Bath and Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom Shower Gel

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My love for shower gels is never going to end.  One of my most favourite brands, “Bath and Body Works” makes amazing shower gels and lotions and this is one of them.  It was a gift from an aunt who lives in the United States.  She always brings lots of body lotions and shower gels and that too mostly from this brand only.

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Product Description:
Our Signature Shower Gel is newly supercharged with benefits that make it the world’s best daily luxury. It has been reformulated to provide the ultimate shower experience, pampering you with a luxurious lather of moisturizing aloe vera and nourishing oils. It gently cleanses, softens and fragrances your skin.

• Our exclusive, award-winning Japanese Cherry Blossom fragrance is a seductive and mysterious floral scent, inspired by the exotic gardens of Japan
• Key fragrance notes: Asian Pear, Kyoto Rose, Mimosa Petals, Himalayan Cedarwood

Ingredients:

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How To Use:

Pour a button-sized drop on a damp washcloth or mesh sponge, work into a lather and smooth this over skin. Rinse clean.

Packaging:

It comes in 2 sizes.  One is the travel sized 88 ml bottle and the other is 295 ml.  I have both.  It is a transparent plastic bottle with a flip cap.  I like these travel-size bottles very much.

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Price:

It is priced at $5 for 88 ml and $10 for 295 ml.The bigger bottle is definitely value for money.

My Experience with Bath and Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom Shower Gel:

I like the fragrance of this shower gel.  It is a very mild and soothing scent of fresh flowers, but for those who prefer strong fragrance, you may not like this.  It is not sticky and does not leave the skin slippery.  It gives a very fresh feeling. A little goes a long way.  Bath and Body Works products are of very good quality and I would buy them always if they were so easily available in India as in the US.

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This can also be used as a bubble bath in bath tubs.

Pros of Bath and Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom Shower Gel:

• Good fragrance.
• Decently priced.
• Very good, quality packaging.
• Nonsticky.
• Travel-size bottles are available for trial.
• Not tested on animals.

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Cons of Bath and Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom Shower Gel:

• Non-availability in India is the only con for Bath and Body Works products.

IMBB Rating:

4/5

Would I Recommend Bath and Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom Shower Gel?

Yes, those of you who have friends and relatives in the US, can get this through them easily.

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The Body Shop Vanilla Bath and Shower Gel Review

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Ola Bonita Chica’s!

I’ve got another special treat for you keeping in mind my travelling theme that I’m focussing on right now. Travelling can get so exhausting and you need something to keep yourself refreshed and give yourself a burst of energy. Now, I’m sorry I give so much away in the start of my reviews regarding if a product is good or bad, but I just get excited if something works for me- I just want to spill all the good stuff! Or vice versa if something is so crap, I just want to warn you straightaway. So this Body Shop Bath and Shower Gel works and has been wonderful, I request you to read on to find out why!

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Product Description

My travel friendly version of The Body Shop’s Vanilla Bath and Shower gel comes in a clear plastic container. The colour of the shower gel is not the most girly or inviting but it is so much better than it looks! The flip top lid secures quite nicely and this will not spill in your suitcase or bag. But if you want to carry this with you in your hand luggage anywhere in the world then you absolutely can, because of its handy dandy size! And because it is transparent you know how much you have left before it runs out! These bottles can also be cleaned and re-purposed.

Product Claims:

This soap-free bath and shower gel has a deliciously sweet vanilla fragrance.  Lather rich, sweet vanilla scent.

Ingredients:

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Price: INR 225 for 60 ml of product.

My Experience With The Body Shop Vanilla Bath and Shower Gel:

This is possibly the one product where I have studied the ingredients in super detail! I’ve become used to being disappointed when a wonderful beauty product has many harmful ingredients, and this is exactly one of those. But let me not be a party pooper and start with the good stuff instead. So as I mentioned, the colour of this shower gel does not remind me of vanilla in any way but it gets this colour due to the caramel added in it as a colour agent. This does not add to the scent of the body wash in any way though. I love that this is a soap free formulation so it does not dry my skin out at all. In fact it is rather hydrating! It does lather very nicely, more so if used with a Loofah. You only need very little to use for a shower or bath, which is why I really like this particular shower gel when I travel because I can get so much use out of a smaller sized piece.

The fragrance of this is beautiful, one of the best Body Shop fragrances so far and I’m on first name basis with the Body Shop’s sales people’s children so trust me! I’ve tried so many of their shower gels! The smell of this is warm, comforting, sweet and very vanilla-ey, there’s nothing artificial or fake about it. It is just heavenly and it is one of those rare shower gels where the scent lasts you for a few hours even after you shower. These perfume laden formulations can sometimes cause me trouble but this formulation has not irritated my dry sensitive skin in any way.

The lather as well, is luxurious and rich and the important thing is that this shower gel cleanses very nicely after a long trip, getting all the grime and dirt off you. Plus the fragrance is bound to relax! It’s not nauseatingly vanilla and leaves your skin soft afterwards. The bad thing about this and all body shop shower gels is the hard plastic packaging which is difficult to squeeze once these bottles are half way used. You just have to turn them upside down and wait for gravity to do its job and then squeeze to get the product out.

Not to burst your bubble now, but unfortunately let us get to the serious cons of this product. It contains sulphates and parabens in its formulation. But this is a rare product as I’ve seen many parabens in it. Ethyl, Methyl, Isobutyl, Butyl and Propylparaben. You name it, it’s got it. This is really sad because it is a fantastic product otherwise! I mean it even has sunscreen in it and that is pretty cool because I have never come across a shower gel with such qualities.

Pros of The Body Shop Vanilla Bath and Shower Gel:

• Leak proof packaging.
• Can be carried in hand luggage.
• Soap free.
• Lathers very luxuriously.
• Beautiful fragrance.

Cons of The Body Shop Vanilla Bath and Shower Gel:

• Contains too many parabens.
• Contains sulphates.
• Difficult to squeeze the product out once this is used up half the way.

Would I Repurchase Or Recommend The The Body Shop Vanilla Bath And Shower Gel?

How could I possibly recommend something with so many parabens in it?
My conscience would never allow it! Sadly, I will probably be throwing this out even though I have only used it three times. I should have checked the ingredients before buying it. It has too many parabens which, for a shop like The Body Shop is strange because you expect everything in there to be natural and free of harsh chemicals.

IMBB Rating
1/5 solely due to the parabens in this formulation, otherwise it really deserves a 5/5 for how good it is!

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Rituals Foaming Shower Gel Sensation ~ scented body product review :: Now Smell This

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Rituals is a Dutch bath-and-body company founded in 2000, but since it only began selling its products in the United States about six months ago — first at Barneys, then in a Rituals storefront in New York's SoHo neighborhood — I didn't have the chance to try them until this winter. The Rituals product line is extensive, so I started with one of its best-selling products: Foaming Shower Gel Sensation, a new twist on an everyday shower item, available in six scents.

Whereas most shower-friendly body cleansers are thick liquids sold in bottles with flip-tops or pump dispensers, Rituals' shower gel is packaged in a metal canister like a shaving product. It acts like a shaving product, too, turning from a stream of translucent gel into a fluffy, foamy lather when it hits a damp washcloth or a mesh puff. (I prefer the latter for all my shower needs.) I'm not sure what the benefit of this foaming technology is; maybe it's just a gimmick? As a body product, this gel-foam is effective and seems gentle on the skin, but I wouldn't be recommending it if I didn't enjoy the fragrances, too.

Zensation is a very popular scent in the Rituals product catalogue; it's inspired by the Japanese cherry blossom, and we all know that cherry blossom body products tend to be hits. This seems like a nice enough take on the theme, with a fruity cherry note and a powdery-milky rice note. Although I must say that I'm just not a fan of cherry blossom products in general, I prefer this interpretation to the one sold by Bath & Body Works. (As Victoria recently mentioned in an article for the Financial Times, cherry blossom fragrances are never quite true to the real thing.)

Yogi Flow, however, is right up my olfactive alley. This blend contains sweet almond oil for its moisturizing effect and rosa damascena oil for its scent (as well as synthetic fragrance ingredients); the result is a bright, raspberry-tinged rose that fills the steamy air in the shower and lingers on the skin. It's not as rich and complex as the scent of Lush's Rose Jam, but since Rose Jam was only a limited edition, I'm happy to find something that I like enough to use as a substitute. I'm even tempted to return to the Rituals shop to pick up some matching body oil and lotion.

Hammam Delight was a last-second choice; it seems to be part of the Rituals "masculine" collection (darker packaging with blue accents, right?), so I initially wavered. I'm glad I ended up grabbing it, because its rosemary and eucalyptus scent is intensely aromatic and has turned out to be an excellent sinus-clearer for my seasonal pollen allergies. I also like having a more herbal shower product around for the warmer weather, whenever it comes.

I have to confess that when I first glanced over the Rituals line, I thought it was a bunch of Molton Brown knock-offs; now, having tried a few products and looked more closely at the boutique and the website, I can say that Rituals does have some interesting products to try and that I definitely prefer its fragrance blends to Molton Brown's signature scents, most of which have never quite agreed with me. Not to mention that the Rituals price point is lower...and now that I can easily try and buy more products from this company, I'll most likely be back for more.

Rituals Foaming Shower Gel Sensation in Zensation, Yogi Flow and Hammam Delight, as well as three other scents, is available in 200 ml ($15) or a $6 "mini" 50 ml ($6) sizes at the Rituals website.

10 Best Body Scrubs Available In India

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Winters make your skin dry and look flaky. Bring the best out of your skin by scrubbing them on a regular basis. Though we never forget to scrub our facial skin, we tend to miss out scrubbing our body. Your body must also look as young and glowing as your face does, hence it is essential to scrub your body too.

Scrubbing gives your body a buffed and polished look. It not only gives your body a good exfoliation by getting rid of dead skin cells and clogged pores, but also increases the flow of blood with the circular massage motions. Remember to pay special attention to the knees and elbows as the skin at these parts appears dry usually.

Ubtan is the best homemade body scrub that will give you a glowing and healthy looking skin. It is made from wheat bran, gram flour, curd or milk cream and a pinch of turmeric. As this is a time taking process, we can opt for drugstore body scrubs. Here are some of the best body scrubs for women in India and are worth giving a try.

1. The Body Shop Chocomania Body Scrub:

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This brand has to top the list of body scrubs. Though they are expensive body scrubs, they give a complete value for the money spent. They leave your skin buttery smooth and glowing right after the first use. With an extravagantly chocolatey smell, The Body Shop Chocomania Body Scrub excellently gets rid of the dead skin cells and stimulates your skin’s microcirculation. The real cocoa butter and organic cane sugar in the scrub makes your skin softer and smoother.

Rating: 5/5

2. Victoria’s Secret Romantic Wish Stimulating Body Scrub:

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The second in the list comes the Victoria’s Secret Romantic Wish Stimulating Body Scrub. This scrub excellently buffs off the dry and dead skin cells from your body with its natural exfoliating sugar crystals from a Secret Garden. It creates luxurious and fragrant foam that cleanses your body thoroughly leaving behind a fragrance that lasts long. The super innovative formula of Victoria’s Secret Romantic Wish Stimulating Body Scrub makes it easy to be used on wet skin in shower. The scrub is a smooth blend of Pomegranate, Freesia and Cucumber Blossom.

Rating: 4.7/5

[ Read: Body Polishing at Home ]

3. L’occitane Almond Body Scrub:

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Coming to the third most loved body scrub by beauties around the country, it’s none other than the Loccitane Almond Body Scrub. Enhanced with crushed shells and almond oil, the scrub just melts into your skin. This foaming Almond Shower Scrub cleanses softly at the same time exfoliates all the dead cells and impurities. Packed in a tube with a convenient twist open top, the Loccitane Almond Body Scrub leaves a fresh and delicate fragrance of almond flowers.

Rating: 4/5

4. The Body Shop Strawberry Body Scrub:

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Another excellent scrub from The Body shop, The Body Shop Strawberry Body Scrub is gel-based scrub with crushed walnut shells and kiwi seeds. With a subtle strawberry scent, the scrub gently cleanses and exfoliates dead skin cell and dirt from your body leaving behind a shiny, soft and healthy skin. Ideal for normal skin, The Body Shop Strawberry Body Scrub is excellent for everyday use.

Rating: 4.5/5

5. Fab India Neem Tulsi Face and Body Gel Scrub:

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Specially formulated for the daily use, Fab India Neem Tulsi Face and Body Gel Scrub gently exfoliates the skin. The active ingredients keep you revitalized and invigorated for the entire day. The natural combination of Tulsi and neem works gently on your skin and exfoliates the dead skin cells giving you a healthy looking skin.

Rating: 4/5

6. Clinique Sparkle Skin Body Exfoliating Cream:

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An ideal scrub with the extracts of grapefruit, lemon, spearmint and menthol, Clinique Sparkle Skin Body Exfoliating Cream gives you a radiant looking skin. The menthol extracts in the scrub gives you a cool, tingly sensation, unlike most exfoliators. Though the cream doesn’t lather much, it works wonders in cleansing the skin.

Rating 4/5

7. Clarins Toning Body Polisher:

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With rosemary, rosewood and mint essential oils and crystals of salt and sugar, Clarins Toning Body Polisher not only gives you a radiant looking skin, but also makes it toned. Its soft and not too coarse texture works excellently on your sensitive skin. Clarins Toning Body Polisher works excellently to get rid of flakes, impurities and dry skin cells.

Rating: 4.5/5

8. Mannings Lemongrass and Ginger Spa Exfoliating Body Scrub:

Mannings Lemongrass and Ginger Spa Exfoliating Body Scrub is a unique product that gently cleanses and exfoliates your skin. Enriched with refreshing lemongrass and ginger spa, this scrub gives you a soft and fresh looking skin. With the goodness of ginger essential oils, seaweed as well as aloe vera extracts, the Body scrub imparts a healthy glow to your skin. The walnut shell powder in Mannings Lemongrass and Ginger Spa Exfoliating Body Scrub gives your soft and smooth skin.

Rating: 3/5

9. Shiseido Refining Body Exfoliator:

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A must have body exfoliator for sensitive skinned beauties, Shiseido Refining Body Exfoliator offers the right amount of scrubbing it needs. It works gently on the skin and removes dead skin cells with specially designed micro beads that leave behind a smooth and moisturized skin. Rightly referred as a high-performance body scrub that excellently polishes the skin, Shiseido Refining Body Exfoliator is developed using the subtle Japanese scent KUROHO and cherry blossom fragrance.

Rating: 4.5/5

10. Vaadi Walnut and Apricot Face and Body Scrub:

If you are looking for an organic body scrub that effectively fights skin ageing, then Vaadi Walnut and Apricot Face and Body Scrub is the right option. Give your skin an enriched cleansing and it exfoliates all the dirt and impurities clogging your pores. Formulated with apricot and walnut, the scrub leaves behind a fresh, soft and younger looking radiant skin. The unique Vaadi Walnut and Apricot Face and Body Scrub also protects your skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays, thereby preventing your skin from any damages.

Rating: 4/5

Let us know which is your favorite body scrub!!!

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