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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Frugal Friday – Champneys Spa Indulgence Bath & Body

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Earlier this spring, Champneys, the world-class U.K. spa favored by Princess Diana, Daniel Craig, David Beckham & Kate Moss launched their luxurious products in the US! Now you can be pampered like a royal for the price of a pauper! Champneys Spa Indulgence bath and body line, delivers the holistic benefits of visiting a Champneys spa in the comfort of your own home. The price conscious line includes body lotions, hand and nail creams, shower gels and various moisturizers that range from $7.99 to $12.99 and are available at Target, Target.com and ShopBootsUSA.com.

There are four delicious scents:

•  Mediterranean Bliss – white heart floral, coconut and olive leaf
• Oriental Opulence -exotic patchouli, honey and coconut
• Exotic Retreat – olive leaf, mango and coconut
• Citrus Blush – an uplifting aroma of  lemon, orange peel and cardamom

I have a small huge addiction to body scrubs and the Mediterranean Bliss Body Glow was the first product in the line that I tried–read my review on A Girls’ Gotta Spa. After loving the body scrub, I couldn’t get enough of the scent and then tried the Mediterranean Bliss Shower Crème and Body Hydrator.

Champneys describes the fragrance like this:

An opulent fragrance with a white floral of tuberose, jasmine, lily of the valley and white rose petals with spicy exotic ylang ylang and petunia on a warm combination of sugar cane, vanilla, fresh ginger and pink pepper. Fruity twists of cassis and apple entwined with a Mediterranean citrus accord of bergamot, mandarin and neroli oil create a vibrant top note while precious woods, patchouli, sandalwood and vetiver add richness to a base of amber, moss and musk. 

 Mediterranean Bliss Shower Crème is a thick, rich cream that lathers like laundry detergent in a water foundation. Unlike detergents though, its creamy consistency leaves your skin silky smooth and soft to the touch. Your skin feels so moisturized after using this shower crème. Shower crème is a very good description for this product, it is not your run-of-the-mill shower gel—it’s much richer and more luxurious than that. I use this after the body scrub for an indulgent treat for my skin. I adore it!

Key ingredients:

• Olive Leaf – contains flavonoids which are effective antioxidants
• Fig Milk – known for its restorative properties
• Green Tomato – supports the cells for strong blood circulation, also an effective antioxidant
• Mango Butter – an effective high foaming cleanser that leaves skin soft

The Mediterranean Bliss Body Hydrator is equally amazing and I love it just as much! I like to use it just before bed and breathe in the light fragrance as I’m drifting off. This has a lightweight texture, is non-oily and absorbs quickly leaving no greasy residue. There is also a body cream that is much thicker, but I think I actually prefer the lighter weight hydrator.

Key Ingredients:

•  Olive Leaf – contains flavonoids which are effective antioxidants
• Fig Milk – known for its restorative properties

Packaging is as stylish and classy as you can get with plastic. The gold accented jars and tubes look expensive and make a nice addition to any bathroom.

I have a few other products to try from the line in the Exotic Retreat scent (a favorite of Kelly Osbourne, I’m told) but I am SO smitten with the Mediterranean Bliss scent I can’t imagine switching. It lingers on the skin without being overpowering. The scent really does invoke images of white washed domed buildings with gauzy curtains billowing in the breeze overlooking seaside cliffs. Someday! The Mediterranean,  Greece especially, is on my bucket list!

I can express enough how impressed I am with the Champneys Spa Indulgence Bath and Body line. If you’re looking for a luxurious and yes, even a little decadent treat at a budget price, the Champneys Spa Indulgence line may be just right for you as well as YOUR royal family!

Overall: The moisture-rich formulas, effective ingredients and the lovely scents are outstanding. This world class collection of extravagant bath and body products is worth much more than the pauper’s price!

Prime Beauty Grade: A

Champneys Spa Indulgence line is available at Target, Target.com and ShopBootsUSA.com.

Global Bath and Shower Products Market Report 2015-2019 - Research and Markets

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qgfnzv/global_bath_and) has announced the addition of the "Global Bath and Shower Products Market 2015-2019" report to their offering.

The global bath and shower products market to reach a market value of around USD 15 billion by the end of 2019.

Shower products dominated the market during 2014 with a market share of around 70%. The report predicts this segment to retain its leadership until the end of 2019 growing at a rate of around 4%. This segment includes products such as shower gels, shower creams, exfoliates, body shampoo, mousses, loofah, bath brush, body polishers, and foot scrubs.

The increasing awareness about health and hygiene is the primary driver for the growth of this market. Consumers are being exposed to reliable information about the various bath products through the internet, television, and other sources of information. The rise in living standards and income are also leading consumers to opt for more expensive and aesthetically appealing bath and shower products with different fragrances and effective ingredients.

The increased demand for organic products is also anticipated to contribute to the market growth during the forecast period. Organic shampoo manufacturers are focusing on developing new products by adding value to the basic cleansing action of shampoos. For instance, dry shampoos are available either in spray or powder formats and are used to absorb dirt and oil on the hair and scalp. They save time and effort, and also help in retaining the natural hair oils that are washed out by standard shampoos.

Europe accounted for the largest market share of around 48% during 2014. The evolving buying patterns of consumers is the primary growth driver of the market in this region. The growing affinity of the consumers towards organic and natural bath and shower products with specific ingredients has helped to boost sales of these products.

Product segmentation and analysis of the bath and shower products market

• Shower products
• Liquid bath products
• Bath additives
• Bar soaps
  

Segmentation by retail format and analysis of the bath and shower products market

The supermarkets and hypermarkets segment accounted for 53% of the market share during 2014. Supermarkets store numerous bath and shower products providing consumers with a variety of choices for purchasing.

The top five vendors in the market are

• Johnson & Johnson
• L'Oreal
• P&G
• Unilever
• Colgate-Palmolive

Other vendors in the market include

• Avon
• Bath and Body Works
• Beiersdorf
• Coty
• Estee Lauder
• Henkel
• Kao
• L'Occitane
• Lush
• Revlon
• Soap and Glory

Key Topics Covered:

Part 01: Executive summary

Part 02: Scope of the report

Part 03: Market research methodology

Part 04: Introduction

Part 05: Market landscape

Part 06: Market segmentation by product

Part 07: Market segmentation by retail formats

Part 08: Geographical segmentation

Part 09: Key leading countries

Part 10: Market drivers

Part 11: Impact of drivers

Part 12: Market challenges

Part 13: Impact of drivers and challenges

Part 14: Market trends

Part 15: Vendor landscape

Part 16: Key vendor analysis

Part 17: Appendix

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qgfnzv/global_bath_and

Shower gel better than soap? It just won't wash

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• Eight out of ten people wash themselves with gels costing up to £4 a bottle
• Tesco has 94 gel brands on sale, each with its own name, ingredients and unique smell
  

By David Derbyshire for MailOnline
Updated: 16:16 BST, 17 October 2011

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Cleaning up: Gels first appeared in British bathrooms in the Seventies. Today some 200million bottles are sold in Britain every year

Whoever invented shower gel must lie awake at night — no doubt in a gold-plated, four-poster bed — chuckling at the audacity of it all.

Here is a product that is expensive, packed full of man-made chemicals, difficult to use and wasteful. And yet, thanks to the persuasive power of marketing, bottles of it sit proudly in almost every bathroom in the land.

Once, we cleaned ourselves with bars of long-lasting soap that cost the equivalent of a few pence a week. Today, more than eight out of ten people wash themselves with gels costing up to £4 a bottle.

Not that shower gel manufacturers admit they are involved in the business of washing, of course. Instead, they sell their wares as revitalising foams, honey shower milks and rebalancing body experiences.

Imperial Leather’s Japanese Spa Foam Burst is, it claims, designed to help you wake up in the morning. Palmolive’s Absolute Relax is supposed to send you to sleep.

You will struggle to find a shower gel that admits what it is really intended for: as a way of removing dirt, sweat and grease. Long gone are the days of explicit adverts for Lifebuoy — the soap that said ‘No to BO’.

But if Britain has gone crazy for shower gel, with an estimated 200 million bottles sold in the UK each year, there are signs of rebellion.

Former Tory MP, television presenter and newspaper columnist Matthew Parris recently went on the offensive.

In a passionate attack against pointless toiletries, he highlighted the design flaws of shower gels.

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Gels have come a long way since PZ Cussons, the makers of Imperial Leather for a long time regarded as the traditional hard soap for middle-class families

He pointed out that most of the bottles don’t stand upright on curved soap dishes, or they leak when hanging from their plastic hooks. They are difficult to open, easy to spill and hard to apply (how do you use shower gel to wash your feet?)

And most of the gel squirted into the user’s hands slides to the floor to be washed down the drain.

While the secret of soap-making goes back to at least the Ancient Babylonians in 2800 BC, when animal fat was mixed with the ashes of wood fires and melted, the first liquid soap was patented in 1865

Parris — who stopped using shampoo years ago and who claims his hair has never been cleaner — estimates that millions of gallons of gel are washed away unused every year.

Despite these flaws, Britain’s love affair with shower gel is going strong. Tesco, at last count, had 94 brands on sale, each with its own name, ingredients and unique smell.

Most sane people would struggle to come up with 94 different conventional fragrances for toiletries. But the clever people at Unilever and Cussons have got round that by persuading consumers that what they really want to smell like is food: thus we can wash ourselves with Chocolate and Mint shower gel, Milk and Honey shower creme, or Cranberry and Honey shower scrubs.

Evidently, gels have come a long way since PZ Cussons, the makers of Imperial Leather — for a long time regarded as the traditional hard soap for middle-class families — introduced its first ‘Luxury Shower Gel’ in 1978.

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Former Tory MP Matthew Parris recently highlighted the design flaws of shower gels

Gels were, in part, a response to a change in bathroom habits that saw showers growing in popularity as our lives became busier and we all became more aware of the need to use water sparingly.

But the rise of shower gels can’t be explained simply by the move from the twice-weekly bath to the daily shower. After all, showers had already become a staple of homes by the Seventies, and for at least a decade after that, most people were happy with soap — or occasionally the more exotic ‘soap on a rope’.

The secret of their success lies in the fact that while they are cheap to manufacture, they are easy to brand as a luxury. By selling them as modern, convenient and indulgent, cosmetic companies cleaned up.

While the secret of soap-making goes back to at least the Ancient Babylonians in 2800 BC, when animal fat was mixed with the ashes of wood fires and melted, the first liquid soap — the forerunner of today’s shower gels — was patented in 1865.

Modern gels are more complicated to make. But their basic ingredient, a detergent that sticks to grease and water, is similar to the detergent in hard soap bars.

'Most of the differences between brands are trivial in terms of what they do functionally — removing dirt and grease. But the real difference — and this is the genius of marketing — is how those small differences, like the fragrance and the associations that come with that fragrance, can be used to create something more than the product'

In order to remain thick, perfumed and coloured, a typical shower gel must contain around 20 chemicals, some man-made, others derived from plants. It will have a couple of plant-based detergents, an array of perfumes, salt to thicken it, glycerine — a clear, sticky liquid used in cough mixtures and icing on cakes — to make the gel silky, film-forming agents, lactic acid (found in sour milk to counteract the alkali and make it pH- neutral), preservatives, agents that reduce static in human hair and natural plant extracts.

Most of these plant extracts have very little practical purpose and are just for marketing purposes so that the gels can have fancy names.

And marketing is what it is all about. From the earliest days of industrially produced soap, manufacturers realised that to sell more soap, they needed to persuade Britons to become more ‘hygienic’: the more people washed, the bigger the profits.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some of the earliest and most successful advertising campaigns were for soaps.

Costly: Today, more than eight out of ten people wash themselves with gels costing up to £4 a bottle

The English company Lever Brothers created Lifebuoy in 1895 and sold it as an antiseptic soap. The company also invented the term BO for body odour. Pears devised a sophisticated transparent soap and launched the yearly search for Miss Pears.

Yet no marketing campaign for soap was enough to fend off the advance of shower gels.

Those who prefer gels say they are happy to put up with the extra expense for the sake of convenience: unlike soap, they don’t leave scum or mess around the shower, and small amounts go a long way.

But for many, they are a victory of marketing over common sense.

One of the UK’s top marketing gurus, who has worked with many gel manufacturers, said: ‘Most of the differences between brands are trivial in terms of what they do functionally — removing dirt and grease.

‘But the real difference — and this is the genius of marketing — is how those small differences, like the fragrance and the associations that come with that fragrance, can be used to create something more than the product.

‘That value to the brand is real. If a product has associations of being refreshing in the morning or relaxing in the evening, it can be a genuine bonus for the consumer; it might help people feel relaxed or refreshed.

‘Some of that association is intrinsic in the ingredients of gel, but much of it is created through advertising.’

So are we being taken for a ride by the marketing types? The answer is probably yes. But then, how many of us would really want to go back to using half a bar of soap in the shower when we could be reaching for a bottle of that oh-so fragrant Japanese Spa Foam Burst?