Some Body Shop Repurchases

I’m slowly becoming both coconut and Body Shop obsessed. I’ve been trying to get better with moisturising my body and at least doing it every other day. I ran out of the Coconut Milk Body Lotion (review here) last week and used up a travel size tub of the Coconut Body Butter, that I picked up in Leeds.

I love the scent of both of these products so much, and the fact that they last through the day. If you like a light smelling lotion then you probably won’t enjoy using these as the scent is quite strong and it does stay all day, not a problem for me as I love smelling of coconut!

My usual routine with these products is to use the lotion all over every night (and some mornings) and use the Body Butter to target drier areas. I find they both sink in easily, but I don’t generally use the Body Butter in the morning before getting dressed.

While I’m talking about the Body Shop, I really recommend the Love Your Body loyalty cards, which cost £5 to buy, but they normally give you a free product when you purchase it. Before I had one I thought the Body Shop was expensive, but with the loyalty cards you can get some great bargains! My local Body Shop was running a ‘Spend £5 get a Product Up to the Value of £15 Free’ promotion for Love Your Body Card holders so with the 10% discount + the 25% off Body Lotions I managed to snap both of these up for £5.80! Complete bargain!

The Coconut Milk Body Lotion costs £8 and the Coconut Body Butter costs £12.50 and are available instore and online (link)

The Body Shop Coconut Body Lotion: Moisturising for Lazy People

I don’t talk about body products too much on here, mostly because I’m very lazy and have to force myself to moisturise. This is where this Coconut Body Lotion comes in, it has a very light texture I can only really compare it to milk. For extra convenience, it comes in a spray bottle so I only have to spend 2 minutes when I get out of the shower spraying it on and as it is so lightweight you can get dressed straight away and not worry about it sticking to your clothes.

The scent is gorgeous, not too sweet or synthetic and light enough not to interfere with any perfume you wear.

If your like me and are far to lazy for the likes of body butters, then I can’t recommend this enough!

You can find THe Body Shop Coconut Milk Body Lotion instore and online(link) where it retails at £8.00

The Body Shop Vitamin C Microdermabrasion

I picked this up last month when I had one of those £10 off when you spend £25 voucher that the Body Shop give out on their receipts, and needed something else to bump up the total, when stocking up on Banana Conditioner. It is designed for Dull Skin, and all through December/January my skin was a lot duller than usual, and my skin is normally on the dull side, and unless I exfoliate I get a lot of blocked pores.

I used a lot of different exfoliating scrubs, but I have never found one that didn’t either just scratch my skin, or do nothing at all. So for quite a while I just didn’t exfoliate, but something made me want to buy it!

The Body Shop describe it as a ‘Weekly home-spa exfoliation. With vitamin C rich camu camu and Community Trade shea butter’. As you would expect from a Vitamin C product it has a slight orange scent, which isn’t overpowering, and I quite like it. It has a thick and creamy consistency at first but once you start massaging it in it emulsifies with the water really well. As it is a microdermabrasion rather than a scrub it doesn’t have big, visible particles they seem to be more a part of the cream.

This scrub is quite rough, not in a painful way, you can just tell that it’s actually doing something although if you have very sensitive skin you might want to avoid this. I cleanse my face, and then while my face is still damp I take about a grape size amount of this and massage it in circular motions. I do this until the cream is completely dissolved and then rinse it off. My skin is left feeling really clean, and smooth, it doesn’t make my skin red or feeling sensitive which I often experience if i use more conventional scrubs.

As I mentioned in yesterdays posts my skin is a lot less prone to breakouts since I changed my skincare routine, and I would definitely give some credit to this product for that. I feel  like it definitely stops the build up of dead skin cells, and other rubbish that lead to the stubborn black heads and blocked pores I get.

If like me you have become tired of your normal exfoliating products and need something a bit more effective then I would really recommend this. I have been trying a lot of Body Shop products lately and I think it’s really easy to underestimate their skincare, I know until trying this I only went to them for hair care and the odd bottle of the Mango Shower Gel (which smells flippin’ amazing by the way!) but since trying this I will definitely be trying out a few more products.

You can find The Body Shops Vitamin C Microdermabrasion in store or on the Body Shop website where it is priced at £12