Usually when it comes to The Body Shop, you'll find me reaching for the citrus scents - Satsuma is definitely one of my summer favourites. But after attending a lovely bloggers event at my local store I found myself a new addiction perfect for A/W.____________________________________________________ Shea Body Butter £13 (buy it here)
What The Body Shop says:"This super-rich and creamy Body Butter is a feast for the skin. It melts straight in to leave skin feeling soft and smooth. It contains Community Fair Trade shea butter and has a delicious nutty scent." If truth be told, I haven't tried a body butter that I haven't liked yet! - But the Shea is particularly fab. It does all the good things you'd expect from The Body Shop butters, it's creamy, soothes the skin for 24 hour hydration, but best of all.. It smells fantastic!
The body butters can range in consistency from whipped soufflé texture (strawberry) to creamy (almond) to thick (coconut). This product falls in the creamy variety. It is not so thick that it becomes difficult to spread on the skin but is not too runny as well. I would say this is a happy medium for me.
The Shea range is also particularly great for those of us ladies who suffer with very dry skin. A while a go, no matter what crèmes I slathered on my skin, I would get small dry patches on my cheeks, arms and chest. However since swapping to shea products I'm really pleased to say I hardly suffer with dry skin anymore!
I find this range to have a very pleasing perfume smell to it too, and for every day, when built up with several of the Shea products, you really don't need to wear a perfume!
- In fact for those of you who do not like strong scents, I would recommend avoiding this one, it will interfere with your normal perfume if applied afterwards, which is why I recommend buying the body mist or eau de toilette to pair with this butter.
Shea Eau de toilette £8.50 (buy it here)
I bought this one shortly after the Leeds bloggers event, when I was actually looking for a body mist to double up as perfume for Marbella. The Shea eau de toilette was a lovely find, an although the bottle is small, it is a very concentrated version on the shea body mist.
The 30ml bottle lasted a good month of heavy spraying before it finally gave up & I was skipping off to buy some more, which I think I would find a little annoying if it weren't for my complete obsession with this range at the moment!
At £8.50 per small bottle, I fear I can longer lasting value perfume sets from the likes of Next. But with that said. I would still happily buy a new bottle of this every month. Plus if you sign up to the free loyalty card, you do receive discount & stamps towards free gifts.. So really every 5 months I'll get a free bottle!
Since buying the eau de toilette I have tried the body mist too, & whilst that is fantastic teamed with ether the shower crème or body butter (yes I have the whole range now), I must admit, for scent stay power I would without a doubt reach for the Shea eau de toilette. Have you tried any of the Shea range?
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