Sunday, June 29, 2008

Body Shop Spa Wisdom Monoi Moisture Balm




Given description:
Use with other products from the Spa Wisdom range to recreate an indulgent and pampering spa experience in your own home.

Before bathing, pour a few drops of Dreams Home Fragrance Oil into one of our Oil Burners, light a tealight and let the heady scent of tropical flowers fill your bathroom to create a tranquil atmosphere.

Pour a few drops of Monoi Miracle Oil into running bath water to create a wonderfully fragrant atmosphere.

During your bath, mix Monoi Miracle Oil with Purify & Plunge Bath Soak in the palms of your hands to create a richly fragrant and incredibly effective scrub paste to smooth over your skin in circular movements. This action will help stimulate circulation, deep cleanse and remove dead skin cells, leaving skin feeling refreshed, renewed and purified.

When dry, smooth Monoi Moisture Balm over your skin to moisturize.



Instructions: Scoop out with your fingers and massage into your skin as often as required.




This is a moisturizing cream, not lotion. The problem with people is that they always confuse cream with lotion. So im here to enlighten you all. Moisturizing creams are for those with dry skin or those who feel their skin needs a little extra moisturizing. So in a way, creams are more heavy-duty. Their texture is also heavier and thicker, and might feel greasy to some.

Lotions have lighter texture and also absorb quicker into your skin. They can be used conveniently if you are going out soon after, because they absorb quicker than creams and so will not leave an unsightly grease mark on your clothes. Those who do not have very dry skin should use lotions, that should suffice.


Souffles or sorbets are a fancy name for moisturizing creams that have a very light texture, even lighter than lotions. They absorb even quicker and often you can tell that they are souffles/sorbets by just looking at it because the appearance of the cream is more translucent. These are normally supposed to 'refresh' your skin, hence the texture of the cream.



You should be able to tell if a product is a cream, lotion, or souffle/sorbet. They would put it on the packaging and also there should be testers for you to test the product, to see if the texture is what you want and so on.



Well as this particular product im reviewing does not say, it just says it is a balm, let me tell you that this is a cream.




Appearance wise, has the colour of yellow daffodils, maybe a little lighter. I cannot classify the scent at all, it's not floral neither is it citrusy or fruity. I don't particularly like the scent, but my brother says it smells nice so i guess everyone has different opinions. It's not smelly though, thats for sure.




has the texture of a light cream, there is a difference. Some are heavier and thicker, while others are lighter and smoother. This is the latter. An example of a heavy thick cream would be the Crabtree & Evelyn Mango Butter one. Those are really good for very very dry areas, example your feet.



Easy to spread, and leaves your skin smelling lightly scented with the unknown smell. Hahaha, alright. Maybe it is a little floral, i'm not very sure.





The area with the cream on feels slightly greasy/sticky after, so i wouldn't recommend putting this on before going out as it might stain your clothes.





I used up one tub pretty quickly too, which is about 200ml of cream. Well i use it every night before i go to bed.





Costs $38.90SGD from any Bodyshop store. Paragon, Tampines Mall, Heartland Mall and Ngee Ann City all have a Bodyshop.





Rating: ♥♥♥♥ Not bad

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