L'Occitane Verbena Shower Gel

Given description:

Fresh, clean body shampoo loved equally by men and women. Each squeeze of the non-breakable plastic bottle releases the crisp, citrus scent of L'Occitane verbena. Essential oils of verbena, orange, geranium and lemon tree smooth and nurture even the most sensitive skin, and permeate the room with a winning aroma.

What caught me most about this product was the scent. This body gel smells extremely fresh, like lemongrass, citrus fruits, and lemon.




When used, my skin was left lightly perfumed and invigorated. I like the consistency of this gel too, light but not too liquidy. What was good about this was also the fact that it can be easily washed off and really refreshes you. Would be good after a long day perspiring and sweating under the sun.




The scent of this product is also pretty unisex. Guys can definitely use this without the fear of smelling too sweet like a woman.





Rating: ♥♥♥♥

Body Shop strawberry puree body lotion

Given Description:

A light, creamy and easily-absorbed all-over body moisturizer with sumptuously sweet strawberry scent, which helps condition, soften and smooth the skin. It contains strawberry extract and moisturizing Community Trade organic soy oil.

Pump a generous amount of lotion into your hand and smooth onto the skin. Apply after a bath or shower, as often as required.

Since I'm a fan of strawberries and it's scent, i had high expectations for this product. Sadly however, I was quite disappointed.


The lotion came out with a pretty good consistency, but after rubbing it all over my skin, it becomes sort of watery, like it's water-based or something. Anyway, i didn't like the way it spread at all, too thin and too watery. One good thing though, was that it was absorbed really quickly and left NO grease at all. Some moisturizing products claim to leave no greasy residue but they do, whereas for this, this doesn't at all. So you will have no trouble turning doorknobs, or leaving grease stains on seats when you sit down.




The scent wasn't really nice either. Too artificial, and had a weird smell.




Rating: ♥♥ It fulfils ita job as a moisturizer, and leaves no greasy residue, but I wouldn't recommend this nor would i buy this ever again.

L'Occitane Honey & Lemon Foaming Jelly

Given description:

This hair and body shower gel is enriched with pure honey from Provence that gently cleanses the skin, leaving it deliciously perfumed. Lemon essential oil makes hair shinny and radiant.

I totally love the bottle that has such a sweet honeycomb design and lovely golden colour, but what impresses me the most about this product is the scent, which i am very particular about.





This product has a very light honey scent, not much of a lemon smell though. It is not too overpowering, and seriously smells so sweet bees could eat you.




Another great thing i love about this product is that not only can it be used as a body wash, but you can also use this as a shampoo and its moisturizing for both your skin and your body! Doesn't leave it feeling taut and too squeaky clean. I don't like feeling squeaky clean because it feels like moisture has been stripped out of your skin.




This product is great cos if you love the scent (and i'm very sure you will), you can have both your hair and body smelling the same way. It kinda sucks when your body smells weird, due to all the different smells and in the end you just smell like you came out of the washing machine. Okay i think this is a rather weird example.





Soo anyhoo, i really like this body gel, in fact it is one of my favourites.




Rating: ♥♥♥♥ Kudos to L'Occitane for making such a great product again! Never fail to disappoint really.

Davidoff Cool Water Game For Her Body Lotion

There isn't a given description for this so i'll just put in my two-cents worth.

The lotion comes a very sporty looking tube, haha im not sure if theres such a thing as 'sporty looking tube' but it is a good size and very easy to tote around.

The lotion is incredibly light, almost gel like texture and spreads very easily. You only need a small amount for a large area and it blends in abnormally fast, leaving your skin lightly scented and smooth.

Now for the scent, I'm not very good at defining scents i must admit. I really don't know what to say about this scent. Smells very fresh...very nice thats for sure! Haha! If you'd really like to know about this product, i suggest you go to a perfume counter that sells this perfume (not the body lotion) and smell the scent. It smells exactly the same.

If you really like this product and the scent, you can layer the lotion underneath the perfume, which would really make the scent stronger and last longer.

Can't remember the retailing price.

Rating: ♥♥♥ ♥/ really good as a lotion because it doesn't leave any sticky residue all over your body.

Benefit Eye Bright

Given Description:

This pale pink, brightening stick is a purse-sized pick-me-up for tired eyes.

To use: For an instant wide-awake look, apply a stroke to the inner and outer corners of each eye and blend.

This pencil is wider than most eyeliners, though this is not an eyeliner itself, and is about 11.5 cm (4 1/2 inches). The wooden pencil is easy to hold and grip, and it kind of reminds me of a crayon actually! It's also quite cute, pink font against a black background.



I got this because even though i do not have obvious eye circles, i still have them and i was looking for a way to conceal them. I do not think this is meant to be an under eye circle concealer. It's just something to brighten it up.




The colour is pale pink, with very slight shimmer in it. If i had not looked closer at it, i would have thought it was a pure matte pink pencil. I followed the directions and applied a little of this onto the inner and outer corner of the eye. The pencil is creamy, and comes out easily on to your skin. I applied this onto one eye only, to see if if there was a significant difference and blended. Then i checked the other eye and noticed one thing.... the eye i had applied this to still looked the same as the other eye. There was no significant difference.




Then i decided to line the bottom part of my eye with it. Bad decision. It wasn't very easy to blend, because i do not have a very oily under eye area so i kept tugging at my skin while trying to blend, which is a no-no. Tugging at your eye area incessantly will cause it to wrinkle and age very quickly. After my unsuccessful attempt to blend the stark pink line, i compared both eyes. Now my eye looked smaller than the other.




This was honestly not what i expected when i got this product. I would say this was a waste of my money, which could have been spent on better products.




I got this at the benefit counter in Tangs for $41 SGD. Definitely not worth it.



Rating: ♥ Nothing special at all.

L'Occitane Crushed-Grape Polish

Given Description:

Enriched with organic grape juice from Provence, fine particles of grape seed and walnut shell (naturally exfoliating) and grape seed oil, Crushed-Grape Polish gently sloughs away dead skin cells, stimulates microcirculation and helps eliminate cellular waste.

Massage into dry or slightly wet skin, using a circular motion. Concentrate on areas that tend to be rough (elbows, knees, soles of feet). Rinse thoroughly. Use once or twice a week.

This grape line in L'Occitane is supposed to be part of some 30-day grape cure. Apparently the Grape Range is used in an intensive detoxifying and revitalising 30-day program, where you only eat grapes to deeply cleanse your body. Wow, thats a long time to be eating grapes isn't it? I think you'd be thoroughly sick of grapes by the time you're done.




Anyway, i didn't do the grape cure because i simply do not have the discipline nor do i believe in just feeding myself grapes for a long period and nothing else. I think i would just collapse from not eating any other food.



I decided to get this scrub because it smelt AMAZING and the packaging was very pretty. The opening of this product is a silver screw cap at the base. You turn it anti-clockwise, and squeeze. The product would then come out. It's not a cap which you can totally remove.




The beads were a little too fine for me. I prefer stronger rougher scrubs but it's really up to your preference. This scrub has fine scrubbers in it, and it's very gentle, though i feel it was quite difficult to scrub my feet with such a gentle scrub. The scent is great. Smells a little like grape, though not in the red wine type of way.




Scrub in a circular motion all round your body, concentrating on the rough areas like the knees, elbows etc. I recommend you wash off with cold water, very refreshing, unless you're in a cold country. In Singapore, it's sunny everyday so a refreshing cold shower is always needed :)


This leaves your skin feeling smooth and soft. Because its such a fine scrub, i use quite a lot of it each time round. I exfoliate twice a week sometimes, and if im feeling lazy, than once a week. I would recommend at least once a week.




Costs more than $40 SGD i think? I'm really unsure of the price so it's best you check it out at the L'Occitane stores. There are two in Ngee Ann City.




rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 stars, but i would have preferred a rougher scrub

Body Shop Tea Tree Oil

Given Description:

Best if you want to: Combat and soothe the first signs of a blemish with a natural, targeted treatment that you can dab onto your skin.

How it works:

Triple-action organic Community Trade tea tree oil, which is naturally antiseptic and soothing, controls oil, combats existing blemishes and prevents new ones without over-drying skin.
Pre-blended formulation contains pure tea tree oil diluted to 15%.
Tea tree oil has been used for centuries for its soothing and refreshing antiseptic properties.

I'm sure this is just pure tea tree oil without any other plant extracts or whatever because it certainly smells like pure tea tree oil. I guess this would be considered rather smelly by those who do not like the scent of tea tree oil, but it smells totally fine to me.


One thing i must commend about this product is it's child safety lock. The cap has to be pushed down to be able to turn it. I realised it's mostly products containing tea tree oil that have a child safety lock, so i guess it must be really fatal when ingested? I don't know about that. Just don't try to drink it please.



The mouth of this product is not very large. You may not be able to tell from the picture, but when you unscrew it, there is this tiny tube there from which the product comes out. It's not a very large opening, which is good because every drop is precious. The bottle is only about 10 ml, so really every drop makes a difference.
Because it is only 10ml, and if you have a lot of blemishes, you will find that you use this product up pretty quickly.




The tiny opening makes it easy to apply this product. I normally drop one or two drops onto a small bit of cotton wool and dab the tea tree oil onto my blemishes this way. It's not advisable to use tissue paper, because the tissue will just absorb the tea tree oil and not leave any for you to dab onto your blemishes, which is a huge waste. The tea tree oil might sting a little at first, but you'll get used to it.



After using this, i found my pimples reduced significantly in size and gradually just disappeared. However i would advise you not to apply this product on any other part of your face, because it is VERY drying. Let me just warn you about that. It is supposed to dry up your pimples so when you put it on spots that do not have pimples, you're gonna have really dry skin.




You can get this at Bodyshop shops at i think $14 SGD? I'm not very sure but i know it's definitely less than $20. Try not to spill any, because this bottle contains very little only.




Rating: ♥♥♥♥