Wednesday, October 25, 2017

The Body Shop Shea Hand Cream 30 ml Review




Ingredients:

Aqua/Water/Eau, Glycerin, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil/Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Sodium Polyacrylate, Parfum/Fragrance, Cetyl Alcohol, Pentaerythrityl Distreate, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Glucoside, Glycine Soja Oil/Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Orbignya Oleifera Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter/Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Myristamidopropyl PG-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate, Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Myristyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, Linalool, Coumarin, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Limonene, Citric Acid, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Sulfate, Caramel, CI 19140/Yellow 5.

I try to mark the sunscreen ingredients in red and other possible irritants in lilac. Ingredients thought to be good and useful for skin I mark green.  Learning as I go, google is my friend etc...





Thoughts:

The cream leaves a bit silicony feeling, it can't be seen but you can feel it

Feels like the cream disappears after you put it on: not in a way that it absorbs and moisturizes the skin, it just disappears and soon it feels like you have dry hands again

The fragrance lingers a lot, unreasonably sweet and strong for a cream like this, I feel like I can't put it on in a bus or a train, in case someone has asthma or something

EDIT: After writing this review my thumb started to itch very badly and it continued hours, I don't know if Shea Hand Cream is to blame, but I did slather it on my hands very liberally



Moisturizes a bit, gives a moment of relief at least

Doesn't leave the skin sticky

Tube's design is good, easy to get the product out in exact amounts

Size is good to carry in a bag (but can you add it on your hands in public anyway?)


* So, this hand cream was a bit of an disappointment. I did try it in the store and there it felt just fine? I think it's so easy to be tricked to buy something when you test things quickly in a busy environment with lots of different smells, not to mention the sales lady hovering over your shoulder

* I'm still not turning against all the Body Shop's hand creams as I haven't tried and compared them

I'm just puzzled how shea hand cream can be made this bad because shea butter is so wonderful on its own!



Price: 

6.70 €, I think on sale 5 € / 30 ml

Bought from: 

The Body Shop store

Buy again? 

No.

Worth the money? 

No! Overpriced and bad hand cream in general.


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