Avon Naturals Lemon and Lime Body Spray

...love to try out the Avon Naturals range. I bought the lemon and lime body spray a couple of months ago for £2.50, although this item is quite often available as part of their buy two, get one free offers. The bottle holds 125ml.

I like to have a supply of body sprays, but do normally go for the bog standard aerosol type product. In the summer I get through a huge amount of body sprays, which I use in conjunction with deodorant, body ...
...smelled like a toilet pan.

Avon – you’ve failed me. I won’t be buying this product again, unless it’s to spray round the toilet rim. I had to bath after using it, so it has failed miserably and is now in the bin.
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Before I begin, I would like to state that this is not the correct picture with this product!

I’m a bit of a fruit scented freak, and love to try out the Avon Naturals range. I bought the lemon and lime body spray a couple of months ago for £2.50, although this item is quite often available as part of their buy two, get one free offers. The bottle holds 125ml.

I like to have a supply of body sprays, but do normally go for the bog standard aerosol type product. In the summer I get through a huge amount of body sprays, which I use in conjunction with deodorant, body cream and body lotion.

The Lemon and Lime Body Spray is slightly different, in that it is a pump action dispenser type spray, covered by a plastic cap. The bottle is thin, tall and made of clear plastic, through which the spray can be seen.

On shaking the bottle, the body spray is very watery, and although the appearance is slightly masked by the packaging, it looks to be a very pale green colour, similar to lime juice.

It is slightly difficult to describe the smell of the spray. After removing the clear plastic top, I had a sniff and was not overly impressed. Although there is a citrus-like smell, I would not personally say that it is specifically lemon and lime. It has a slightly chemical aroma and smells more of a toilet cleaner than a body spray.

I decided to forge ahead, despite my misgivings and gave the top a squirt.

The pump action dispenser emits far too much of the spray, and as if this is not bad enough, it then takes an age to dry, so this would not be appropriate to liberally spray if you’re in a hurry to get dressed and go out.

There is such an abundance of the spray, it literally drips down your body before drying. When it eventually does dry, it leaves a slightly sticky feeling to the skin.

As for the smell, I may as well have dripped toiler cleaner all over my body. It would have definitely smelled the same! The aroma, if you can call it that, was much stronger once the product was exposed to the air.

I was hoping to smell fresh and fruity after applying this, but instead I smelled like a toilet pan.

Avon – you’ve failed me. I won’t be buying this product again, unless it’s to spray round the toilet rim. I had to bath after using it, so it has failed miserably and is now in the bin.
 

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