Hive Of Beauty Sweet Almond Massage & Aromatherapy Oil

Advantages: So easy and gentle to use
Disadvantages: Haven't found any yet!

...that a patch test is done before going on to using the product. On the Apothecary's Cat website (where I bought it from) it also says that it can be used as a protein-rich face masque, although I've not tried it like this yet. *~~Effect~~* Clean, fresh feeling skin that has a lovely fresh smell of lemon balm. This has got to be the most gentle facial scrub I have ever used. It is so gentle that you don't even feel it working, although it makes my skin feel lovely after using it. *~~Ingredients~~* Distilled water, sweet almond meal and sweet almond oil(prunus amygdalus dulcis), glycerin,cetaryl glucoside and cetaryl alcohol, lactoperoxydase and glucose oxidase, rosemary leaf extract (rosmarinus officianalis), styrax benzoin resin extract, natural non-GMO vitamin E oil (tocopherol acetate), alcohol, lemongrass oil (cymbopogen... Read review

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Advantages: Leaves hands feeling silky smooth and smells lovely
Disadvantages: Hands are greasy for a couple minutes after application

...I purchased a daily hand and nail cream from the body shop a couple of months back as my hands are often dry after washing. I have found this product to be much better than other products I have used on my hands for example nivea and vaseline. Not that I dislike the other products I have used but they just leave my hands greasy for ages and I cant do nothing with them. The body shops Almond Oil Hand and Nail Cream does have my hands feeling greasy, however, only for a couple of minutes. After that they become extremely soft and supple yet you can not feel that anything is on your hands. It also smells very nice because of the almond oil but it also contains community traded shea butter, soya oil and beeswax to help protect against dryness and moisture loss. Key Ingredients ---------------------- Sweet Almond Oil - Provides... Read review

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Advantages: Hydrates, softens and smooths skin and nails, smells lovely, must have for acrylics
Disadvantages: None apart from price

...essential oils along with Vitamin E, it is designed to deeply penetrate and protect both natural and acrylic nails as well as your skin. It comes in a more liquidous form than other oils like massage oils and cooking oils. Solar Oil contains Jojoba Oil which helps Vitamin E penetrate deeply into the skin, this prevents cellular damage and eliminates visible signs of aging, so is good to start using whilst young. Jojoba Oil penetrates Rice Bran Oil and Sweet Almond Oil into natural nails and acrylic nails and this keeps them tough and flexible. Repeated use drives oils penetrates to product deeper into your nails and skin therefore maximizing the benefits and preventing problems. SolarOil has won the Best Cuticle Oil for the third year running in the prestigious In-Style 2008 Best Beauty Awards which gives it the cult Hall of Fame... Read review

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