Nivea Bath Care Pampering Shower Oil

...be really mucky pups!)
Nivea claim that this shower oil is suitable for all skin types, and in particular anyone with dry skin, and that it contains “55% caring oil”. I don’t know exactly what “caring oil” actually consists of; in fact, I haven’t a damned clue what “caring oil” consists of. But Nivea assure me (on the bottle) that it’s an innovative new formula, so I suppose I have no choice but to settle for that (inadequate) explanation.
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~ ~ Nivea Pampering Shower Oil is manufactured by Belersdorf UK Ltd in Birmingham, who also have a branch here in my home city of Dublin. (But they don’t give an address!) The company would appear to be a subsidiary of a German outfit of the same name from Hamburg in Germany.
I dunno! Maybe they have some sort of deal going with BMW in Germany to take all their leftover motor oil off their hands at a bargain price or something! ... more

~ ~ We now have a new bathroom in the mad cabbie household, which has left the old bank balance severely dented. (If not quite busted!) The re-vamp required a drastic cleanout of the old premises before the builders moved in, and while stripping the old bathroom cabinet I came across the product I’m going to review here. “Nivea Pampering Shower Oil”.
Don’t ask me where it came from! All I know is that I didn’t personally buy it. At a guess, I’d say it was another “slip into the basket while daddy isn’t looking” jobs by my wee lass! (She costs me a blooming fortune, so she does!)

~ ~ Anyways, after being deprived of my daily shower for over a fortnight, (what’s that horrible smell??) I decided I could most definitely do with a little pampering, and this stuff seemed like just what the doctor ordered to get all ingrained muck and grime out of my sorely abused torso. (Builders tend to be really mucky pups!)
Nivea claim that this shower oil is suitable for all skin types, and in particular anyone with dry skin, and that it contains “55% caring oil”. I don’t know exactly what “caring oil” actually consists of; in fact, I haven’t a damned clue what “caring oil” consists of. But Nivea assure me (on the bottle) that it’s an innovative new formula, so I suppose I have no choice but to settle for that (inadequate) explanation.
So it was into my spanking new shower cubicle (luvverly!) to give it a try out.

~ ~ This “pampering shower oil” comes in a clear plastic, 200ml bottle, with a blue flip top. So it’s easy to see how much you have left, and easy enough to dispense. The oil itself is a kind of clear, medium brown/orange colour, which reminded me of Castrol GTX Motor Oil. You know, that’s the stuff you put into your car engine to keep it running smoothly.
Once I’d dispensed a wee bit into my little mitt, I was reminded even MORE of Castrol GTX Motor Oil, as this shower oil is very slippery and greasy to the touch.
After having a little sniff, I was almost convinced it actually WAS motor oil, and that it had somehow slipped into the old bathroom cabinet by mistake.
But what the hell, I’m nothing if not adventurous, so onto the old bodywork it went.

~ ~ But wait a minute! I thought that you were supposed to get lovely soapsuds with shower oil? Well, don’t hold your breath if you like lots of nice soapy bubbles, because believe me you’re not going to get them with this product.
I was by now almost totally convinced that somebody was having me on, and that this actually was motor oil, as the texture was so greasy and oily.
It would be grand as a substitute product for greasing the joints and moving parts of my taxi, but as a product for cleaning and invigorating the old driver it’s an absolute washout!
And that’s precisely what I did next; proceeded to “wash out” this disgusting excuse for a shower oil from my torso, by reaching for my regular “Harvard” shower gel from Marks and Sparks. Even at that it took me the best part of a quarter of an hour and almost half a bottle to get the last remaining residue off my skin!

~ ~ Nivea Pampering Shower Oil is manufactured by Belersdorf UK Ltd in Birmingham, who also have a branch here in my home city of Dublin. (But they don’t give an address!) The company would appear to be a subsidiary of a German outfit of the same name from Hamburg in Germany.
I dunno! Maybe they have some sort of deal going with BMW in Germany to take all their leftover motor oil off their hands at a bargain price or something!
If you’re still interested in trying out this product after the slating I’ve given it here in this review, then it costs €2.49 here in the Republic of Ireland. At least that was the price on the sticker on the bottle. I’m not sufficiently interested to bother looking up a UK price on the Web. I’ll leave that to yourself if you want to chance using this awful muck!
Absolutely *NOT* recommended by the mad cabbie.

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© KenJ March 2004

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