THe Sanctuary Body Butter

Advantages: Rich and creamy, quality product
Disadvantages: Smell not for everyone

...The Sanctuary Body Butter. The Sanctuary began as a Spa in Covent Garden over 30 years ago. Their philosophy is all about providing the time, space and expertise for women to renew that glow. I've never been to the Spa but friends have been and they do say that it is a wonderful experience and definitely a very upmarket product. The Sanctuary beauty products were produced in 1998. Customers had been wanting to take the spa experience home with them without needing a therapist or special equipment so they came up with the idea of selling their products. Apparently they are only sold exclusively at Boots and of course you can buy them in the spa's themselves. I've always liked the look of the products as I think they have quite an expensive, quality look about them. I have used the foaming bath soak for quite a while but this is...

Spottydog11 02.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Sanctuary Body Butter

Lovely Body Butter!

Advantages: Smells lovely, responsibly produced, works well
Disadvantages: A bit expensive at full price

...A few years ago a friend of mine bought me a gift set from The Body Shop for Christmas and amongst the items contained therein was a pot of body butter. I really wasn?t expecting to like it at all; from the term ?body butter? I expected it to be really greasy and oily. I was quite wrong and have been hooked ever since! The one I am currently using is the Satsuma Body Butter which normally retails at £12.20 for a pot containing 200ml although there is an offer on at the moment reducing the price by 20% so it is only £9.76. If you do like Body Shop products it is worth keeping your eyes open during the year as they often have special offers so it is worth stocking up when things are cheaper. If you are a regular customer it is also worth investing in their reward card. It costs £5 per year but you get a free gift worth £5 on your...

SusanLesley 31.10.2009 · Read review
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Butter it up with Papaya body butter!

Advantages: Does as it is supposed to do leaving skin soft and supple.
Disadvantages: Expensive, difficulty absorbing into skin!

... The Body Shop: Papaya Body Butter What is Papaya Body Butter? Body Butter is pretty much what it says on the tub, this body butter especially looks like butter with its colour, and in the texture of the body butter, but it is moisturiser for all over body use! It is very thick and creamy and can be a little ?slimy? when you first put your fingers into it, and unlike normal moisturiser you have to dig your fingers into it to get it out rather than it been quite wet in the tub. This for me is one of the downsides of the body butter, although I like moisturiser to be thick and creamy and not wet and slimy, this is a little too thick, and when you put it on your skin, if you haven?t rubbed it into your hands before applying it to your skin, you can get dollops of it which won?t rub in properly. Body butter is designed...

stephbond89 16.11.2009 · Read review
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Body Butter Bliss

Advantages: Gives you gorgeously soft, smooth skin and smells lovely
Disadvantages: Price!

...I bought this last year after reading all the hype about it in magazines and on the Bliss website and deciding I had to see for myself if it's as good as everyone says it is! It costs £23 for a 250ml tube from the website or Bliss salons, and you can also now buy it from some Boots stores and their website. They say that this fabulous, fresh-citrus scented dry body drenching butter is so incredibly effective that a single squeeze can make rough and scaly skin 'history'. With antioxidant vitamins A and E, sodium hyaluronate (a powerful oil-free moisture magnet) and arnica extract. It comes in a bright blue tube with a white flip lid that it stands on. The body butter is white and it has a sweet but subtle lemon scent. The texture is quite thin for a body butter, and it's extremely smooth. When you first apply it to skin it feels...

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Review of Bliss Lemon + Sage Body Butter

Really moisturising body butter

Advantages: Really hydrating, nice smell, leaves skin moisturised for ages
Disadvantages: Hard to rub in, expensive!

...realise it is an expensive brand that it starts to seem better. This body butter comes in a normal shape squeezy bottle with the lid at the bottom. It is a bright mid blue bottle with ?lemon and sage? in yellow writing and ?body butter? in bigger writing beneath it. The Bliss logo is also at the top of the bottle. Beneath the writing there is a cartoon style picture of a lemon. The bottle is fun but it just doesn?t look great quality. I?m not saying that designer packaging has to be classic and boring, but this just looks cheap. Anyway? The Body Butter? The body butter is a cream colour and the smell is as I imagined. To be honest I wasn?t to keen on the sound of ?lemon and sage? but it is actually really pleasant and smells more like just lemon. It actually does smell of real lemons as well, rather than an artificial smell. I was...

yazoo88 12.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Bliss Lemon + Sage Body Butter

The best body butters around!

Advantages: smells gorgeous and makes your skin feel it too!
Disadvantages: none

...I received a tester sample of this body butter and that is what sold it to me as otherwise I probably would never have bothered with what seemed like an expensive body moisturiser! However this is a totally luxurious body moisturiser and is well worth its £12.50 pricetag believe it not! The ingredients include Shea butter to moisturise and soften skin, Caprylic which also softens skin and is derived from coconut oil and finally cocoa butter which melts at body temperature, leaving the skin feeling soft and silky smooth. Now this product claims its offers up to 24 hours moisturisation and i'd have to say I agree with it! As soon as it sinks onto your skin it feels beautifullly silky smooth and continues to feel that way for ages plus the smell lasts too! Regarding the smell, well here is the odd bit- I don't really think...

f1re_cr4cker 20.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Body Shop Coconut Body Butter

A delicious and fruity smelling body butter.

Advantages: The smell stays on your body, but isn't overpowering.
Disadvantages: None! It's great.

...I've known the Body Shop body butters range smell nice, everytime I've been in The Body Shop I always like to sniff them, however I've never bought one before because I don't often use a body lotion as the skin on my body isn't particularly dry or anything. I recently got a free gift when I spent over £25 in the Body Shop and inside the gift was a free 50ml tub of the Strawberry Body Butter, so I finally own one! This Body Butter comes in a lovely red screw top tub, and the top has a a label which shows a picture of stawberries, and it states it's meant for nomal skin. I know their other body butters can be aimed at other types of skin for example the Coconut Body Butter is aimed at dry skin. As soon as you open this tub up the smell of strawberries hits you. It reminds me of strawberry yoghurt or milkshake and is nice and sweet...

GemmaC25 29.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Body Shop Strawberry Body Butter

One sickly sweet body butter!

Advantages: oh so moisturising
Disadvantages: very very sweet

...I love body butters and believe that the Body Shop ones are the best. This in mind I thought I would try another of their range and plumped for Strawberry! I bought it for £12.50 from Amazon using my vouchers hurrah so at least if it turned out to be a disappointment I wouldn't have lost any real money! I bought the big 200g tub which is a dark red with strawberries on the top. The actual butter is a light pink colour. As soon as you open the lid you get a whiff of the strawberries and cream. This reminds me rather of those strawberries and cream lollies you can buy so pleasent but a little artifical perhaps. The consistency of the body butter is the same as the others being very thick and buttery. Indeed you can open the pot hold it upside down and none will drop out. I then normally get a largish dollop and put it on my legs...

f1re_cr4cker 20.09.2009 · Read review
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Coconut body butter

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: Nothing

...It's been a while I have shopped at The Body Shop. There wasn't a real reason why I stopped going I just didn't really like their stuff any more. Recently though I received a free 50ml pot of Coconut Body Butter with Marie Claire magazine and I loved it so much that I will definitely be making a trip to Body Shop, (or at least their website). ~~~~~~ The pot I have is 50ml which is worth £5.00 and comes in a little brown plastic pot. The lid is a screw off affair and does up nice and tightly meaning I can carry it around in my bag. Once you open the lid you are greeted by a smell very similar to coconut milk. I love this smell so this definitely a great variety for me to try. The smell is very realistic as well rather than fake, sweet smell you get with some coconut fragranced things. The smell even provoked a reaction from...

donnabroom 18.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Body Shop Coconut Body Butter

Shea Body Butter? No Ta!

Advantages: Very ethnical product, pretty nice smell!
Disadvantages: Over price and over hyped.

...I'd never really used Body Shops Body Butter before I got the Shea Body Butter free with a magazine. I'd heard a lot of rave reviews about it, saying how it was the best moisturiser and had done wonders for their skin. So when I saw a 50ml tub being offered free with a Magazine I thought 'why not?' and made my little way down to WHSmiths. Body Shop Body Shop has to be one of the most trusted brands in the Country, and rightly so as it's the second largest cosmetic brand in the world and one of the first cosmetic companys to say 'No!' to animal testing. Opened in 1976 The Body Shop has always promoted fair trade with third world countries, and has been using recycled bottles since day one. The Body Shop is a British brand that you can really be proud of. In 2006 The Body Shop were taken over by Loreal, I found this majorly...

Cinny91 29.10.2009 · Read review
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