The beautiful folks at the Body Shop just sent me some luxe samples of their new limited edish Virgin Mohito body care collection and Vitamin C skin care. These are fan faves, and as I am a huge Body Shop fan, I had to have em. They arrived in an eco-friendly and inspirational tote a-la Lu Lu Lemon style, with beautiful phrases like “Be yourself, everybody else is taken” and “Do it with passion or not at all.” Reading those inspirational words I was already feeling high before I even cracked open the virgin mohito body gel in the shower this morning – one whiff and I was rocking a huge buzz from the smell, a minty-citrus confection that transported me right to the beach. It conjured up images of lying on a beach chair under an umbrella sipping a mohito, the quintessential summer cocktail. Relaxed, euphoric, peaceful, balanced. As I reveled in the visualization, my brain flooded with happy chemicals. It’s an amazing trick to get quick bursts ofhappiness –just close your eyes and meditate upon (contemplate or imagine) your favorite memory, person, place or thing. For your brain, reliving positive memories in your mind mimic actually being there, so you have the same happy chemicals flooding your body as if you were experiencing the real thing. Between the water cascading over me and the heavenly scent, I felt blissful. I exited and immediately pumped out some of the Vitamin C skin boostonto my face. Now, I’m a huge fan of vitamin C in general, for boosting immunity and smoothing wrinkles. Unlike the ones I’m used to, which smell a bit chemical/industrial, this one has the most pleasant citrus scent and goes on like buttah. It actually feels like it leaves a sheer velvet layer on your skin. I don’t know about you, but soft, smooth skin always makes me happy (and anyone else who’s got the lucky privilege of touching it). I finished off my shower experience with a spritz of the Vitamin C Energising Face Spritz. I wish I had this on my recent trip to Europe-there many hot days in Spain where I could’ve used not just a refreshing spritz on my skin, but an instant pick-me-up and smoother. This spray is so legit-it’s instant glow and refreshment for sluggish summer skin. My face feels like a baby’s butt right now, my body smells like the perfect buzz. It’s a winning combo.
Tag: The Body Shop
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It’s Happy Hour (for my skin)
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I just had a tea ceremony in my bathtub! Thanks to my good friends at the Body Shop.
I just had a tea ceremony in my bathtub. I wasn’t throwing back to the 70’s for a free-love-with-tea-in-my-bath-tub gig, I was luxuriating in some new products my good friends at the Body Shop
sent me to try – a line of green tea infused and inspired bath products, from body wash, to body scrub, bath tea, to body butter.All but the bath tea are probably familiar, if not infrequent in your world. I mean, it seriously occurred to me as I was drawing this bath to put “bath tea” in it that I would never have done this except on the rare occasion I was actually at a spa having it drawn for me. But having it in my midst, this bath tea, compelled me to make a ceremony out of it, lighting a few candles, soaking in the tub for about 20 minutes, zoning out into some kind of meditative state where it smells green tea-licious, and listening to my most favorite tunes.
The scent is reminiscent of a green tea line Bvlgari was putting in their hotels’ bath products in the early 2000’s, reminders of the most elegant and luxurious vacations of my life. This smell evoked that elegance, even if it was a bit intense for a girl like me who usually uses an unscented crème de corps. So just that this whole Fuji Green Tea line invoked some kind of cool, zen space for me to luxuriate in made it worth it.
Not to mention I am a huge green tea buff, for its amazing anti-aging and health properties. I’d sit in the bath just to soak up skin-boosting ingredients, even if it was torture…but this was most definitely not torture. I was getting beautified inside and out simultaneously, and fully enjoying the experience. When I finally drew myself up and out of the bath, and I coated my skin with the body butter (you may have sampled some of the Body Shop’s iconic body butters before; I hadn’t really), it was like submerging my fingers into thick chocolate pudding. Heavenly texture, and it felt sweet going on and soaking into my skin. It feels totally moisturized. The body scrub felt the same way – like submerging my hand into this totally smooth texture, only feeling the exfoliant when I rubbed it on.
Overall, this was a very cool hour of my life, luxuriating in a green tea bath that smelled like elegance, soaking up antioxidants and getting clean, moisturized skin out of it. That is a lot of boxes checked.