The Body Shop Strawberry Body Polish, a Pleasure in Tube

I think the title has explained everything.

Well, i always love the idea of combining your shower gel with scrub (or polish, you name it). I remember when i was a teenager, in Indonesia we have a shower gel with scrub from brand "Seventeen" which work wonders and affordable, i always have a stock in my bathroom until it's discontinued.

I used to tried to move into dry body scrub (called lulur in indonesian) but i truthfully, i hate waiting it to dried and hate it more to scrub. My usual method is using it to my wet skin, and not waiting til it's dry. This method works, but very impractical.

The day when i decided to purchase TBS's Body Polish will never forgotten.

  

I want to purchase the full size product but it was out of stock. I have to be happy with this travel size one (75ml) and it's retailed for idr. 89,000.
 

There's the ingredient list (click for enlarge)

So they're using Walnut shell powder and Kiwi seed as the main polish and add Strawberry juice (which also contained of seeds). It's also has Honey that prevent skin from over drying and add extra sweet scent to the product.

 

The tube is just nice, like any other tubes. I just love to pictured every angle of it.

 

Doesn't it looks like a strawberry squeze?

It's smell like one too!

 Again, the smell is amazing. If you're familiar to Body Shop's strawberry scent, it's even better because of the Honey. Very relaxing, comforting, pleasuring.. It's definately a LOVE.

And how about the cleaning side?

I haven't think that a shower gel could makes my skin very clean. I haven't found any dead skin after using my Strawberry body polish (unlike any other body scrub), even i never put too many pressure while using it. The scrub aren't harsh at all, even the big, black one.

Also because it's in gel form, it's easy to spread. I only need a small amount of product for everytime so i think it will last quite long.

My skin also loves it. It haven't makes my sensitive skin getting worse.

It's something that makes my day a day.

If only it's cheaper, i would be happier.. Tee-Hee!

Have you tried it? Do you loves it as i do? :)

Bali Spa Collection : Lavender Body Scrub

Today is august 16th and tomorrow is Indonesian Independence Day ヽ(∀゜ )人( ゜∀)ノ

So i decided to write a review about Indonesian Product. This is one of my newest items, i've stated it in my post about July & August Local Haul.

If you're going to any department store or market or souvenir store in Bali, you'll find some traditional based beauty product from several local brand. There's soap bar, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, body butter, body scrub, foot lotion, foot scrub, aromatherapy, breast cream, mask, and so on. Most of them has unique fruit or spice fragrance, if you like it, you might want to grab some. 

I don't like these fragrance, they're turn weird after several minutes in my opinion. Especially for product which will stay in your skin for several hours like body lotion & body  butter. But body scrub is different story. I will only use it for like 5 minutes and cover the smell with my regular soap. Tee-hee!

Bali Spa Collection isn't balinese local brand, it's produced by Indonesian Local Brand named PT Martina Berto or it's usually known as Martha Tilaar. It's also has different consistency with another balinese body scrub i used, but i like it!

I choose Lavender since it has a very attracting packaging and good smell (in my opinion).

It's quite cheap though, it's only about idr 9.000 for 200 ml (7.5oz) product.

It's also available in Olive, Bengkoang (Pachyrhizus erosus), Jasmine, and Coconut. For more info, you can read from their website 

it comes in plastic jar, quite big compared to balinese body scrub (it's Lulur in bahasa), which mostly comes in only 100ml size.

here's their explanation about product. They're so nice for using 2 languages there so some foreign from outside country can read it ~(￣▽￣)ノ

and here's i write the ingredients for you (because i forgot to take picture of it, hahahaha) :

water, stearic acid, polyethylene, caprylic/capric triglyceride, cetyl alcohol, glycerin, sodium lactate, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil, tocopheryl acetate, celullose gum, potassium hydroxide, glycol distearate, sodium laureth sulfate, cocamide MEA, laureth-10, carbomer, panthenol, pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, chlorphenesin, methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylsothiazolinone, fragrance, CI 17200, CI 42051.

my first impression :

sniff! it has floral scent but i'm not sure it's lavender scent

it's very ruinny! where's the scrub??

yeah it's purple! *LOL

if you zoom this picture in, you can see a small bubble, clear one, more like salt thing. Yeah it's the scrub.

see?

it has a very ruinny consistency and seems white on my hand.

rub! rub! rub!

cleaned!! (☆▽☆)

it doesn't even drying my skin, and there's no weird fragrance after use (ﾉ´∀｀*)ﾉ.

Overall, i like it for the price, and for nice result. But i love my Mustika Ratu's Coffee body scrub more. I will repurchase it once it's empty, but maybe not for long time.

Thanks for reading and Happy Independence Day!

wanna read my other post about indonesian local product?
click here

July's Haul & August's Local Haul (ﾉ´∀｀*)ﾉ

i know i rarely post about my haul, but truthfully, i always buy some new beauty item every month. Yes, every month. Sometimes i bought items dont really need, but yeah, i'm   addicted ≧△≦


here's my July haul, i know it's been too late, i was forgot to post it, but there it is!

they're :

• Mustika Ratu Body Scrub in Coffee, my best body scrub ever! love the smell & textures  ❤
• Mustika Ratu Body Butter in Rose, it doesnt contains paraben, has low sun protection, very moisturizing and smells nice  ❤
• Hot Pink Case ☆V☆, it's only 25.000 idr! so cute!
• MUAC 25% Mandelic Acid sample size, my first MUAC! ^^
• Ecotools Retractable Kabuki Brush, i dreamed about it and now it got it   ❤
• Tarte Clean Slate Primer, i bought it during tarte 30% sale, together with the blush   ❤
• Etude Brush Shower Cleaner, it works very great to clean foundation brush, love it!
• Etude AC Clinic Spot Gel Emulsion, me likey! will review it later :D
• Too Faced Summer Time Sexy Eye Shadow Palette, read my review about it here. I've even brought it to Jakarta on my latest trip. 
• Tarte 12 hours Amazonian Clay Blush in Exposed, a beautiful blush shade, will review it later.
• Nyx Pencil Sharpener, oh well, i need it so bad. It works well for my urban decay 24/7 glide on eye pencil. 
• The Body Shop Rainforest in Moisture gift set, i bought it during Body Shop's renovation sale, it's 20% off. I also got My first Body Shop's Member Card that time :)
• 3 pieces sample size BB Cream : Skin 79 Hot Pink BB Cream, Skin 79 Gold BB Cream, Etude Moisture Collagen BB Cream. It's free from my korean product purchase ^^
• Elf Treat & Tame in Dark. I dont use it yet, i've just shaped my eyebrow few days ago. Hahaha .. I dont even know how to use it T_____T

i rarely count my local beauty haul as a "haul", because it easy to get (there's no gap between date i ordered and date i got it), mostly in cheap area and the most important reason is : i rarely bought some beauty product at same time. Maybe i bought a shampoo on monday, a sunscreen on wednesday and a body lotion on saturday. In the same week, but i might wouldn't see them together *LOL


Well, i bought these together on August 3rd. Here they're :

• Mentholatum Acnes UV tint SPF 30 PA++, i bought it in reviewing purpose. I really love it but i do have lots of sunscreen .. LOL
• Dove Nourishing Oil Care Conditioner, it's the new one. It has conditioning part & treatment part in different colour, but it's almost impossible to use it separately.
• Bali Spa Body Scrub in Lavender. I ran out my Coffee body scrub (i finished 1 jar of body scrub in a month!) and i start to lookin' on cheaper alternative. This one cost 1/3 than the coffee one.
• Makarizo Texture Experience in Green Tea Butter. I love green tea! and i love how makarizo texture experience works on me  ❤

3 of them are made in Indonesia :

Have you try them?

What do you think about it?