While shopping for Christmas gifts, I chanced upon Yves Rocher and promptly purchased Yves Rocher Winter Apples Body Scrub and Yves Rocher Midnight Berries Body Scrub which are limited editions specially for Christmas.
Made in France, Yves Rocher creates body care and skincare products made from natural botanical ingredients. You can check out my previous reviews on Yves Rocher Bourbon Vanilla Sensual Sugar Body Scrub, Yves Rocher Low ShamPoo Delicate Cleansing Cream, Yves Rocher Verbena Leaves Shower Gel, Yves Rocher Shower Oil Care and Yves Rocher Hair Repair Oil.
Product Description
Discover the effectiveness of this Christmas limited edition scrub with apricot pit powder combined with the delectable scent of juicy apple, for smooth, soft, delicately fragranced skin in a single step.
How To Use :
• In the shower, rub your body with the scrub, then rinse thoroughly.
• Use once or twice a week.
• Do not apply to the face or to damaged or irritated skin.
Yves Rocher Winter Apples Body Scrub is housed in a 150ml orange tube with pretty Christmas illustrations. Definitely makes the perfect Christmas gift for friends. Initially I wasn't a fan of its scent as it smells alittle odd with a mixture of sweetness and bitterness - I can't even explain it, however with time, I have grown accustomed to the scent.
Apricot (lat. Prunus Armeniaca) seed powder (crushed apricot kernel) is very often used in the skin care industry as a natural, mild scrub to remove all impurities from the surface of the skin which can clog the pores as well as dead skin cells to prevent them from thickening the skin and making the complexion dull.
However, do note that rough particles, such as ground-up seeds or fruit pits, can create micro-tears in the skin, which leads to skin inflammation and even infection and that is how the controversy surrounding the use of St. Ives' Apricot Scrub started too.
That said, even though Yves Rocher Winter Apples Body Scrub is used for the body but if you have sensitive skin, you may want to take note of that.
When massaged into the skin, apricot seed powder acts as fine solid particles that promote the removal of damaged skin cells from the skin’s surface, thus leaving behind a softer, smoother skin texture and that was how I felt about Yves Rocher Winter Apples Body Scrub.
The gel-like contents with exfoliating beads are non-drying, non-abrasive and left my skin soft and smooth! However, nearing to the end of the contents ( about 10% left ), skin felt slightly drying during usage.
AQUA/WATER/EAUGLYCERINPRUNUS ARMENIACA (APRICOT) SEED POWDERHYDROXYPROPYL STARCH PHOSPHATEPOLYSORBATE 20CENTAUREA CYANUS FLOWER WATERXANTHAN GUMPRUNUS AMYGDALUS DULCIS (SWEET ALMOND) SHELL POWDERPARFUM/FRAGRANCESODIUM BENZOATEPYRUS MALUS (APPLE) FRUIT WATERLACTIC ACIDSALICYLIC ACIDPOTASSIUM SORBATECITRIC ACID10444v0
* Ingredients from natural origin
* Selected synthetic ingredients
Where To Purchase : Amazon | Yves Rocher
Product Description
The exfoliating effectiveness of Apricot pit powder combined with the fruity scent of red berries. Discover the effectiveness of this limited edition Christmas body scrub with Apricot pit powder combined with the tangy sweetness of red berries for smooth, soft, delicately fragrant skin in a single step.
How to use :
• In the shower, rub your body with the scrub, then rinse thoroughly.
• Use once or twice a week.
• Do not apply to the face or to damaged or irritated skin.
Yves Rocher Midnight Berries Body Scrub is housed in a 150ml tube, similarly to the Winter Apples variant. However, I like this scent much better - it has a berries-scented sweetness. The gel-like contents with tiny exfoliating beads are soft and glide well on skin for a smooth scrub without being greasy. However, it is a little drying at times. Skin is left feeling soft, smooth and clean.
It uses the same Apricot Seed Powder as Winter Apples variant, so if you have sensitive skin, do beware. The experience felt similar except for a different scent.
AQUA/WATER/EAUGLYCERINPRUNUS ARMENIACA (APRICOT) SEED POWDERHYDROXYPROPYL STARCH PHOSPHATEPOLYSORBATE 20CENTAUREA CYANUS FLOWER WATERXANTHAN GUMPRUNUS AMYGDALUS DULCIS (SWEET ALMOND) SHELL POWDERPARFUM/FRAGRANCESODIUM BENZOATELACTIC ACIDTRISODIUM ETHYLENEDIAMINE DISUCCINATESALICYLIC ACIDLIMONENELINALOOLVACCINIUM MACROCARPON (CRANBERRY) FRUIT EXTRACTPOTASSIUM SORBATECITRIC ACIDSODIUM HYDROXIDE10443v0
* Ingredients from natural origin
* Selected synthetic ingredients
To conclude, these are decent body scrubs for the price paid and are suitable as Christmas gifts with their beautiful illustrations. I would prefer Yves Rocher Midnight Berries Body Scrub for the scent, out of the 2 variants but I would not repurchase it as it was slightly dry.
My all-time favourite body scrubs are Giovanni Hot Chocolate Sugar Scrub and Origins Smoothing Ginger Body Scrub.
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