[ Review ] Empire Australia Soothing Sea Salt Body Scrub ( Eucalyptus )

 

Product Description

Wonderfully fragrant and leaves your skin feeling soft and fresh! Includes eucalyptus essential oil, soy bean oil and crunchy, natural sea salt for effective exfoliation of dead skin.

I purchased Empire Australia Soothing Sea Salt Body Scrub ( Eucalyptus ) together with Empire Australia Organic Sea Salt & Coconut Oil Body Scrub on Singsale last year. 

To me, body exfoliation is much needed in a shower routine for smoother skin, minimizing the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, brighten skin and make it look firmer. Are you incorporating body scrubs into your routine too? 

Packaging, Scent and Texture

Made in Melbourne, Australia, Empire Australia Soothing Sea Salt Body Scrub ( Eucalyptus ) is housed in a 500g tub with a subtle musty scent that hardly smells like Eucalyptus. 

Being a salt-based scrub, the granules can be slightly abrasive for some. 

Directions for Use : 

1) Lightly dampen your skin prior to applying the scrub.

2) Massage firmly all over body paying particular attention to elbows, knees and feet. 

Tip : This can be quite messy so best done in the shower.

Performance and Ingredients

Unfortunately, I did not enjoy this sea salt body scrub at all. The oils are concentrated more at the bottom and the top is drier than the bottom, leading to the initial exfoliation being "rough" and abrasive. A stir is much recommended for such scrubs to infuse both wet and dry contents. 

Once you reached the bottom of the tub, the sea salt scrub would be slightly wetter and much sticky, leading to my body being sticky as well. Definitely not an experience I enjoyed.

And when the sticky granules rolled onto the bathroom floor and you happened to step on them, like I did, my soles would become extremely sticky like adhesive. 

Overall, while the exfoliation left my skin soft and smooth but the latter part of the scrub left me with  sticky skin as well. 

INGREDIENTS: SEA SALT, SODIUM CHLORIDE, GLYCINE SOJA (SOYBEAN) OIL, EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS (EUCALYPTUS) OIL, LIMONENE, LINALOOL, CITRAL.

Conclusion

To conclude, Empire Australia Soothing Sea Salt Body Scrub ( Eucalyptus ) gave rise to smoother skin but its either abrasive or sticky, depending on which part of the tub you are using. Not something I would repurchase. 

Check out all the body scrubs I have reviewed before.

For now, the best body scrubs for me would be Giovanni Hot Chocolate Sugar Scrub and Origins Smoothing Ginger Body Scrub.

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[ Review ] Empire Australia Organic Sea Salt & Coconut Oil Body Scrub

 

Product Description

Empire Australia Organic Sea Salt & Coconut Oil Body Scrub has incredible skin softening properties, smells amazing and leaves skin smoother and cleaner than before. Organic sea salt does most of the hard work to remove rough, dead skin while essential oils of coconut and orange not only smell divine but do lovely nourishing things for the skin too. 

I chanced upon Empire Australia Organic Sea Salt & Coconut Oil Body Scrub while shopping online in Singsale and promptly purchased it. Prior to my purchase, I have never heard of the brand. 

Empire Australia started eight years ago, by 2 people with a long history in the Australian cosmetic, bath and body industry. Their products are formulated in a Melbourne laboratory and sold at realistic prices where everyone can enjoy the everyday luxury that Empire Australia represents.

Packaging, Scent and Texture

Empire Australia Organic Sea Salt & Coconut Oil Body Scrub comes in a resealable package of 500g contents. There was a subtle scent of a mixture of coconut and orange essential oils which smells lovely. The nitty-gritty salt granules are not really for the delicate skin, if I may say so. 

How To Use :

1) Wet skin and massage all over the body in a circular motion.

2) Relax for 5-10 minutes while it dries then rinse off completely.

note : skin might appear red at first but thats normal. 

Performance and Ingredients

Empire Australia Organic Sea Salt & Coconut Oil Body Scrub is recommended to be used 1 to 3 times a week where you just need a few handfuls of the salt scrub from the package. 

As with such packaging, the essential oils or any runny contents would be soaked at the bottom while the salt granules would be quite dry at the top. You basically have to dig deep into the pile, just to get a mixture of the dry and wet contents, before scooping them up for body use.

Unfortunately, I do feel that most of the contents are dry and hence, abrasive for the sensitive skin. Probably only 15% of the contents are slightly wetter and found at the bottom. After massaging them and rinsing off, my skin is definitely softer and smoother since salt is a natural exfoliant that sloughs off dead skin and has minerals to soften skin and restore hydration.

Organic Sea Salt, Sodium Chloride, Glycine, Soja (Soybean) Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Limonene, Linalool, Citral

Conclusion

To conclude, Empire Australia Organic Sea Salt & Coconut Oil Body Scrub is a simple salt scrub for softer and smoother skin. If you have the time at home, you can do a fresh batch every week where you just DIY a mixture of coconut oil, salt and essential oils. 

Keen to check out more coconut body scrubs? Check out my reviews on Phutawan Coconut Salt Scrub and Coconut Milk Exfoliating Body Scrub.

Adding on, my all-time favourite body scrubs are Giovanni Hot Chocolate Sugar Scrub and Origins Smoothing Ginger Body Scrub.

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