Great Value - Great Gift (New Olay Ribbons Body Wash)

Member Name: Glasgow Girl

Product:	New Olay Ribbons Body Wash
Date:	30/10/00 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: One of the best products on the market . . .

Disadvantages: If you can accept the associated environmental / 'cleaning up afterwards'probems . . .

Totally re-written, especially for the Christmas season.
Just in case you are thinking of giving this product as a present, I thought I'd doo a re-write on this product. . .
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Oil of Olay’s Daily Renewal Body Wash is an excellent product. I’ve been using it for a while now and it does what it says on the container, - it moisturises and leaves my skin feeling fabulous.

It is soo easy to use, as it come in a ‘hand-sized’ container and that really helps when you consider where it is to be used. However, if Olay were to ‘design in’ some smooth ridges along the sides of the container, it would be even more useful than it is now.

I’ve tried the competing brand (Dove) and found it definitely not to my liking and, judging from what I’ve heard from my friends, - I’m not the only one who believes Olay’s to be the far better product.

You can buy Oil of Olay’s Daily Renewal Body Wash at almost every shop there is, -
from giant hyper-markets to the corner shop, and if you’ve got one of those then make the most of it, you are a very lucky person.

When you’re thinking ‘practical’ then, I believe, that you can do no better than Olay’s claim to provide “ . . .40+ uses when used with the ‘Olay puff . . .”. For once, a manufacturers claim can be verified and I find this to be a most peculiar phenomena, don’t you agree?

The other claim on the container, that Oil of Olay’s Daily Renewal Body Wash gives 24 hour moisturisation, - well that is something that would depend upon where and when you are using it, surely?
If you are on holiday for example, and your skin is dryer than it usually is, then the moisturisation of the product would have to compensate for that factor and I doubt if that is the case, - but then again, - do they have ‘time
-release’ for products such as Oil of Olay’s Daily Renewal Body Wash? I suppose even that is possible, these days.

Speaking of technology, - brings me to one of the two failings that I have found when using this product, and that is the contents list on the packet.

There’s the ubiquitous, ‘Aqua’, whatever that is - I don’t know, but it’s in just about everything that I like the smell of these days!
Next comes ‘petrolatum’, (yes folks, it’s in my Collin’s dictionary!)
- well I never, petrol has even found its way in to my bathtime favourite, -whatever next?
Then there’s ammonium lautheth. There will be someone wanting to call their child, Lautheth, any day now, I can feel it in my bones . . .
Next on the list are the usual suspects of sulphate
(don’t tell any one round my way that’s in it or they’ll try to smoke it or something)
citrate, parfum (perfume ?, no, maybe not)
a word I cannot be bothered to re-write, it’s soo long!
Guar, - that’s the stuff yon page three bird, Samantha something or other was saying made you slim, wasn’t it? (makes you feel ‘full-up)

The other derogatory factor is that, when used in the bath, the product leaves the most awful scum, which, if not cleaned up immediately, is difficult to remove.
A ‘tide-mark’ in the bath may not be a new thing for you folks down south in the ‘hard water’ areas, - here in Glasgow, we pride ourselves on our ‘very soft’ water, which has little in the way of lime or other substances in it. This means that we do not have to use nearly as much detergent as it says on soap-powder packets and we do not have a lime-scale problem . .
However, with this product, we get both a scum round the bath and a ‘clean up’ problem too. (‘go figure’, as our American friends say).

As y
ou can see what appeals about this product is what it does and it’s value for money.
but, - as with the anti-bacterial cleaners I’ve written about elsewhere, - there is a ‘down-side’ to it as well.
If you want to give it a try, then I can thoroughly recommend it. If, on the other hand you find you cannot bring yourself to contaminate the world any more than you do already, then I totally understand an concur.

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