Never settle for average (Radox Showerfresh Energise!)

Member Name: michaird

Product:	Radox Showerfresh Energise!
Date:	25/09/02 (110 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good quality product

Disadvantages: Nothing more than average

Ah, another day another shower gel. I never buy the same gel twice, otherwise I would run out of things to write ops about and so this time I'm inflicting upon you the Radox experience, or at least my Radox experience.

I bought this as a morning gel, something to wake me up and get me ready for the trials and tribulations of the day ahead. With this in mind I choose the 'revitalise' option which promises to invigorate my body and mind.

Also in the Radox showerfresh range we have:

Energise: A zesty one
Active: A reviving one
Relax: A calming one
Moisture boost: A silky one
Refresh: An uplifting one
For men: Gggrr, a manly one

Now I'm not entirely sure what the difference between being revitalised, revived, energised and uplifted actually is but it seems that the difference is:

Revitalised = running around manically.
Revived = no longer comatose.
Energised = had electric shock.
Uplifted = lift is working today.

(Differences courtesy of Sue Magee)

I choose 'revitalise' as it had a nice light fruity fragrance.

I'm not sure what fruit it is either, there is an orange on the front of the bottle but I cant smell much in the way of oranges, it seems to me like a mild peachy scent with just a hint of tangerine behind it. There is certainly nothing in the list of scary sounding ingredients that I can even decipher as English, let alone a type of fruit.

The smell is rather nice though, at it's strongest as you wash but it never really reaches that point where the aroma wraps itself around you as you lather, therefore it never really revitalises me, or anything else for that matter.

It did however leave me nice and clean, my skin didn't show any reaction to it one way or the other and the scent did not linger for long after the shower.

The bottle is your standard upside down squeezy affair that most shower
gels come in. It has a hook for hanging it up, however the hook is very small and the only place I could find narrow enough to hang it on was the shower rail itself, not the best idea.

The gel is dispensed through a clever valve contrap
tion although the inclusion of a flip top lid in addition to this betrays either a lack of confidence in the valve design or that they had an awful lot of flip lids to get rid of. The lid annoyed me, so I just pulled it off. The bottle rather amusingly has a little symbol with the words 'non-drip cap' around it. Erm, maybe it's just me but, I'm sure that's what cap's are for.

I paid £1.45 for it in Wilkinsons; the price in boots is £1.99 so as shower gels go it's not all that expensive.

There is no mention on the bottle of an animal testing policy; however, Radox can be contacted from the web site www.radox.co.uk

It's a shower gel; it smells nice and gets me clean, that's really the be all and end all.

But when you have original source to choose from, it just isn't enough really.


(will move to revitalise category as soon as fuctionality returns)

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