The Body Shop Mango Body Butter

My Christmas gift set was the Mango variety and apart from swapping the body scrub all the rest are Mango varieties. I love body Shop body butters but as they are so expensive it's rare that I buy myself one. Body butters are primarily made up from cocoa butter with the added flavours to make the different aromas and skin type suitabilities. Cocoa butter melts at body temperature making this product ideal for dissolving into you skin. The product is made up of a pot with a screw lid, and whilst the body scrubs can de difficult to open, the body butters are fine as your hands aren't wet or too greasy after application. Upon opening the pot, ...  Read the complete review

Totally tropical! According to an article I read, Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. Cultivated in many tropical regions and distributed widely in the world, mango is one of the most extensively exploited fruits for food, juice, flavor, fragrance and color, making it a common ingredient in new functional foods often called superfruits. I absolutely love the taste of Mangos, they are juicy, sweet and very tropical tasting. That said, when I needed a new Body Butter from the Body Shop I went for the mango variety this time, having tried a number ...  Read the complete review

I received this body butter as part of a gift from a friend (most of my gifts now seem to come form the Body Shop!), and as with most of their other products it's not something I would ever buy myself as it's just so expensive. This costs £4.85 for a little travel-sized 50ml pot, or £12.20 for a full-sized 200ml pot. It comes in a round tub made of yellow plastic, very bright and summery, with a screw off lid. The lid fastens really tightly so there's no chance of it coming open in a bag or if you take it travelling with you. The packaging is very nice, and easy to use, but I would prefer a bottle or tube, just because dipping your fingers into the stuff just ...  Read the complete review

Before I discovered the fantastic shop that is Lush, I had a love affair with somewhere else: The Body Shop. The Body Shop company has been around for a long time, and has had a fantastic reputation for creating good quality bath and body products and a good price, and ethically. The Body Shop famously criticised large cosmetic companies such as L'oreal for testing their products on animals, until of course L'oreal itself bought The Body Shop not long ago. Hmmm. I never really buy things from the Body Shop anymore, partly because of this hypocrisy, but also because of the fact that most of the sales assistants in the shops are far too pushy and don't seem to ...  Read the complete review

The Body Shop Mango Body Butter claims to be suitable for very dry skin and as my skin is VERY dry I decided to give it a try. Obviously it is only available in The Body Shop and comes in 2 different sizes - 50ml costing £5 and 200ml costing £12.50. I decided to buy the 50ml size initially just to try it out and see if it is worth buying the larger size. The Body Shop body butter is made from a base of cocoa butter, which is good for cooling and soothing dry skin. Cocoa butter has been used for many years in Ghana to moisturise and keep the skin cool in the hot temperatures. It also contains almond oil, which replaces essential fatty acids back into the ...  Read the complete review