The Body Shop Seaweed Mattifying Moisture Lotion SPF15

Price: £9.75 From: The Body Shop For: moisturising and balancing combination skin The packaging is a small simple squeezy plastic tube with a flip lid. It doesn't look as nice as most Body Shop products, but it's ok. It's easy to squeeze just the right amount that you need from the tube. Despite the Body Shop describing this as a 'gel-like moisture lotion', it really doesn't feel gel-like at all, it's just a fairly thin textured lotion. It feels creamy and smoothes easily into the skin. It absorbs quickly and I have to use quite a lot of it to feel that my whole face has been moisturised. This means that as you only get 50ml in ...  Read the complete review

I bought this product for the summer due to the fact that I hate to wear sun cream on my face under makeup because it makes me break out. I was looking for a moisturiser that contained SPF and this one seemed like the perfect one because I already had products from the Bodyshop's seawead range and it would complete my skincare collection. *Packaging* Seaweed Mattifying Moisture Lotion comes in a 50ml tube with a flip-top lid. The tube is white with a blue sticker on giving us all the information we need to know. I like the fact that the tube stands on it lid because it means when there's not much of the product left, you can still squeeze it ...  Read the complete review

I have to say this product disappointed me after the success of the non-SPF Face Cream from the same range (see my review for the glorifying praise!). I bought this cream to replace the Body Shop Seaweed Mattifying Day Cream when I'd finished the tub because I was concerned about the lack of SPF. I was using a other products from the same range at the time, specifically the face wash and exfoliating scrub. I have sensitive skin with a slightly oily T-zone. I really like the tube packaging because I don't like putting my fingers into product because I prefer to keep my beauty products sterile, but I'm afraid that's where my appreciatiation for this ...  Read the complete review