Product Review: Carol's Daughter Jamaican Punch Sea Salt Scrub

Smooth skin is always in. I try to keep some type of scrub in my shower; especially in the wintertime to exfoliate and moisturize rough dry skin skin. I wanted to re-up on Carol's Daughter Sweet Honey Dip Chocolate Brown Sugar Scrub, but decided to try something new. So I purchased Carol's Daughter Jamaican Punch Sea Salt Scrub.

This scrub has notes of Brazilian Orange, Fuji Apple, Ylang-ylang and Nutmeg, along with Sweet Almond, Soybean, Avocado and Jojoba Oils. It basically smells like a drink you get when you enter a resort in Negril. It's not full of parabens, petroleum, mineral oil, or artificial color. The scrub is pretty gentle compared to many scrubs I already own, and contains a good mixture of scrub and oil. So it's not too rough and leaves the skin moisturized.

After a long day of work, or an early morning rise, the Jamaican punch will make you feel refreshed. If only I could have it with rum in the shower.....

fresh To Death

My ELLE magazine has yet to arrive in my mailbox. I saw the July issue in Harris Teeter this AM, and I REFUSE to buy it or peek inside. Instead, I purchased the July issue of W Magazine with the beautiful Eva Mendes on the cover. It's definitely worth getting.

I read in the issue that fresh has teamed up with Sony Pictures to create the Eat, Pray, Love fragrance collection, inspired by the memoir of the same name by Elizabeth Gilbert, and of course the movie.

Eat has top notes of Italian lemon, basil and bergamot; a heart of plum, red current and rose, and a drydown of caramel, meringue and vanilla. Pray has top notes of elemi, pink pepper and juniper berry; middle notes of incense, peony and rose, and a drydown of patchouli, amber and musk. Love has top notes of bergamot, red currant and mango blossom; a heart of tiare and dewy jasmine, and a drydown of sandalwood, vetiver and velvet amber. They all sound like they smell so gooooood! Each scent will cost $32 a bottle and there will also be candles available at $45 each. They arrive in stores on July 15.

P.S. I LOVE fresh Brown Sugar Body Polish. If you've never tried it, you must!!!! While I've been using Carol Daughters Sweet Honey Dip Chocolate Brown Sugar Scrub for the past couple of months, I think I'm going to have to switch back to fresh for ol' time sake.

SweetHoneyDipChocolate... BrownSugah Scrub

 Available at Sephora $34

Last night, I tried SweetHoneyDipChocolate...BrownSugah Scrub by Carol's Daughter. Let me tell you, you need this in your life! It smells so freaking good that I could have taken a spoonful and put it in my mouth instead of on my body! The brown sugar crystals help polish away dead skin cells, and it's full of natural oils that aid in moisturizing the skin.

The scrub is also paraben-free. Paraben is a synthetic preservative commonly used in cosmetics and personal care products like shampoos, skin creams and deodorants. Many people have allergic reactions to these preservatives causing skin rashes and irritation. Paraben is suspected to cause problems like weight gain, skin aging and certain types of cancer. Needless to say, there is a great ongoing debate as to the safety of products containing parabens.

It also is free of petroleum, mineral oil, and artificial color. Petroleum products coat the skin like plastics, clogging the pores, which interferes with the skins ability to eliminate toxins. This promotes acne and slows down cell development in skin, resulting in premature aging.

Carol's Daughter has a lot of amazing products that I look forward to trying!