Review: Seaweed Pore-Cleansing Facial Exfoliator

In my quest to review all of my face washes, scrubs, and masks, I bring you the Seaweed Pore-Cleansing Facial Exfoliator!

I bought this sort of on a whim, I wanted to try the whole range of washes/masks that The Body Shop made in the seaweed line. So I bought the gel cleanser, this exfoliator, and the clay mask. I have to say, this is by far my favorite of the three. I hated the mask, the cleanser was average, but this scrub is absolutely great.

What serves as the abrasive part of this scrub is olive seed powder. Personally, I love olives (I have The Body Shop olive body wash and body scrub), so this is a welcome product in my skincare world.

Long term, I also like this scrub a lot more than I like the Korres Pomegranate Deep Cleansing Scrub that I recently reviewed. You can use less of this product, and it's significantly cheaper. I'll definitely be repurchasing this.

It retails for $15 for 2.5 fl oz (whereas the Korres scrub goes for $21 for 1.35 oz).

In other news, I'm visiting home this weekend for my mom's birthday! When my sister, my mom, and I all get together, it's safe to say that there will be multiple trips to Sephora (and Ulta, and The Body Shop), so expect a blog post on the shopping early next week!

Review: Korres Pomegranate Deep Cleansing Scrub

A couple of months ago, I was living my life, visiting home. In Knoxville there's a Sephora at the West Town Mall, but then there's also a JCPenny Sephora in Turkey Creek. My sister and I went to the JCPenny Sephora because sometimes the sale section there has things they would never put in the sale section at a regular Sephora or at Sephora.com. This particular trip to JCPenny proved fruitfull: I got this scrub for $11.99. It's reguarly $21!

I had actually been eyeing this scrub for quite some time: I love Korres, and was dying to try a product from this pomegranate line.

 If there's one complaint that I have, it's the packaging. With all of the scrubs/exfoliators/masks/cleansers I have, I need products to be able to stand on their own. But the cap of this scrub is so small that it can't really stand: if I nudge it even slightly it topples over, creating a domino effect that results is products and bottles flying everywhere in my medicine cabinet and all over the floor of my bathroom.

But one of the things that I love about this product is the consistency. I love that it doesn't feel mass produced. Cheaper scrubs (and a lot of scrubs I own) have very uniform consistency. The particles of whatever (microbeads, walnut shells, pumice) are all the same size. But with the scrub, the Greek olive stones have clearly been reduced in some way that has resulted in beautiful inconsistencies in texture. The overall look just is more natural.

Overall, I really like this scrub. It leaves my skin feeling clean and exfoliated. I'd definitely recommend it to someone who's comfortable with scrubs.