Lavender & Rose Facial Toner

Actually, it looked good (cute packaging) but neither my son or I liked how it smelled. AT ALL. However, roses are not my deal. I like to look at them, love their smell in real life, but add rose scent to a body care item, and it usually flips me out. I’ve never liked rose scented body anything. So how fair would it be for me to review this? Not much.

That said, I enlisted my best friend Sara to help me out. Because she was being so helpful, I also handed over some other products for review. She’s a good reviewer choice; she’s even pickier than me about soap because she has dry skin, and she hates most soaps because they make her dry skin worse. (believe me, I’ve spent years listening to her complain about soaps).

Today Sara gave me a review on the above toner and a Natural Complexion Bar in Honey & Rose.

She’s not a chatterbox like me, so her reviews are nice and short. She’s been using the soap, followed by the toner for a week or so now.

Natural Complexion Bar in Honey & Rose - Sara liked both the color, scent, and feel of the soap. She notes that the soap is a little gritty, and a downside is that she wishes it were more gritty, because she likes scrubbers on her face. She thinks the soap lathered very well, and went on super smooth.

Lavender & Rose Facial Toner- She thinks I’m nutty, because she really likes how the toner smells. She notes that it smells like dandelion, not rose to her, which she enjoys, but that it might be too flowery for some people. (I still think it smelled like roses though).

Overall as a set, she thinks that this routine has left her skin feeling way less dry. Sara thinks the honey rose soap alone left her skin feeling more moisturized but with the toner it was even better. She says she still feels like she needs to moisturize her face still, but that overall the dry skin is not as big an issue.

I told her about tree points (yeah, she doesn’t read my blogs)

She said she’d give each product five out of five happy trees based on how nicely the products worked, and because her skin felt less dry. She said she highly recommends these products to others, but is concerned that others may not like the smell of the toner – that’s likely based on me not liking it. So scent is a toss up. I will say that scents are really personal, and it’s always a risk to try new body care items.

Thanks to Sara for the helpful review; even though she won’t see this

Catch up:

Visit Manor Hall Soap Company to learn more. You can also enter our Summer Scrub Down Contest to win Manor Hall products. You might also like to see my previous Manor Hall reviews; Almost Sunset Soap and Facial Cleansing Grains.

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Ingredients: Saponified oils of olive, coconut and palm. With added organic jojoba oil, and essential blend including patchouli, ylang and lemongrass. Shake of paprika for color. Rosemary OE (natural preservative).

Use: I think we all know how to use soap. I’m guessing this is supposed to be only a body bar, not face, although, just for kicks I did try it on my face (I’m brave), and no problems for me. As noted before, I use a lot of stuff though, and almost nothing bugs me, if you have sensitive skin, I’d keep this to body only.

Cost: $4.85 for a 3.5 oz bar

What I think: I love this soap – I’ve tried loads of soap in my life, and this one is in my top 5. I’m not sure what scrubby stuff is in it, but there’s a light scrubby feeling to it, but not too harsh, really gentle. The color is amazing and the scent is super me; very earthy and citrus, but not sticky sweet citrus, more on the fresh sort of spicy side of citrus. I wish they made incense – because I’d be burning my almost sunset incense all day long.

I’m not sure if someone who is scent sensitive would like this, because in the shower, the scent is strong. For me that’s a bonus, but for someone who likes less of a scent it could be an issue.

It works great too. Cleans like soap should, and leaves your skin all soft and smooth, which I’ve only found with maybe five other soap bars in my life. It makes my whole bathroom smell great, and after you get out the scent lingers really lightly on your skin.

Would I buy it?: No actually. For the last year I’ve been into body wash over bar soap, because I have this hemp scrubby washcloth I use (It’s long so you can scrub your back). That said, I’d buy the Almost Sunset organic body wash. After I use up my current body wash, I’ll absolutely be buying some because of the scent. The body wash is a little more, but still a great deal at $10.35 for 8 fl oz.

Points:

Five out of five for being perfectly scented, lovely to look at, and just the right texture. Don’t forget to read my review of Manor Hall Soap Company’s Facial Cleansing Grains. Next up a Manor Hall Soap review of a product I wasn’t so keen on, but I gave it to my best girlfriend to try, so we’ll see what she has to say too.

Visit Manor Hall Soap Company to learn more. You can also enter our Summer Scrub Down Contest to win Manor Hall products.

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in June 2008

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