I am a big fan of honey based products and seem to be amassing quite a collection! So when the new Honeymania range was released by The Body Shop a few weeks ago, I knew I had to make a purchase. For the sake of not spending too many pennies, I decided to just pick up the shower gel, which costs £4.00 for 250ml. I popped into town one day after work but was in quite a rush, so I literally just walked in, picked up a shower gel and went straight to the till. I was so excited to use it the next morning, but my excitement quickly turned to disappointment...
As with all the other The Body Shop shower gels, this has a nice, thick formula which lathers up really easily without needing to use too much. However my disappointment is with the scent. I naturally expected it to smell of honey - though perhaps a little sweeter and more artifical. The scent you actually get is very musky with a subtle honey note. Having now looked at The Body Shop's website, they describe their Honeymania Shower Gel as having a "rich, floral scent" containing honey made from "the nectar of thousands of wildflowers". Looking at the ingredient list, Parfum/Fragrance is the fifth ingredient, followed by Miel/Honey.
I will use the Honeymania Shower Gel, but I wish I had looked at the website description or taken the time to give it a quick sniff in store, as I don't think I would have bought it if I had.
Have you tried anything from The Body Shop Honeymania range?
Beauty Bird xx
I actually love the scent and from the whole range everything smells like honey except the Body Butter which is more floral. :)
ReplyDeleteThere's definitely a whiff of honey there but for me the musky floral scent is too overpowering xx
DeleteI love The Body Shop's shower gels but this sounds like it might be a bit of a miss. Maybe some of the other products in the range smell better?
ReplyDeleteHayley
Water Painted Dreams xxx
I haven't smelt any of their other Honeymania products, so hopefully the other ones in the range smell more honey-like!xx
DeleteAh that's a pity I like this but I didn't know what to expect so I found the scent quite appealing!
ReplyDeleteI think it is simply because I was expecting a scent more natural and true to honey. The shower gel itself is nice though xxx
DeleteIt does smell quite floral for being a honey product, and it's not what I expected from the range either. Xx
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I know honey and flowers are linked, but I agree, it's not really what you'd expect!xx
DeleteI agree that the range doesn't smell of honey but I love the floral scent - the bath melt in particular is amazing! xxx
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you like it hun! xx
DeleteWhat a shame about the lack of honey scent Sasha - my mum loves honey products too. I must go into the shop and have a whiff now just out of curiosity! xx
ReplyDeleteYeah I definitely recommend doing that Jenny, I wish I had done that first!xx
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