The Ritual of Hammam Bath and Body Care From Rituals Review – Aromatherapy Cleansing Makes Quality BathTime

You'll spend more time in your tub to savor Rituals aromatherapy cleansing.

I am one of those people that take great pleasure in a long therapeutic bath.  Surrounded by my healing oils, salts, scrubs, gels, and soaps, I savor my private time to recover after a hard day to unwind and lose myself to aromatherapy as well as cleansing.  The other day I told you about my first experience with Rituals Ayurveda line of luxurious spa like healing products.  Today, I want to fill you in on their #Hammam products I was sent for bath and body care to bring on wellness.

I started with The Ritual of Hammam Ultra Hydrating Black Soap ($15.00).  The scent of its eucalyptus is so invigorating when you spend time with it.  This is a dark soap with pure olive that slides over the body, deeply moisturizing as it cleanses, delivering skin nutrients.  During the five minutes or so that I left it on before rinsing, I benefitted from its soothing #aromatherapy and found myself relaxing.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure if I should have started with the Black Soap or The Ritual of Hamman Body Mud ($17.00) first.  Therefore, I tried the mud next.  This product also has that fresh eucalyptus scent in its thick, black consistency from its purifying Rhassoul clay.  I rubbed my body with it and left it on for about two minutes to allow its minerals to soak in before washing it off.

Afterwards, I had The Ritual of Hammam Refreshing Foaming Shower Gel ($15.00).  This is a rich, but even more stimulating foam due to its eucalyptus and rosemary that lathered well for cleaning away any lingering mud effortlessly.  

Though it was hard to leave my tub, I didn’t want my skin to shrivel and finally emerged from my peaceful bath.  I remembered I still had The Ritual of Hammam Body Mist ($25.00) to try. This really helps prolong that #spa experience with how its rosemary and eucalyptus work with your senses, revitalizing you in a way that is hard to describe.

I really like the Rituals line of bath and body with both the Ayurveda and now this Hammam line in how they work on the body and senses for balancing the body, mind and spirit. If you want to experience something more than just a bath or shower, I recommend visiting Rituals and trying these products firsthand.  They also make wonderful, thoughtful gifts when making out your holiday gift list.  Check it out!

Molton Brown Stocking Fillers Christmas Gift Collection Review: A Fragrance Gift to Savor!

This gift has 10 fragrant reasons why you'll want to spend more time in the tub.

When you intend to pamper that special someone, you want to do it right.  One gift that can never fail is a set of luxurious fragrant body washes in a glorious array of scents to match her or his moods from bright, spicy to captivating floral from Molton Brown.  A tempting bath and body set choice is their Stocking Fillers Christmas Gift Collection that I received for this review.  

This is a beautiful set in a lovely, festive red box that came complete with a bow.  Inside, there are 10 different bottles, each 1.7 fl. oz.  

The fragrances include:

Coco & Sandalwood Bath & Shower Gel – This is a gently seductive spicy blend.
Rosa Absolute Bath & Shower Gel – I feel this is an ideal floral tribute to the rose.
Orange & Bergamot Body Wash – Here is a bright citrus. 
Eucalyptus Body Wash – This one is uplifting and refreshing.
Bushukan Body Wash – Here is a scent that is woody and yet fresh.
Ylang-Ylang Body Wash – I consider this yellow floral a delight of notes.
Gingerlily Body Wash – This is an oriental floral.
Black Peppercorn Body Wash – Here is warm and spicy.
Pink Pepperpod Body Wash – This one is energetic and spicy.
Tobacco Absolute Bath & Shower Gel – This is a blend of spicy woods with a touch of sweetness.

What I appreciate about Molton Brown is that they craft their fragrances from traveling the world to bring those faraway notes to the consumer to enjoy in each bewitching composition.

If you’re shopping for a perfume lover, then you can’t go wrong with a fragrant collection of 10 outstanding bath and body products to satisfy their fragrance addiction.  Visit Molton Brown to find this Stocking Fillers Christmas Gift Collection ($50) or other great holiday gift options!

Zakia Moroccan Hammam Home Rose Spa Kit Review

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Your skin will invite caresses after using these products!

Losing yourself to a relaxing bit of private time in the tub is an essential part of my life.  I believe everyone deserves pampering for cleansing and revitalizing the skin but also as a way to reduce stress and tense muscles after a long day.  Thanks to Zakia Morocco, I experienced a bathing ritual similar to a genuine Hammam Moroccan bathhouse with their Hammam Home Spa Kit.

The Hammam Home Spa Kit ($39.99) is available in eight fragrances, but I chose the Moroccan Rose. It includes a Moroccan Black Soap, 100% Pure Organic Argan Oil, Moroccan Ghassoul Clay Mask, Loofah Leather Poof, and a Moroccan Kessa Exfoliating Glove and Toiletry Bag.

I want to try the Amber Musk Black Soap next, only in the larger 16 oz. size.

What I did was to shower first to prep my body for the Moroccan Black Soap. At first glance, this 100% natural olive oil planted based castile and argan oil soap is a murky dark green color in the jar that doesn’t look very appealing.  I dug my fingers into this rose-scented goop and slowly rubbed the product over my body.  Instead of a foamy lather like a body gel or wash, this is creamier with more light suds.  After I had everything covered, I further worked the soap in with the help of the loofah leather poof.  

There was also a jar of mineral-rich Moroccan Ghassoul Clay Mask for a deep facial or cleansing hair to get rid of lingering styling products.  This is a fine powder that I reconstituted with about two tablespoons of warm water first.  Since my complexion is on the dry side, I wanted to use this mask on my hair since I was planning to color it soon.   I worked the mask into my wet hair and left in on as well while waiting for the soap to dry.

Afterwards, I waited about five minutes until my skin tingled slightly.  This was my signal to rinse the soap off and about the right time to rinse out the hair mask.

This was my clue to work with the Kessa Exfoliating Glove.  Once against my skin, it left my body even softer than it felt after that moisturizing soap.  Using a light pressure, I rubbed my damp back and other parts as gently as possible with a back and forth motion.  In the process, some dead skin fell away. You don’t use this Kessa Glove each time only once a week.  

After giving myself one final rinsing, I dried but kept my skin slightly damp before immediately applying the Moroccan Argan Oil sparingly.  This was fast absorbing and made my skin as soft as silk from how its abundant vitamin E nourished the skin, deeply moisturizing to almost seal in the remaining drops of water like a protective coat.

Furthermore, my hair once dried was glossier and felt lighter somehow.  I really liked this product much more than a clarifying shampoo for lifting all that accumulation of hair styling products. 

I honestly loved how extra soft my skin felt using the Zakia Moroccan Hammam Spa Kit compared to a body wash or gel and a nylon pouf.  If you want incredible feeling skin, I urge you to try this kit yourself or put it on your holiday gift buying list because would be a hit by any beauty lover.  Check it out at Zakia Morocco’s website!

Review: L’Occitane en Provence’s Aromachologie Revitalizing Body Scrub & Relaxing Massage Body Oil

Disclaimer: This post is based on a free product provided by a company as a press sample so that I may offer my own opinion, which may be the same or differ from yours.

Aromachologie Revitalizing Body Scrub

After an immediate family member was rushed suddenly to the hospital, I was stressed and exhausted, especially more so once that loved one’s condition suffered further complications from the medications once admitted.  

I was going back and forth to the hospital.  Trying to care for the rest of the family and hold myself together wasn’t exactly easy when the doctors don’t have answers and your loved one’s condition only gets worse instead of improving. I wasn’t sleeping all that well or thinking about the blog, if the truth is known, but when I was preparing for my bath one of those nights, I saw those L’Occitane en Provence's Aromachologie products I set aside. 

I grabbed the Aromachologie Revitalizating Body Scrub and ran my bath.  This sugar scrub has a delicate lavender herbal scent with an uplifting note of rosemary that keeps the fragrance sweet but more therapeutic for the way it affects your senses with its essential oils as you exfoliate.

Though unwinding in a leisurely bath with this scrub soothed as it smoothed, I loved the Relaxing Massage Body Oil even more with its with sweet almond oil, rosemary and lavender essential oils because it somehow did more. Once I finished rubbing a bit of this satiny feeling oil into my skin and spraying some of this calming lavender fragrance on my pillow, I felt tired and ready to close my eyes instead of lying there preoccupied with my worrisome thoughts as I had been.   

Relaxing Massage Body Oil

This review for L’Occitane en Provence’s two Aromacologie skin care products couldn’t have arrived at a more opportune time for yours truly to test them.  Though I hope you won’t need to use them for the same reason that I did, I do recommend the Aromachologie Revitalizating Body Scrub ($34) and Relaxing Massage Body Oil ($34) for helping put you more at ease.  

Give Your Skin the Royal Treatment--Perlier Imperial Honey Body Butter (Review) #PerlierOnHSN

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Perlier Imperial Honey Body Butter

Silky, velvet-like skin doesn't come by itself.  You need to bring it on by coddling every inch of your body with the richest emollients to help it thrive.  An excellent choice for you may be Perlier's Imperial Honey Body Butter that I had the opportunity to try through iFabbo.

What makes this product so amazing for nourishing your skin is the unique honey from African black bees along with royal jelly, producing a luxurious, intensively moisturizing body butter.  This product was beautifully absorbing without leaving any greasy film on my skin, which I appreciated.  

Luscious feeling as that was, my skin felt extremely pampered and soft besides nicely scented with a complicated fragrance that borders on an oriental woody blend along with gourmand traits of that dark honey, adding a yummy chocolate element  that has warmth and a certain mystery.

I couldn't have been more pleased with Perlier's Imperial Honey Body Butter because it had incredible hydration power and a soft sensual scent that managed to linger.  A huge 6.7 oz. jar retails for $40 on HSN.  However, you can save $5.00 off that purchase of #PerlierOnHSN  when you use coupon code iFabbo5 at checkout.  

*Disclaimer:  This is my own honest opinion.  Free product was provided to facilitate this review.*