Bath and Body Works Skin Firming Body Treatment: OUCH! It Burns!
Written: Sep 25 '04
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Pros: Great moisturizer, lovely scents
Cons:
It burns my eyes! Not cheap, DOESN’T WORK! Huge pain to use!
The Bottom Line: Stay away…stay far, far away.
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| Tigerlily137's Full Review: Bath & Body Works Skin Firming Body Treatment |
The past several months, every where I look I see new anti-aging, skin firming lotions popping up all over the place. Finally, I gave in and picked up a bottle of Bath and Body Works Skin Firming Body Treatment for $14.00.
I bought the Coconut Lime Verbena because I’m absolutely obsessed with tropical, fruity smell ever since they introduced this line. The best thing about BBW is that you can get the same products in a huge variety of scents. Other great selections include: Warm Vanilla Sugar, Sweet Pea, Moonlight Path, Cucumber, Cotton Blossom, and Mango Mandarin.
www.bathandbodyworks.com describes this product as an Advanced body treatment clinically proven to improve skin’s elasticity, firmness and resilience in just four weeks.
I can’t think of a woman I know that could honestly say that there is no part of her body that she wouldn’t like to firm up, and many of them have the same problem area as I do: thighs and butt. That’s the main area this product is recommended for, the other body part suggested are the upper arms. I don’t really have a problem in that area, but I figured that it couldn’t hurt to apply a little there anyway.
So I take this product home and start using it that night. It comes in a 8 oz bottle with a pump lid that you can twist around to lock when traveling so you don’t get lotion all over the rest of your luggage. That’s a plus right away! I want to make this bottle last the whole four weeks, so I only apply the lotion to the aforementioned areas of my body. The lotion is white and creamy, and doesn’t leave my skin feeling oily. As a matter of fact, it’s a great lotion. My skin feels soft and moisturized for several hours, as well as the added bonus of the great scent. So far, so good. Now, I hop into bed, and like many others at nighttime I start rubbing my eyes. I don’t actually even rub the eyes themselves too much, mainly the skin around them. The reaction I got was not good-it burns like crazy the second you even come near any orifice! So, I got up, thoroughly washed the lotion off of my hands (not an easy task, it takes several soapy washed to come off completely), and wash out my eyes to stop the burning. Mental note…do not do that again!
Week 1: I use this lotion twice a day, morning and night, like recommended, even though it is a huge pain to go through the motions of lotioning up, washing hands thoroughly, and then putting in/taking out my contacts. No improvement noted after 7 days and 14 uses.
Week 2: I’m down to using this product once one day, and then twice the next day. This lotion really makes my legs feel nice and smooth, but it’s really becoming a huge hassle as part of my daily routine. Plus, I have to make sure not to even touch the area I moisturized after washing my hands, because even that will irritate my eyes. My butt does look pretty nice after the 14th day, but I’m going to attribute that to the impromptu 9 mile mountain hike my husband I went on two days before, and the extra squats and lunges I’ve been doing at the gym.
Week 3 I’m barely using this lotion once a day every two days or so now. I’m still not seeing any real proof that this lotion is working.
Week 4 I give up!!! The burning sensation is just to much of a burden! Do you know how crazy it is to use lotion, wash your hands 3 times, and then use a different lotion on your hands because you’ve been drying them out extra lately? Not to mention that I’m using a completely separate lotion on the rest of my body! Oh, my God, this product is such a pain! I’ve decided that there is no way on earth that this lotion is even going to produce minimal results, and I’m putting myself through pure torture just trying to use it daily.
Based on the above information, I cannot recommend Bath and Body Works Skin Firming Body Treatment to anyone! You’re best bet is just to stick with the gym.
~~~Ingredients~~~
Water (aqua), butylenes, glycol, cetyl ethylhexanoate, c12-15 alkyl benzoate, dicaprylyl maleate, fragrance (parfum), glycereth-7, glyceryl stearate, PEG-100 stearate, cetyl alcohol, coco’s nucifera (coconut) extract, gellidiela acerosa extract, hypnea musciformus extract, sargassum filipendula extract, lippia citrodora (lemon verbena) flower extract, gillidelia acerose extract, caffeine, methylsilanol mannuronate, siloanetriold alginate, sorbitol, tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E acetate), dimethicone, stearic acid, propolyn glycol, styrene/acrylates copolymer, trybutly citrate, carbomer, triethanolomine, buteth-3, sodium benzotriazolyl butylphenol sulfonate, butlyparaben, ethylparaben, methylparaben, prohylparaben, mica (ci 77019) titanium dioxide, (ci 77891)
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No
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