Carousels and Couture

In February 2012, The Body Shop released a set of chocolate-themed bath products in time for Valentines Day. The Chocomania body collection includes a heart-shaped soap, shower cream, body scrub, body lotion, body butter, lip butter, and a bag of hearts. Even better still, the Chocomania collection has been integrated into the usual collections and are available all year round. So now I can stock up whenever I want to instead of waiting for a clearance sale, or a special event.  According to their website, the products "contain fair trade ingredients like cocoa butter, sugar, honey, coconut oil, and shea to help hydrate and protect dry epidermises". The Body Shop has always been so environmentally conscious so I always feel pleased to buy from them. The Body Shop's previous attempts with chocolate hasn't exactly been appetizing (I'm looking at you, cocoa butter and brazil nut) so I was a little apprehensive about how this collection would turn out. But ...

  There was a point in time where I was completely obsessed with The Body Shop. I'd stalk their shops and go to every single sale they held, and come away with bags of products. Body lotions, butters, scrubs, shower gels, they would litter my bathroom and work space. My office colleagues would stop by my desk after lunch and help themselves to hand lotion. And I would love every single one of them, even if I tried them and hated the products. Now I've grown a tad more sensible, and given away the items I didn't like and kept the ones I do like. And one of them is the Papaya Body Butter.   In Singapore, where the weather is hot all year round and winter never comes, body lotions are not really popular. What more body butters, which are even thicker in consistency than body lotions? Even when i was working in a freezing office, and still was exposed to air-con at home, my skin has never needed anything more richer than a body lotion. Which is why I use my body butter ...