Innovative Food-Inspired Spa & Beauty Products
- Published: Friday, March 18th 2011
- in Beauty
Indulge your senses with these unique food-inspired products from four great bath and beauty lines. The innovative mixtures of ingredients take food and drink products that we already love and give us a new way to savor the scents, flavors, and benefits of glorious food!
Big Shampoo: Scoop it out with this jar of salty solid shampoo, which lathers quite nicely. The salt gives you beachy-keen hair, while seaweed strengthens hair from the roots, and lime gives your mane a sleek shine. Use every couple of days for best results! ($22.95 for 11.6 oz.)- Okra Conditioner: We love okra in our jambalaya, and were inquisitive to say the least when we caught wind of this retro Lush product (only available online). While not for everyone, if you’re curious, give it a try. The smell is rather earthy, with ingredients like okra, mountain grapes, nettles, lavender, balsamic vinegar, and rosemary oil, and at first, the conditioner can seem thin, but many love this product claiming it does wonders for their tangly hair. ($26.95 for 16.9 fl. oz.)
- Olive Branch Shower Gel: Featuring Fair Trade olive oil, fresh mandarin juice, sea salt, bergamot oil, lemon oil, and gardenia extract, this shower gel has a slight perfume scent with a hint of musk. Be sure to shake the bottle before using and know that a little can go a long way. ($26.95 for 16.9 fl. oz.)
- Tahitian Lime Soy Candle: This hand-poured soy candle burns longer and cleaner than regular candles, and the Tahitian Lime scent will carry you off to the tropics. We love the crisp and fruity fragrance and the uniqueness of lime in a candle! ($24.50)
- Wasabi Mint Soy Candle: Sure, we enjoy wasabi with our sushi, but in a candle? The scents of Archipelago’s line of signature soy candles don’t fail to offer creative and unique fragrances, and we can’t get enough! ($24.50)
- Mango Sugar Bath & Body Products: From sugar-based body wash with pure mango extract to Mango Body Butter made with sugar, pure mango extract, and shea butter, this line of mango products is a tropically decadent way to pamper your skin. ($22-$25)
- Bourbon Bubbler Body Scrub: Bourbon is
not only blowing up in the kitchen, but we’re seeing bourbon in the bath more and more. With coarse brown sugar, Kentucky whiskey, Vitamin E, and rice bran oil, this delicious scrub removes dead skin and stimulates new cell growth. ($34 for 12 oz.) - Pumpkin-Fortified Splendid Dirt Mask: We love pumpkin masks all year long, and this Splendid Dirt nutrient-rich mud mask is no exception. With yogurt cultures, organic pumpkin puree, two types of clay, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, this mask will surely feed your skin. ($20 for 3 oz.)
- Honey and Oat Pajama Paste Active Yogurt Mask: This 99%-natural yogurt mask helps to detox, purify, and tone skin, and brings the spa experience home. Formulated for normal to dry skin types, Pajama Paste contains bentonite clay, yogurt cultures, natural oats, and wild honey to moisturize, exfoliate, soothe, and soften. ($20, 3-oz. jar)
- Bourbon Vanilla Foaming Bath Milk: See – bourbon is everywhere, and we love it! This bath milk features wild-harvested vanilla from Madagascar. Massoia bark extract improves circulation and litsea cubeba fruit tones and clarifies. ($26 for 8.4 oz.)
- Pear Fig Polishing Enzyme Peel: This product is chock-full of food ingredients, with lactic acid being the main featured ingredient. Lactic acid stimulates natural moisturizers in the skin while pear puree, jojoba beads, fig fruit, blackberry leaf, and cranberry seed oil work together to remove dead skin cells and nourish the skin. ($52 for 1.7 fl. oz)
- Lemongrass Mimosa Body Scrub: Suitable for all skin types, this exfoliating body scrub features lemongrass oil, walnut shells, shea butter, and bamboo to remove dull, dry skin. Exotic and seductive scents of mimosa, jasmine and ylang ylang complete this uplifting product. ($18 for 2 oz.; $28 for 5 oz.)
