It's true to say that I'm currently a little obsessed with all things
Caudalie
This French Skincare brand has been on my beauty "Wish List" for several years
now and finally after my last two overseas trips I am now the proud owner of not
one or two products, but literally around 12 Caudalie products.
I've even declared March Caudalie Month on my blog, so expect a glut of reviews.
Sadly we only have one Official retailer here in South Africa Skins Cosmetics and having bought a couple
of products there, it is obviously cheaper to purchase overseas,
but I didn't find the prices at Skins Cosmetics to be too exorbitant unlike
the 3rd retailer websites we have here in SA.
Here is some background to the brand...
The skin care brand Caudalie was founded by Mathilde Thomas and her husband Bertrand. The story starts in Bordeaux (France), at the heart of the vineyards on the family estate. The vine and grapes possess exeptional powers for the skin - powers which were simply waiting to be developed. 'Do you know that you are throwing away treasures?" This sentence changed Mathilde's life. It marks the meeting with Professor Vercauteren. He is one of the world's specialists in Polyphenols and has been the scientific advisor of the research centre since the creation of Caudalie. Ever since the brand was created, products were created with the maximum amount of natural ingredients that respect the environment. In 2006, Mathilde took the decision to remove parabens from all their products.
Armed with my Caudalie shopping list the
Caudalie Crushed Cabernet Scrub
was on the very top.
As with the face, a weekly or twice weekly body exfoliation is the key to
anti-ageing and it's a practise that I've performed for literally "10's" of years
and I never find it a chore, as I just adore the way your skin feels afterwards.
Crushed Cabernet Scrub
is Caudalie's signature Vinothérapie Spa scrub
and a day visit to their Spa in Bordeaux is on my bucket list and has been for
several years.
(it does help that my sister lives a 2 hour drive away making it more of a possibility)
Enriched with crushed grape-seeds and 6 essential oils, this natural body exfoliator
leaves the skin smooth, soft and nourished.
I want my body scrubs to give a good invigorating exfoliation and the brown sugar and crushed grapes seeds do just that, however if you prefer the more gentle approach
then just mix with more water to soften the exfoliation effect.
This scrub does have that typical divine spa fragrance and these energizing and invigorating notes are naturally derived from lemon, lemongrass, rosemary and juniper berries.
The final inclusion of a good dollop of Honey helps this scrub to soften the skin
and replenish that all important Hydro Lipidic layer.
Apply twice a week to wet skin.
Warm the scrub in your hands and massage the whole body in circular motions from bottom to top until
the sugar has completely melted, then rinse.
As with all exfoliation products follow with a moisturising product.
This product contains 99% ingredients of natural origin.
And as with all Caudalie products, no parabens, phenoxyethanol, phthalates,
mineral oils or animal-derived ingredients are used.
Thankfully I wasn't disappointed with this body scrub at all and it lived up to all of my expectations.
I adore the packaging, the aesthetics of the product, the beautiful aroma and more importantly the polishing effects.
It reminded me very much of the Clarins Tonic Body Polisher, but even better.
I did review the Clarins Tonic Body Polisher back in 2017and it made it onto my
Top 3 Body Products of that year, so if you love that polisher then I'm sure you
will love this one from Caudalie just as much as I do...
Caudalie
Crushed Cabernet Scrub
150mls
R
Unfortunately the Skins Cosmetics website has been down for weeks now
so I cannot give you a Rand price.
£
22
€
22.50
$
38
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