telophase | Bath & Body Works: Breathe: Ginger Verbena Scrub

With deeply hydrating shea butter and a blend of active oat and protective antioxidants, this super-rich body cream deeply nourishes skin, providing all-day moisture. Enjoy its exhilarating fragrance and let it invigorate your senses.
Domestic.

* 24 hr. Moisturization
* Provides a protective barrier without leaving skin feeling greasy
* Includes Breathe Moisture Complex, which contains vitamins and antioxidants
* Ginger Verbena fragrance instills pure energy

IT'S NOT THE FUCKING FRAGRANCE THAT'S INSTILLING THE ENERGY. IT'S WHATEVER CHEMICAL YOU FUCKERS PUT IN IT THAT'S MAKING IT TINGLE SO BAD I FEEL LIKE I'M IN A FUCKING SNOWSTORM.

It's not caused by ginger because there is no real ginger or verbena in here. I know because I have the Curse of Lemon Pledge and both ginger and verbena turn to the scent of Lemon Pledge. This would feel amazingly good in the middle of a heatwave, but it's fucking February and it's NOT GOOD RIGHT NOW.

I believe I shall be putting this away until, say, July.

And if it doesn't get any better soon, I'm going back into the shower and GETTING IT OFF ME.

ETA: The culprit has been IDed! Menthoxypropanediol, which according to this page, in a Vaseline solution, which is basically what this scrub is - a goopy-type thing with sugar in it - is twice as strong as menthol, and lasts twice as long. It's almost compltely gone now, 1.5 hours after the shower. Yay.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Did the package from me ever get there? We've had some issues with our mail carrier, and I haven't received the delivery confirmation.

If not, I'll make you up some more and either Fed Ex the darn thing, or drop it off in person.

Yes, yes it did! I am being horrible with letting people know things that were mailed got to me lately. Thank you! XD

Excellent :D We've had some netflix movies and orders of smelly goodies and such...mysteriously wanish into the ether. Our post office knows nothing, of course.

Naturally. The only problem I've ever had was a package of BPAl that vanished for six weeks, enough for me to contact the seller and have her send me some new stuff in compensation (I didn't ask - she offered), and then *both* packages arrived on the same day. XD So I paid her for the second batch - only fair, after all. :D

I am so sorry. I am so sorry because I'm still snickering. And I've done that to myself, albeit with the Lush minty soap Demon in the Dark rather than lotion, and let's just say maybe one really shouldn't use that soap everywhere... so I swear that it's at least sympathetic amusement. ;D

What'd they do, spike your lotion with menthol?

I'm wondering. The ingredients don't have any menthol in it, but it's probably hiding behind some long chemical name.

And to think that I bought this in desperation at the dry-skin-itchy that I had today that was driving me insane. This isn't any better. At least I'm at home, where I can get back in the shower.

It being a scrub, there were placed I didn't use it, for which I am ever-grateful. My back and the backs of my thighs have it worst of all right now.

I am sending you prompt anti-suffering wishes, I truly am. I hope the shower gets it back off!

P.S. Your package arrived today. Yay! Thank you for being so much fun with which to trade cash for smells! And thanks for the candy & stickers. :D

P. P. S. Also, things smell tentatively good to me. Double yay!

It seems to be mostly gone now, so I have hope that I won't need to take my third shower of the day. XD

And: yay! XDDD

Tea tree oil, maybe? Peppermint? My face cleanser does that, but it's Burt's Bees, so I'm pretty sure whatever's causing it (I forget the ingredients) is a natural effect, but I wouldn't trust Bath and Body Works not to include chemicals...

AHAHAHA. I think I found the culprit: Menthoxypropanediol. I don't know what it is, but it starts with "mentho" so I bet it's menthol-type stuff. There's some long-winded chemical names near the bottom of the ingredients, probably preservatives, but there's an amazing amount of ingredients whose names I recognize - avocado oil, wheat germ oil, soybean, safflower, etc. And Royal Jelly Extract, of all things. SOMEWHERE SOME PRINCESS BEE IS NOT LIVING UP TO HER DREAM OF BECOMING A BEAUTIFUL QUEEN JUST SO I CAN HAVE NON-ITCHY SKIN!

Yep, that's it. Google says that that ingredient is used in cosmetics to provide a "cooling, enhancing effect." I hope that it doesn't do everything menthol does, since that stuff dries you out badly. Kind of defeats the purpose of lotion, but is a great marketing ploy.

http://www.leffingwell.com/cooler_than_menthol.htm - Twice as strong, too. :)

It's part of a sugar scrub, actually, so you scrub off the top layer of your skin with it in the shower, and it leaves a lot of teh oil/wax type stuff behind, to protect the skin. And I added a lotion after I dried off, so my skin is at least extra-soft right now. :) It will remain to be seen if getting the top layer of dry skin off actually does anything for my INSANE ITCHING.

eeeeek o.o;

i really need to see if i can find some good hand lotion/cream... the skin on the back of my hands is peeling, despite the fact that i'm lotioning them every night. -_-;

Post and remind me tomorrow and I'll tell you the name of the stuff I have at work. It's like hand spackle. XD

You probably want to find a hand scrub and use that before lotioning - it'll take the peeling layer off, and then you can use the lotion on the layer underneath, to hopefully keep it from starting to peel. Yes, it's winter and therefore my knuckles are red, raw, and in places bleeding, so I am a conissieur of sort of hand-care products. XD

ooo, thank you. ^^ i've had this problem for a while but i haven't been able to find someone who knows how to get it taken care of. ^^;

Here we go - it's Miracle Hand Repair by Miracle of Aloe. I think Mom got it a Linens-n-Things, at least their website (http://www.lnt.com/sm-as-seen-on-tv-miracle-hand-repair-tube-8oz-creme--pi-1360037.html) has it, but you can also get it oline here (http://www.drugstore.com/qxp84742_333181_sespider/miracle_of_aloe/miracle_hand_repair_cream.htm).

If you go to a Bath & Body Works type place, you can find several different hand scrubs that will get the top layer of skin off. :)

thank you! i'll have to go get some of that, then. :)

Bath and body works wonky ingredients is the Number One reason I now make my own lotion. It's a bit of a pain, but at least I know what I'm getting. Shudder. I hate unexpected reactions like that.

It was slow to come on, too. It started a bit of a tingle as the shower was ending, and then as I towwled off, started coming on more, and was in full-blown OH GOD IT'S FREEZING IN HERE mode about ten minutes later. Took an hour and a half to completely go away. *shudder*

Bath & Body Works: Breathe: Ginger Verbena Scrub

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject