Elderflower and Trees of Tea

I popped into The Body Shop on my lunch break today, on the intention of having a look at their new line of lipsticks that I've been reading about on certain blogs. Well, it turns out those UK blogs I've been reading have clearly blogged about UK releases and so I was too early for those precious lip products, but it had been so long since I last went into The Body Shop, there were a number of things catching my eye. Alas, as the time for my lunch break is limited, I only played with a few things, and what I humbly settled on was the Elderflower Unperfumed Eye Gel and the Tea Tree Skin Clearing Toner. Had I more time to browse, I would have picked up a body oil and probably some skincare for the hubby, as they had quite the range of male skincare products what with father's day nearing and all.

I've never actually had a lot of products from The Body Shop, be it skincare or bodycare or makeup. But I have had a couple of products from each section, and while they all did their job pretty damn adequately, they never super-wowed me or maybe it was due to my younger self not realizing that these products were actually decent considering the prices for them. I don't know what really enticed me to pick up these two products, but I guess I needed a new eye cream and I always love toner. 

This Tea Tree Skin Clearing Toner is interesting, in that you have to "shake to activate". I chose the tea tree toner out of all their others, simply because tea tree has done wonders for my skin in clearing up any acne and it's an anti-bacterial too. I used this sucker tonight, and oh boy, it cleaned up my face like nothing before. It was really gentle on the skin though, with a very lotion-y scent of course with a hint of tea tree, but that cotton pad had so much dirt (embarrassingly) after I swiped it all over my face. So I swiped another pad with the toner on it all over again, and it was still very nice; my skin didn't feel stripped, but it was clean and toned and just nice.

The eye cream, or should I say gel was a pretty easy pick. I saw it on the shelf, with the nice clear jar and the nice black lid and I love simple packaging. It's unperfumed and practically odourless (besides a faint smell of elderflower, which is faint in itself) and so ridiculously lightweight, I'm guessing most of the weight comes from the jar itself rather the product. A very smooth gel, I swatched this on my hand in the store and it absorbed in really, really nicely, a tad sticky that went away, and my skin felt smooth where I applied it and, again, just nice. It really feels like the perfect gel.

I will clearly be popping back into The Body Shop sometime soon. I mean, I must have missed so much stuff since the last time I was there. And if the rest of their range, especially the tea tree range, is as promising as what I tried out tonight, then I will definitely be going back to pick up some other skincare essentials such as cleanser and moisturizer. Probably pick up some goodies for the boyfie too!