This short week has absolutely flown by. I’ve been having a wonderful sunshine-filled week that feels like a vacation. My fun aunt visited for a few days, I went out to dinner with an old friend I haven’t seen in a while, and yesterday I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with the members of my book club. One of the women in our group volunteers as a docent at the Museum, and she gave us her “Ancient Worlds” tour with information about artifacts from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. It was both fascinating and a lot of fun. I hope you’ve been having a good week as well.
So, today’s Friday Find post will be short and sweet. Literally. In my empties post yesterday, I mentioned that I finished up Aloe Body Butter from The Body Shop and that I will repurchase that unscented butter again one of these days. But recently, I took advantage of The Body Shop’s 40% off with free shipping promotion to buy the new Banana Body Butter, a limited edition for summer.
The Banana Body Butter is formulated with ripe organic banana puree from Ecuador. I found this next bit of information on The Body Shop website kind of interesting and amusing: it’s made from “bananas of all shapes and sizes that won’t sell in the food industry”. Not entirely sure why they mentioned it.
The Body Shop Banana Body Butter is natural, vegan and cruelty free. Because it’s thick, rich and nourishing, it’s recommended for normal to dry skin. Like many body lotions and butters, it moisturizes for 24 hours. It works well for my dry skin. It’s smooth, applies easily, sinks in quickly, and is greaseless. It leaves my skin feeling plumped and protected. Nice.
It comes in a travel size (1.69 oz.) and full size (6.75 oz.). The non-sale prices are $7 and $21, respectively. I went for the full size.
I love the fun pink, yellow and black label adorned with bananas, the banana yellow jar, and the pale yellow cream. I would describe the scent as tropical drink banana rather than the actual fruit, banana. It smells like it has some coconut and pineapple mixed in with the banana. It’s sweet and smells like summer in a jar. This is a body butter that I use when I’m not going to wear perfume. The long-lasting tropical banana drink scent from the Banana Body Butter is all the fragrance I need. I may not want to smell like this during the rest of the year, but it’s perfect for now.
The new banana scented line also include shampoo, conditioner, hair mask, and the new lightweight 48 hour gel-cream body yogurt. Yum. The new hair products from the “Truly Nourishing” line are also made with ripe banana puree and are either vegetarian or vegan. I think I have to try the shampoo and conditioner this summer as well.
Do the banana-scented body and hair products appeal to you, or not so much?
On a different topic, I hope you’ll check out the Memorial Day edition of Fashion Flash, and the lovely tribute to fallen heroes from our talented host, Sheila from Painted Ladies. This week, you can read about:
- a pore-reducing face mask
- how to keep your feet comfortable in your shoes
- travel to the French naval town Rochefort
- how to take care of yourself when you’re a caregiver
- shortcuts to happiness
- how to get strong bones in midlife
- how to care for your décolleté
- how to make a yummy vegan cream sauce that’s perfect for Italian recipes
- and three new natural, mineral SPF 50 sunscreens.
Derma E Giveaway Winner
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Thank you all for entering, following, subscribing, and tweeting. I really appreciate it.
And if you didn’t win this time, not to worry. I have 3 more skincare product giveaways coming up shortly, one next week. So check back, and please enter the next one!
This is 100% NOT for me, I dislike everything about bananas; the smell, the taste, the texture. LOL!
LOL, Shireen! You’re the first person I’ve met who doesn’t like bananas 😀
I NEED this right now! I have a weird love for banana scented things.
The Banana Body Butter looks and sounds delicious! Perfect for summer!
Perfect for banana lovers!
I’m definitely not a fan of bananas, the fruit or the scent. But I do like many of The Body Shop products.
That body butter sounds so scrumptious and the packaging is cute, too!
The Ancient Worlds tour sounds lovely. Egypt is on my bucket list. I’ve done the others, and planned a trip but that was when they had unrest in the area, and I gave up the idea. The body butter looks so rich and nourishing!
I agree, Renu, too much unrest. I would love to go to Egypt, but I don’t feel comfortable going there now.
I luuuurrve the scent of bananas.. I need to feel this!!
The Banana Body Butter is thick and rich like all the butters from The Body Shop. I want to check out the new Body Yogurt gel cream next.
Give me all the banana scented things! I wNt to try the yogurt. Your week sounds lovely. I have a busy week next week!
I want to try the Body Yogurt too – it sounds so perfect because it’s a gel cream. Hope your busy week goes well, Judy!
I like that they sell it in a travel size for people like me who don’t finish things quickly and are never sure if I’ll like the fragrance. I do love the smell of bananas though.
I agree that having the travel size is a good thing. The banana scent definitely smells like a tropical drink 🙂
I need this immediately! I’m obsessed with banana scented things!
Then you’d love this banana-y line!
I love banana scented stuff! I want to try the whole line!!
Me too, Kristi! Glad to know you’re another banana fan 😉
You said my three favorite words: Coconut, pineapple, banana. Need it!
You’d love it!
Mmm this sounds so wonderful!
Ooh, that’s nice of them to mention, it means that TBS is trying to reduce the food waste! I watched a documentary about that recently. Apparently a lot of perfectly good food is being literally thrown away by farmers because the produce does not meet the shape and size standards, so the stores wouldn’t buy it. Such a waste! Nowadays there are organizations that are trying to prevent that by taking the misshapen goodies and distributing them for free among low income families, but it’s still not a wide spread practice. The majority of the unfortunate “defected” fruit and veggies are still thrown straight into the dumpster 🙁
Thank you, Anastasia, for explaining the issue about food waste to me! I had no idea that fruits and vegetables that weren’t perfect were thrown away. How ridiculous and terrible especially with people who need food and wouldn’t care about perfection. I’m glad that The Body Shop is utilizing a resource that would otherwise be thrown out.
I like to eat bananas, but the smell is a bit of a turn off for me. I do need to see what other options they have, particularly in the travel size, since that would be very useful for me.
Banana scented body butter, yes please!!! This sounds amazing!!!
I hate banana scented stuff so pass for me, but the ingredients sound luxe!
This would be most interesting!
I am not a banana fan, no no, but the texture looks so good, I need to research other scents!
Definitely need to smell this! I love all things bananas!
This is my favorite mask from FHF!
If you like the FHF banana mask, you might love this banana body butter from The Body Shop 😉
That sounds lovely! I haven’t used anything from The Body Shop in ages. Banana does great things for my skin so I’d definitely try this.
It’s so rich. And with the banana scent, you don’t need to wear perfume 😉