Everyone loveeee a good pampering session. Some like the spa, I can’t do spa as I’m scared of being tickled. Everyone who touches me feels ticklish. No kidding! So I’m not able to enjoy spa like everyone else. But, I do like to have my own spa at home. With summer right around the corner, I am excited to know that The Body Shop introduced a fourth regime to their Spa of the World™ range, known as The New Firming Ritual. This one brings you back to the nature with its fruit extracts from forests and vines blend. Refined texture, invigorating fragrances and with uplifting regime to empower skin, body and mind.

NEW French Grape Seed Scrub Refining Body Scrub (RM169 / 350ml)

Grape Seeds are known for its benefit especially to the skin. It is also highly sought for their high polyphenol content, a powerful antioxidant known to firm the skin. The new French Grape Seed Scrub are infused with grape seed powder from France and Community Trade organic sugar from Paraguay to help invigorate, exfoliate and refine the skin. Sugar are widely used in body scrub for its benefit in stimulating circulation to promote even skin tone. It has a fresh and delicate fruity fragrance which helps to awake and revive the senses.

Did you know that the French Grape Seed Scrub are made with Community Trade organic cane sugar from the Montillo Cooperative, Paraguay? The Body Shop trade helps to provide vital employment to the local community. Farmers from the Montillo Cooperative harvest the cane by hand and use leaves for fertiliser to help protect the environment – they never use chemical fertilisers or burn the sugarcane fields, which would endanger the local wildlife.

Indian Turtle Massager Body Massage Tool (RM159)

Also new within the range is the Indian Turtle Massager. This interesting looking wood massager is developed with our Community Trade craftsmen in India. It is shaped in this turtle-looking shape as the tool gently pinches the skin to stimulate blood flow when used with a rolling massage technique. The Firming Ritual would not be completed without this tool to increase skin elasticity. The Body Shop recommended to roll the massager on the skin together with the Thai Makrut Lime Toning Oil, focusing on problems areas. Every Indian Turtle Massager are crafted from Acacia Mangium trees, by highly skilled artisans at Teddy Exports in southern India.

For more information, please visit The Body Shop Website or follow The Body Shop Malaysia Facebook Page.

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As a part of the beauty community, it is important to help and support brands that are against animal testing in cosmetic products. It is equally important to be apart in spreading the awareness. It has become alarming to know that over 80% of countries worldwide have no laws against animal testing in cosmetic products and that most countries do not require safety data based on animal test but still conduct inhumane test on animals. There are other reliable alternative resources available and The Body Shop has step up in the beauty industry game with only using innovative and effective cruelty-free ingredients in their products.

The fact is, Cruelty Free International estimates that approximately 500,000 animals are still used in cosmetics testing every year, although no necessary. Rules on animal testing in cosmetics are currently patchwork, with legislation differing around the world leaving consumers ill-informed. Traditional animal tests have never been validated for their use in reliably detecting the safety of cosmetic products and ingredients. There are now modern alternatives such as artificially grown human skin, that are, in the majority of cases, as effective as the animal test they replace and have been validated by authorities.

The Body Shop proudly launched Forever Against Animal Testing Campaign to fight for global ban on cosmetics animal testing on products and ingredients by 2020, revolutionising the beauty industry and protecting millions of animals around the world. This initiative is in partnership with Cruelty Free International, a leading non-profit organisation, which both company will be working to end animal testing. The Body Shop will take the campaign to the highest authority, the United Nations, and request an international convention banning cosmetics testing on animals.

I skipped all the massage and pampering session as I have an important task to do first – and that is to sign my petition. And I was the first one to do so

According to Jessie Macneil-Brown, Senior Manager International Campaigns and Corporate Responsibility, The Body Shop, the Forever Against Animal Testing Campaign will finish what was started back in the 1980s. They are calling on at least 8 million people from every corner of the globe who care about animal welfare to join the cause and sign the petition.

The petition can be signed online or at any of The Body Shop’s 3,000 stores across the world. Consumers are being encouraged to use the campaign hashtag, #ForeverAgainstAnimalTesting, on social media to raise awareness of the issue.

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Made with only 9 ingredients, The Body Shop Amazonian Saviour™ Multi-Purpose Balm is a multifaceted all-purpose product with good conscience. The tell-tale story on how this balm came about begins in the Amazon. For centuries, Amazonian communities that have relied on natural oils to care for their skin. This oily and balmy Amazonian Saviour™ Multi-Purpose Balm is made using 100% natural-origin formula of natural origin oils and waxes. It is said to intensely nourishes severely dry skin and helps to improve the appearance of skin marks. Be it whether it is tattooes, dry lips, skin marks, joints and many more other beneficial uses.

The 9 ingredients used are:

Community Trade-Produced Organic Baby Oil, origin from Maranhão, Brazil
Thanks to high levels of lipids, mainly lauric, myristic and palmitic acids, it is extremely moisturizing and well-known for its caring properties when it comes to helping the skin’s natural barrier. Traditionally used on dry, itchy skin with imbalance in the lipids.

Organic Andiroba Oil, origin from Maranhão, Brazil
Contains high levels of lipids, mainly oleic and palmitic acid and glycerin. Known for its emollient characteristics. Traditionally used to care and smooth stressed skin.

Bisabolol from Candei Tree
It is extracted from the bark of the candei tree and is traditionally used to smooth and nourish the skin.

Sunflower Seed Oil
It is extracted from sunflower seeds containing high levels of lipids with linoleic acid, known to moisturize and balance the skin.

Community Trade-Produced Beeswax, origin from Cameroon
Beeswax is a natural emollient, and contains ingredients that appear moisturizing by melting into the skin.

Sunflower Seed Wax
A natural softener that complements the function and properties of beeswax.

Cera Bellina Wax
A derivative of beeswax used to improve the sensory properties of the texture to make it feel more comfortable on the skin.

Vitamin E
Used as an antioxidant to prevent the oils and waxes from oxidizing and losing their scent and properties.

Citric Acid from Citrus
Used as pH adjuster in the product.

The Body Shop Global Bio-Bridge Campaign

Community Trade has been a huge part of The Body Shops. For the past 30 years, the have been purchasing high quality ingredients and accessories from skilled manufacturers around the world. Ecological Babassu Oil from Maranhão in Brazil and Beeswax are the two of the Community Trade-produced ingredients that enrich Amazonian Savior ™ Multi-Purpose Balm. The trade with The Body Shop enables a fair pay, which also supports lobbies for babassu culturing communities in order to help to protect their work and the local biological diversity.

A £1.30 from each Amazonian Savior ™ Multi-Purpose Balm sold provides assistance in building bio-bridges around the world that protect threatened species. It will also make a big difference when it comes to supporting local communities that deliver the naturally-inspired ingredients to the product. The Body Shop Amazonian Savior ™ Multi-Purpose Balm retails for RM59 here in Malaysia.

A part and parcel of The Body Shop’s numerous initiatives to help the forest and conservative of wild lives, in 2016 the company had plans for Bio-Bridge programme. The aim is to regenerate 75 million square meters of forest and protect it from exploitation, poaching and unsustainable harvest. A Bio-Bridge is able to regenerates and reconnects corridors between rainforests by linking isolated and endangered animals, allowing them to breed and thrive, as well as to help the local communities in providing a more sustainable way of life.

For Malaysia, The Body Shop is working with Wildlife Conservation Society-Malaysia (WCS-Malaysia), an international non-governmental organisation to conserve the world’s largest wild places in 15 priority regions. It is the home to more than 50% of the world’s biodiversity. A total of £46,049 has been raised and presented to WCS Malaysia from the funds collected through Christmas 2016 global Bio-Bridge campaign. These funds will be used in the conservation efforts in Endau Rompin to protect the Malayan Tigers.

The Body Shop’s Bio-Bridges program is a great example of how business can be a force for good through supporting urgent conservation activities.

For more information, please visit The Body Shop Website or follow The Body Shop Malaysia Facebook Page.

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I don’t think I have much prominent experience with The Body Shop cosmetic products. If you’ve been watching The Body Shop since many years ago, you would know that the brand had evolved in so many ways. And especially with their cosmetic range.

The Body Shop has quite an interesting eyeshadow collection. By collection I mean you can either customize your own palette to a mono eyeshadow, a quad or you can buy their eye palette and switch the shadows around. The one I’m talking about is Down To Earth Eye Palettes. I have heard so much good reviews on these eyeshadow and when I finally got around playing with the shades, I see myself nodding head in agreement. I have three Down To Earth Eye Palette quads – Go For Gold, A True Romance, Down To Earth – 03 and one mother palette, Down To Earth – Eye Palette.

Down To Earth ‘Go For Gold’ Quad (RM109)

Majority of you who are into brown shadow would love this Go For Gold quad. I mean what’s not to love? You have four versatile matte and metallic shades to create a day time to night time look easily. This palette features four tonal shades from light to dark that can be used dry as it is or wet to intensify the shades.

The mattes in Gold For Gold Quad are Sahara Dune and Amazonian Earth, while the metallic iridescent shades are Aztec Gold and Essaquira Bronze. All four shadow feels soft and buttery smooth to touch, swatch and upon application.

Down To Earth ‘A True Romance’ Quad (RM109)

When I first opened up the package, I was more excited with this A True Romance quad. I am more of a mauve shade type of girl than brown but after looking at the quad a few more times, I can tell you that this ain’t a mauve eyeshadow palette. I confirmed my own assumption after swatching them for the first time. This quad is a brown-tone quad but a cooler tone compared to Go For Gold quad. It has only one matte shade and three metallic iridescent shimmer shades, which swatches buttery smooth and beautifully. However the darkest shade in the quad – Bengal Granite has a little bit of gritty touch to it.

Is this still my favourite? Oh yes!

Down To Earth ‘Down To Earth – 03’ Smoky Grey Quad – RM109

The name of this quad ‘Down To Earth – 03’ Smoky Grey is rather longer than the rest because on the packaging it is printed as Down To Earth – 03 but on the website it is named as the Smoky Grey quad. So don’t be confuse if you are looking at this post while looking at The Body Shop website as it is the same quad.

This is a true grey palette. Interestingly, this quad has not two but three texture shadow combination – true mattes, iridescent shimmers and eye-catching sparkles. The only matte in the quad is Atlas Rhassoul. India Rose Quartz and Siberia Anthracite are both metallic iridescent, AND the beautiful Cerro Rico Silver has sparkles in it. This shadow is still soft and pigmented despite having specks of sparkles in it. You can definitely feel the gritty shimmers when touch with your finger.

This is one palette I thought I would like the least, until I tried it on. I actually like the grey on me much to my surprise. In fact I would choose this quad over A True Romance quad

Down To Earth – Eye Palette (RM149)

Currently sold out at the moment but highly recommended you to bag it if you see it in stock is the mother of all. The Down To Earth – Eye Palette. A double-quad palette with eight shades in three different finishes – true mattes, iridescent shimmers and eye-catching sparkles.

This palette has a few repeat shades from their quads – Sahara Dune and Aztec Gold from Go For Gold quad and Bengal Granite from A True Romance quad. As mentioned above, Bengal Granite has small gritty shimmers in it but not noticeable on the lid that much. My favourite shade has got to be Peru Clay. I like American eye makeup style and so a crease transition shade is like life and death to me. Of all the shades from all three quads and this palette, Peru Clay fits the transition shade bill the most. It is definitely not the typical warm brown that everyone uses as transition shade. This one has a cooler tone but on photo it is brown alright. I absolutely love this palette. It has a huge and clear mirror that I uses everytime I am using this palette. Usually you won’t see me using any eye palette mirror as I prefer a big mirror on the table, but this. This changed my routine a bit

Every shade swatches and goes on beautifully on the lid. The lighter shimmer shade would need a boost if you are into using a popping bright shade on the mobile lid (aka center of the lid) like me. So, this is when I pick the shadow up with my flat shader brush and mist the brush with makeup setting spray. This way, it intensifies the shadow to another level.

A look I did over the weekend are all used dry as I was testing these eye shadow out for the first time while photographing it as I go. What I get for being absolutely random and “go with the flow” is a warm grey look. I decided that I did not want to do any winged eyeliner as the main highlight is The Body Shop Down To Earth Eye Palettes! Notably, these shadows may swatch beautifully but I do notice that some of the shades do need a bit more effort in getting it on the lid and blending. You may find this tedious if you like a pigmented shade on the lid on first swipe but for me, I like to build the pigmentation up and blend thereafter. I find this way to be way better and easier to work with rather overdoing it on the first application. You will appreciate it if you like makeup routine as much as I do. Psstt. I can easily spend 2 hours putting on my makeup as I LOVE the process of it

These eyeshadow palettes reminds me so much of the ELF contour and blush kit. Then I tried popping the shadow out and voilá! It popped right out, confirming my curiosity that these are interchangeable. Now, that is such a great idea. I can pop the singles out and customize it into a quad for when I need to touch up when I am out.

What if you only like certain of the shades? Easy! The Body Shop do sell the casing and eyeshadow separately therefore you can customize your own preferred palette into a quad. It is slightly more costly to do so, which is normal. If so, why not take the ready quad? Each shade are selected to complement to each other.

See any quad or palette you like?

Disclaimer: Product was sent to me for review consideration. This doesn’t affect my judgement in the review in any way.

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