Review (1/5): Really, really terrible
So I understand some people are concerned over the safety of paraffin baths, and sometimes paraffin can feel drying. I thought this would be a good option to try and have heard some positive things about soy wax baths.
It was a terrible idea. And an even worse idea to try it out for the first time with a household of teenage girls at a birthday party.
So first off, although the birthday girl had been shown how to properly use a wax bath (albeit with paraffin at the time), the other girls took it upon themselves to dive headlong into the experience. This is not the wax’s fault, so the many drips and drops of wax I’m still finding = teenagers.
How to explain why *this* wax was bad...ok....if you have ever used a paraffin bath, you know that after the wax has had time to set for a while and cool off, it basically slides or peels off of your hand (foot, elbow, etc).
THIS wax, does not do that. THIS wax becomes very sticky to your skin (or whatever else in comes into contact with) and tries to become part of you. You have to scrape it off either something, but still have a coating of wax left on your skin.
If you are a 15 year old girl, and know it is not coming off how it is supposed to, you panic and go to the sink to try to wash it off. BUT, when the wax gets cold, it doesn’t just get hard and flake off, because it is Santa Venetia SoyWorks soy wax, it still stays slightly malleable and it still sticks to skin like it’s life (had it a life) depends on it.
So if you are this teenage girl (which now there are at least 4 realizing there is an issue and freaking out) you start scratching it off in small chunks with your fingernails into the garbage disposal...because you are a teenage girl and do not know that this is VERY bad for said garbage disposal.
I actually had to get out a scrub daddy and dish soap to work this wax off of their hands...yes, seriously, it was that awful.
All teenagers survived, the garbage disposal recovered and just to be sure I gave it a fair chance, I tried the wax again a week later, doing everything you are supposed to, just in case it was a horrible case of ‘because...teenage girls’. I was prepared for the worst and sadly, not disappointed. It took half an hour to get the wax off, so into the trash with the rest of it. I still can’t get it all off of my machine.
As the title says...really, REALLY terrible idea.