Review (1/5): I wanted to like these soooo much…but nope, sorry
[[VIDEOID:dcc1995803f2ea0bca73889e0d891af]] I got the ikikin Soft Silicone Bath brush for two reasons: 1) replace my exfoliating face scrub and 2) replace my body wash pouff. It sadly didn’t work for either purpose.
There are two sides on the brush: one has little silicone fingers for regular exfoliation, and the other has…well, I don’t know what to call it. The manufacturer says it has “short” bristles but it doesn’t. They claim you can use it for deep exfoliation but I don’t see how. It doesn’t have any holes on that side so the inside sponge can’t get any soap on to that side. So it just kind of rubbed my skin raw because of the dryness…and not in a good way.
As for the side with the little silicone fingers…that does, indeed, have some holes to let the sponge inside squeeze the soap foam out. But I had to really squeeze the brush several times to get anything out onto the surface of the brush…and then had to keep stopping and squeezing some more. I also didn’t like the texture of the fingers. It’s more of a rubbing feeling than an exfoliating feeling. Way too rough on my face (and I use apricot scrub normally so I’m used to a lot of exfoliation). And not flexible enough to go around the curves on the rest of my body.
As for the sponge inside…putting body wash on the outside as recommended means you waste a lot of body wash because it will run right off the silicone. I squeezed my body wash onto the sponge itself on the inside, and that worked better…but as I mentioned before it still took a lot of squeezing after that to get the foam back out on the outside. I also had hoped that I could put my little leftover slivers of bar soap in there and use those up…but squeezing the brush to get the foam started just broke up the slivers and didn’t do much else.
So no for me.