Review (4/5): Super soft skin, but oh so messy to use!!
This coffee scrub smells divine while dry, and leaves my skin smelling ever so subtly like coffee and cinnamon. Oddly, I don’t really notice the smell in the shower. I love the exfoliation and use it on my entire body. Out of the shower, I feel a mild oil barrier on my skin that I don’t care for. Once I add my normal body shaping cream (Clarins Body Fit), I’m in heaven! The 2 products together leave my skin super cool and tingly for about an hour, followed by crazy soft skin. I don’t actually have a lot of cellulite (thank you Clarins!), but what I do have is less noticeable after just 2 uses. So, what’s not to like? This scrub is so incredibly messy, it’s borderline impractical! Most scrubs are made with sugar or salt crystals held together with some form of oil or gel, and dissolve in the shower. Ground coffee doesn’t dissolve and this scrub is dry, so it literally gets everywhere...like sand from the beach! And worse, I have a walk in shower with white tile floors...coffee stains if it sits too long! As much as I like the way this product smells and improves my skin texture, it’s a pain in my cellulite free backside to clean up! Mixing it with a little water and creating a paste before use helps a little, and thankfully I have a handheld shower to quickly rinse it off my tiled walls and shower door, but I’m constantly concerned it’s going to stain my floor grout. Deep sigh...I soooooo wish this product weren’t so messy!