Scrubbing Up! (in a leaky shower) with Isle of Eden
My usually relaxing and luxurious showers have been made stressful and short of late: our home has a leaky tub drain. Thank goodness the home inspector found it. I learned a lot during the home buying process, but one of the most important factors is to try to cut through the ‘halo effect’ fresh paint and styling can give a house, and look for the flaws. Fortunately, for an 80 year old structure, the flaws we inherit with homeownership are (we think) fixable and/or manageable.
Anyway - our showers take place in one of those “tub/shower enclosures” - probably the original was a claw-foot beast, long on style and history, but short on leg room and functionality. One of the plus sides of this enclosure are the built in shelves - three in each corner. Adding the three-shelf metal storage unit from our old apartment makes it possible to have all my scrubs, bath whips, bath bombs, and shave creme right at hand.
I was content to stay forever with my Skindecent Sheen Appeal scrubs. But, in the name of science, I have been branching out. Isle of Eden makes a dizzying array of scrubs, foaming or traditional, with different scrubbies made of salt, sugar, jojoba beads, grains…and then the scents!
In any case, first up on my list is the Isle of Eden Turbinado Sugar scrub. Turbinado is a less refined sugar, with cylindrical grains. If you’ve tried “Sugar in the Raw”, it’s more like that. After a four hour stint in my community garden, I was incredibly dirty! The Turbinado Sugar Scrub, scented with Vanille Mokha (a sultry, grown-up vanilla), scrubbed me down to remove all the yucky dirt, then foams up to wash me clean AND left my skin feeling moisturized, not stripped like some foaming scrubs. I can smell the scent on my skin faintly about two hours later. This is a scrubbier scrub than you might be used to - closer in texture to Origins Salt Rub perhaps.
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2 opinions for Scrubbing Up! (in a leaky shower) with Isle of Eden
Rebecca
Aug 1, 2007 at 11:49 am
Do you think the sugar scrub would also work after a swim? I love to go swimming but hate the chlorine smell and dry feel of my skin afterwards.
Amy
Aug 1, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I think it would be fine, but I’d prefer a non-foaming scrub, as you aren’t really dirty when you get out of the pool, just chlorinated!
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