This is how much I pay attention to the products I buy from Lush; it wasn't until I opened this in the shower to use as a body scrub, that I realised Lush had reformulated the recipe and turned it into a body butter. Inspired by the Brazilian sand sculptures on Copacabana beach, and with added coconut oil and butters, Sandy Santa Body Butter has been reinvented and hopefully, improved.
Back in 2012, when I tried the Sandy Santa Sugar Scrub for the first time, I wasn't overall impressed. I appreciated the scent - a combination of juicy Brazilian orange oil, sandalwood and rosewood,which gave it an overall smell of fresh mandarins with just a hint of what I can only describe as flat coca cola. However, I found it very difficult to use it effectively in the shower, and ended up wasting a large percentage of it down the drain - I just don't feel that sugar scrubs are particularly practical.
Despite this, when Lush bought the familiar Santa-shaped product back this year, I opted to give it a second chance and bought one to trial. Zoom forward a month, and I discover it's now become a body butter, which makes me rather intrigued to see how it compares with the old formula.
With murumuru butter and shea butter, Sandy Santa is both a body butter and a sugar scrub. Lush have crammed him full of butters to give a wonderful moisturising affect; including sugar and sand to smooth and polish your skin at the same time.
On the positive side, Sandy Santa is definitely more moisturising this time around. Rather than experiencing the harshness of the sugar on my skin, I enjoyed the fact that I had a mixture of soft butters and sugar, which exfoliate as well as scrub. Secondly, this product lasts much longer than the previous rendition - I used this across my whole body a good 8-10 times, which is more cost efficient than the two uses I was able to get out of the 2012 edition. Finally, despite it being the same size and shape, the product was somewhat easier to use in the shower.
However, Sandy Santa hasn't been completely changed for the better. Firstly, this product has lost a lot of its scent, no doubt due to the addition of lots of oils, which must somehow disperse the scent somewhat. I found that I couldn't smell it at all in the shower, and there was no noticeable scent left on my skin afterwards. Secondly, this body butter still has the annoying red hat, which leaks colour all over you and the bath during use. I found that this can sometimes stain the bath tub.
Overall, I'm just not overly enamoured by what Sandy Santa has to offer. It's not a bad product at all, but neither is it a particularly good product. I would much rather use something like Rub Rub Rub to get my scrub and exfoliation going at the same time. This is not a product I would reinvest in again.
Quantitative Ingredients: Sugar, Murumuru Butter, Sodium Bicarbonate, Organic Shea Butter, Illipe Butter, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cream of Tartar, Sand, Lauryl Betaine, Brazilian Orange Oil, Rosewood Oil, Sandalwood Oil, Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, *Limonene, *Linalool, Methyl Ionone, Perfume, Colour 14700.
Vegan?: Yes.
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