My readers ask me about (cheaper) Indian skincare brands and why I don’t recommend them. There are so many, and not everyone wants to buy Forest Essentials’ or Kama Ayurveda.
I hesitate to use other products because it’s my skin, and I only get one skin per life. Second, I don’t believe you can make a Vitamin C serum that is safe, effective and not full of nasty chemicals for less than INR 500. There are so many cheap products on the market, and if I don’t use it, then I certainly will never suggest anyone else does.
Why is Juicy Chemistry different?
Juicy Chemistry is an ECOCERT brand that uses certified organic ingredients and therefore, uses the highest quality ingredients. Also, the products appear to be cheap as chips (presumably because of the smaller sizes and that’s ok).
As a bonus, the quality of their packaging is second to none. I love their non-plastic laminated paper packaging, and their containers are excellent. (Kama Ayurveda and Forest Essential’s could take a leaf out of their book). The husband-wife founder story is quite famous, and this is a link to their website.
The body butter
After that fabulous introduction to this brand, it does pain me to tell you how awful this body butter is.
The texture is all wrong
The first point I want to make is that there has been no attempt to mix the product properly – the grainy texture comes from the shea butter in the formulation and indicates carelessness in cooling the product. Secondly, that is not a body butter – this is.
Both products are the same: all I have done is taken Juicy Chemistry’s product and whipped it as it should be done. This is formulation 101.
The product cools down to this:
The same product has a superior texture, just by how you choose to mix the ingredients.
Smell
All of this would not matter if the product did not stink.
I don’t know how to describe how bad the smell is because I am shocked that any seller would think this product is okay to sell to the public because it may/may not deal with “stretch marks and pigmented skin.”
Think of keo karpin oil and then raise it exponentially to the biggest number you can think of, and that’s what you have. I understand that sellers may believe that Indians are fine drinking cow’s urine (some do) and that by extension, they’d be okay with smelling like cow’s urine. I am afraid that is an assumption one step too far.
There are no condition’s under which I want to stink like cow’s urine. Sorry. And what is worse is that the smell is so invasive that it lingers on your skin and becomes some other matured faint cow urine smell after a few hours.
Thankfully, I applied a small amount on my forearm. I cannot imagine using this on a larger portion of my body where there are stretch marks.
I bought this is in the sale at a 40% discount for Rs 510. The MRP is Rs 850, and that is Rs 850 too much for this product
To sum up: I would instead shoot myself rather than using this unspeakably awful product again.