Reviews by rosik

This review is for Beauty & The Bees, Hobart TAS

verified email - 30 Jun 2011

I am sooooooo impressed by both the products and the service. I ordered online tuesday night and it arrived thursday. I had randomly bought one of the soaps in perth recently and have loved using it, so wanted to try more, haven't seen B&B in shops locally (sydney nthn beaches) so decided to go online.

The products are amazing - really! I had sworn off soap years ago, but this soap is beautiful, it smells and feels healthy not nasty. I swam in a heated chlorine pool this morning and used the green clay soap and the beer shampoo bar, followed by Apple cider rinse and I do not smell at all of chlorine, and seriously - my skin feels just lovely!

THe shampoo bars are a revelation - I have long naturally blonde hair and surf once or twice a day so am always washing it - I can't tell you how happy I am to find a totally truly natural product that works!

And the apple cider vinegar rinse is the key to completing the experience!! Along with the huon pine soap dish - definitely get one of these!

The tasmanian tiger balm is great - not as strong 'burning' feeling as nastier more traditional products, but feels and smells so much better, that I will be much happier to use it more often.

I love that the packaging is almost all cardboard which i can just fold up and recycle, and I'm quite sure I can reuse the lovely jars and tins. Compared to all the plastic that would normally encase that quantity of product - it is so refreshing.

I have been concerned for a long time about the welfare of our waterways and oceans and the wildlife in them due to the chemicals we all wash down the drain in the name of cleanliness and swapped to cleaning the house (including oven, bathroom and toilet) with only bicarb soda, vinegar, borax, tea tree, eucalyptus and lavender oils years ago and my place is immaculate and smells great! But my search for minimalist body care stuff has so far not been as successful - I have tried so many different natural products (with varying levels of naturalness when ingredients are scrutinized) from health/eco stores and some are OK, some are useless, and some leave my skin as dry as the supermarket chemical concoctions

I am also super excited about the prospect of being able to travel with a a piece of the soap and shampoo bar packed into one of the lightweight tins! No 100ml limit worries for me any more!

THe botty butter stuff smells great - will make a lovely little pressie for my friends bub!

I'm will be ordering more - can't wait to try the moisturisers and balms now, and will definitely be blabbing to all my friends - and any health/eco shops who will listen so I can walk in and buy off the shelf too!

By the way - I just had to add - this is the first time ever I have bothered to POST a review on any product anywhere on the web, that is how impressed I am!!

Approximate cost: $80 for 6 or 7 things