Buddy Scrub Raw Cacao Review

I scored this scrub from the Beauty Vault, which I was very excited as I LOVE cacao.

I have been trying to make a move to natural products, in particular fragrance-free products, so this one was a great score. The ingredients include yummy things like brown sugar, sea salt, sweet almond oil and orange peel oil. Nothing that I need a degree to understand! As a bonus, the packaging clearly shows that the product is cruelty free and vegan friendly.

Sadly I'm not enamoured with the packaging - a ziplock foil bag. I find ziplock IMPOSSIBLE with scrubs, as after the first use they won't close again, plus as far as I'm aware foil bags can't be recycled.

The scrub itself was a good texture - not too coarse - but the scent wasn't as strong as I had hoped. However I shouldn't judge too harshly as I think that is one downside of natural products - you forfeit the strong, lasting scent of parfum!

On the whole this scrub is a good option if you're looking for an ethical, fragrance-free body scrub, but not the right thing if you're looking for a strong chocolatey hit!

I've used a lotttttt of scrub options, and this is....fine. It's nothing exciting, it does the job, but I'm in no hurry to re-buy.

The packaging amuses me. It's crammed with innuendo, and lines like 'your friend with benefits' and 'carefully rip off my top' and ' it's time to get down and dirty. These appeal to me, and make me laugh in the shower in the morning, which is always nice.

The product looks like you could make cookies from it... it smells like that too! A caramelly brown shade, with sugar-type granules and a sweet vaguely chocolate scent make this quite aesthetically pleasing.

it's not super scrubby, super hydrating or super nourishing. Post use my skin feels clean, but not pampered. I don't like that it washes away brown, it kinda looks a bit gross.

It's fine, there's nothing wrong with it, but there are better options, especially for that price! It's all natural, cruelty free, and vegan friendly, so if you look for those options, that might appeal to you, but for me, it's one of those 'use it up and don't go looking for it' products...

You get a decent amount of product in this packaging, and it comes in a foil wrapped bag with ziplock so that water doesn't get inside.

The product itself is brown and quite dry, smelling more like cacao than chocolate. When wet, it dissolves a little and becomes more paste-like, allowing you to take a clump to rub on the skin. It is so exfoliating and really gives me a good scrub! My skin feels so clean and refreshed afterwards, but not tight due to the oils. The oils leave my skin moisturised and smooth, and my skin is left glowing!

I love this and am using the green tea one now. I would repurchase, but would love to try out some other brands first.

I got this scrub from the last vault.

This scrub is a bit dryer than i’d expected, it kind of looks like cake mix before the wet ingredients are added. Therefore it seems that there’s not a great amount of oils in it. It’s generally the oiliest of body scrubs that win me over, however i’m still pretty pleased with this one.

This scrub has a strong and yummy scent, it smells like jaffa, which I think is likely to be a winner for most. It’s moderately coarse in graininess, and moderately (sufficiently) exfoliating. It’s not quite as moisturizing as I would like, but it does leave a light oily layer behind on your skin.

I find that this product should be used generously, it’s a 200gram bag, which I feel is a decent amount of product for the price. The bag is a hardy foil material with a zip-lock seal, so totally waterproof. (You wouldn’t want to get any water in the bag, otherwise the product would dissolve.)

It does make a bit of a mess in the shower, make sure that you rinse it off the shower walls before getting out, otherwise it could possibly stain.

I’m liking this product, i’m not exactly loving it, just because I personally prefer very oily scrubs. I would recommend however, and it would make a great gift to include in a pamper pack.

I got the Raw Cacao Buddy Scrub in the last Beauty Vault.

What excited me about this product was that it was made with natural ingredients.

The buddy scrub comes in a white plastic ziplock bag. The description and the instructions are quite amusing to read, with their tantalizing description of the product with words like "so let’s start by getting you undressed and slowly exfoliating your dry skin with my sea salt and brown sugar". I thought it was quite a fun way to market their product.

The product inside dark and quite sandy looking, imagine what it would look like if you mixed brown sugar, cocoa powder and and flour. It's similar looking to that. When dry the buddy scrub smells like brown sugar and raw cacao.

When the product is wet however it smells like chocolate. The wet product does dissolve quite quickly into brown liquid, so you do need to scrub away quite quickly.

I used a little plastic container I had to transfer some product into before my shower so the bag went nowhere near the water.

After using the buddy scrub my skin did feel more moisturised and nice and soft.

It is a lovely product to use but a bit more fussy than the more gel like exfoliators and body scrubs. I would use it again, but I'd also buy other brands I've used before.

Along with hair care and hand and nail care, body scrubs are another of my favourite items. When I saw this in the May beauty vault I couldn’t resist. It looked cute and it sounded great.

The packaging is cute but the white resealable bag looks like something that would belong in the pantry. I love the way they have written up the directions and ingredients, its funky and fun and makes me want to use it. I also love companies that step outside the norm and are different.

So I take my ‘buddy’ to the shower and I take a spoon too, so I can scoop the scrub out. It says on the back to not get water in the bag so I thought using a spoon to dig it out would prevent wet hands and water getting inside the bag I also thought it would make less mess around the ziplock piece making it easier to close.

This brown sugar and sea salt scrub smells slightly chocolate minty. It is a reddy brown colour and just looks like brown sugar that has gone wrong. I start scrubbing it round my body in circular motions I love these types of body scrubs as having dry skin I rely on them to buff away all the dry patches and they just feel so good it’s like a wee wake up call to your skin. A couple of tablespoons is enough for my whole body and massage it around for a few minutes.. yes probably an overkill but it just feels so good.

I find the scrub really easy to wash away and doesn’t stick to the skin with it being brown I thought it may have stained my skin but lucky for me it doesn’t. it leaves a slight residue from the oils which my skin usually absorbs after a few hours. But it doesn’t feel gross and it is only a very slight layer of oil.

Overall this buddy is a damn good buddy and I will want to repurchase it once it runs out and maybe even try another scent.