little white truths

Let me start off by saying that I'm pretty sure my tub of Villainess Smooch was dried out when I received it. I bought it from the Violet Box shop and when I opened it, I found that it was so hard that I couldn't get any product out with my fingers and I actually have to use the metal lid to scrape out the product.

I've had a look at the reviews online (of which there aren't many) and people talk about this scrub being creamy (mine isn't) and mention that it can dry out if open too long. Mine has only been open two weeks but it was hard and crystallised from the beginning. So this review will of course be based on the product I received, which may not reflect what the product is actually like, if it's not meant to be as hard as mine is.

Having said this, I still really like this scrub and would buy it again despite the hard texture.


Just briefly, Villainess is a brand I discovered through Violet Box and I've really liked the three Villainess products I've received from VB thus far: a soap, this scrub and a sample body cream.

Plus I particularly like the funky packaging, the fact that the products aren't expensive and - most of all - the scents of the products. They're to die for: I almost want to eat them!


The Dulces En Fuego scent is described as 'musky bitter chocolate sweetened with vanilla and touches of citrus then positively inflamed with black pepper and nutmeg'. It's AMAZING.

I've copied the ingredients list from the Villainess website:

'Crystalline Aluminosilicate (Zeolite), Sucrose (Sugar), Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Butter, Cetearyl Alcohol (and) Polysorbate 60, Prunus (Cherry) Kernel Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Fragrance, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Nibs, Cinnamomum Cassia (Cinnamon) Bark Powder, Piper Nigrum (Black Pepper) Powder'.
You can also see from the picture on the website that my Smooch doesn't look at all like it should, so I would say that mine was definitely dried out when I got it (see my photo further down).


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