little white truths

Coffee Bar claims/product details:

Verdict

I so wanted to love this product but unfortunately it's not for me.

It's a small, hard 'soap' bar that basically comprises coffee grounds fashioned into a little rock. I have the scent 'Caramel Espresso', and I do smell some caramel in among the coffee. I enjoy the scent, so no complaints there.

The first time I used this, the top 'panel' of the bar (that is, the section along the top that's not as wide as the rest of the bar) fell clean off and smashed on the bottom of the shower. I tried to retrieve it, but it was so soft that it disintegrated between my fingers. Perhaps I got a bad one.

I then went to use it and found that it was very rough against my wet skin so I learned to remove little bits of product and work those into my skin, rather than running the bar across it - otherwise I feel I'm scratching my skin.

The product does 'work' in the sense that you can get a reasonable exfoliation from the grains, but I've found that the bar is incredibly waxy - so I'll massage my skin to get the exfoliation happening but then find I'm covered in this waxy substance that's a bugger to remove.

I therefore have to scrub with this before I cleanse because I can't remove the waxy film from my skin without giving it a good wash after use, and even then the wax doesn't completely come off so I'm aware of it on my skin after my shower. It's not a feeling I like.

The other thing to note is that my bar has dried out and become harder over time (and it started out hard enough). What this means is that it's very difficult to use now because I can't rub it across wet skin without scratching myself, and I'm having trouble removing bits from the bar and disintegrating those before I use it. Essentially the product has crumbled into little chunks and I can't use those for exfoliation unless I find some way to smash them up first.

Overall I don't like this product and I can't recommend it. I think the idea is definitely there and I would love to see more coffee scrubs done in this way, but they haven't nailed the formula of this one so I wouldn't buy it again.

Not for me.