My criteria for bath and body products are as follows (in no particular order): soothing and moisturizing, nicely scented, economical, effective (when there’s a claim involved) and fun to use is a bonus. Borne from a personal experiment making Vitamin C serum, Candessence fits that bill. The young company has blossomed and now also offers an extensive range of handcrafted products in every fragrance combination imaginable, like Fizzy Bath Bombs scented with frankincense, myrrh, juniper berry and sandalwood. I usually like to save fragrant items like these for during my morning routine so I smell nice all day long. However, the other night after a long day I decided to bathe with the Oatmeal Honey Soap, also containing goat milk, frankincense, myrrh and vanilla. I’m so glad I did! The scent was so relaxing and smelled wonderful as I fell asleep. The Encore Lotion makes my hands feel like satin. For soft hands on the go, I also carry the body butter around with me in my purse, and use it almost every day. Find handmade lotions, soaps and more at candessence.com.
Store Review: Candessence
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I tried a few products by Candessence; body butter, Vitamin C serum and a scent stick (perfume). The body butter has the consistency of cold, whipped butter, i.e. not easy to get out of the container and apply. A little didn’t go a long way either. The C serum was very sticky….I didn’t have any noticable results after a month so will not be reordering. The scent stick is sold perfume in a travel deodorant containter. It smelled fine, but looks quite strange if applying in public.
Was the body butter moisturizing? I like L’occtaine shea butter because it’s incredibly rich, but it’s pricy.
-Kate- I tried these products last year, after reading about them here, but forgot to post back my results. I still have the body butter because I stopped using it, and used it today to give you a recent opinion. It’s moisturizing when you put it on, but it didn’t last all day, as I noticed my legs were a bit dry looking/feeling at the end of the day. This product is not anything like L’Occtane as far as richness. It’s very light/hollow. Not terrible, but not amazing.