Saturday Question: What Are Your Favourite Bath/Shower Products?

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Portia

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Hello Fellow Fumies,

At APJ we have a Saturday Question. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it’s a fun event each week. Taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.

The idea is you’ll see it on the weekend or chime in through the week. Hopefully you will come back regularly and see if anyone has responded to your comment and you can reply to them. The aim is to generate real conversation and connection even though we are scattered around the globe.

Over 100 responses I will draw a Secret Scent Sample Pack (from my collection)

Last Weeks Winner: Brigitte

eMail me at (portia underscore turbo at yahoo dot com dot au) with your address please

Saturday Question: What Are Your Favourite Bath/Shower Products?

As you all know I am a 100% bath lover when convenient. Which is almost always while around the apartment. When I go on holidays though it’s usually showers. Either way I love to use my shower gels for bubble baths and for soaping up in the shower. I use a range of them, from expensive luxury through to super cheap. As long as they bubble up, smell good and clean me I’m no snob.

My Answer:

Blenheim Bouquet Bath Oil by Penhaligon’s

This has been one of my long time best buys ever. Blenheim Bouquet is a lovely masculine leaning floral that smells wonderful and leaves my skin feeling soft and supple. It’s also a really good way to keep my skin moist for extra fragrant longevity.

Fate Woman by Amouage

Imagine a slim line version of Fate Woman. Take out all the challenging bits and leave a spicy citrus, narcissus and resinous scent and you have the shower gel. The scent isn’t nearly as tenacious in the shower gel form either, adding a just refreshed in spring feel to your skin. It doesn’t bubble as well in the bath as it does on your loofa, but still makes a very nice showing.

Olympic Orchids Amber Labdanum Bath Oil

Another bath oil, this one is a massive beast and smells amazing. All the crunchy goodness of top notch amber with extra labdanum to give that animalic goatish added extra. Just a few drops in my bath before I plunge and the world smells better than you could imagine, while relaxing in the bath my mind is them free to wander and is often transported on the most amazing journeys.

Rose Jam by LUSH

Especially exciting because Rose Jam is now a regular feature ofd the LUSH stores. My photo is of one of my old bottles while it was still an LE. ALL The roses, great bubbling, makes the house smell unbelievable and only leaves the merest trace on skin to lift your rose centric fragrances.

Tabu by Dana

There was a time when this was going for peanuts at the discounters. I might have bought a dozen, SHHH! A simplified, cozy, purring version of Tabu with loads of soft, furry animalics. Smells well over its budget price range. I always feel like a movie star from the golden years of Hollywood when I have a Tabu bubble bath.

My Saturday Question to you is:

What Are Your Favourite Bath/Shower Products?

66 thoughts on “Saturday Question: What Are Your Favourite Bath/Shower Products?”

  1. Don‘t have a favourite and rarely use them. If, then in the bath. Never the shower. Might use Rose Jam if I have some, or a squirt of Palmolive f*** knows what. Usually milk and olive oil though. 💋

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  2. I lerve bath products. Bought Amouage Epic on my last holiday, it lasts on the skin when used as a shower gel.
    Have also liked Laura Mercier Ambre something bath honey.
    Sometimes I dump perfume samples in the bath too…well, you have to use them!

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  3. I use Lush and Bath & Body Works stuff, whatever they’re offering at the time. I normally go for rose, violet or tropical scents.

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    • Hey TaraC,
      Bath & Body Works used to post to Australia for really good prices but now that they’ve opened stores here they don’t. Adding insult to injury, the prices here are a good deal higher than over in the USA. It’s a bummer.
      Portia x

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  4. I pick up Kneipp bathoils when working in Germany. Cannot beat those prices at the discount store. My favourites are Sandalwood/Patchouli and Olibanum/Malve.

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      • They are mostly known fot their bath salts. A classic German brand originating somewhere in the 1800’s. You can google Kneipp Australia and you will get a couple of hits. They are pretty big in Europe as far as I know. I even have a rose in my garden named after Kneipp 🙂

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      • There are brick and mortar stores in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Not too many shoppers though. (I do, but then again, I am a bath/shower products junkie).

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      • Sebastian Kneipp was a German priest and one of the forefathers of homeopathic remedies. Amazon has a whole slew of Kneipp products. I need to stop looking-LOL!

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  5. For the bath I am with you Portia with Lush Rose Jam, love! Also the OO Amber Labdanum oil. I use both. My other favorite is Florence Gunnarson bath oils.
    In the shower I use Lush shower shower gels, mostly Rose Jam but I venture out, as well as Fengal and Piguet Baghari.

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    • There was a former coworker who used to wear some sort of cologne from Fengal. She had to have a relative bring it to her from Europe every year. She said she loved splashing it on in the summer. She gave me one of her bottles that was about 1/4 full and I did enjoy it too…it was an herbal, chypre-ish splash …I want to say it was called Miss Fengal? But I am not sure…couldn’t find much information on it.

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      • Fengal is made in Germany. I order the Fengal body wash from Amazon and my last tube came from a supplier in the UK. I would agree it’s an herbal chypre-ish scent. It smells very clean to me, and brings me back to my childhood. My Mom and Grandmother had it, and I’m guessing they would purchase and bring back from the Netherlands when visiting family there. Someone from this blog reminded me of it last time we discussed shower/bath products.

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        • Guess what I found on eBay? Vintage Miss Fengal Creme de Parfum ( really it’s a cologne splash). 100 ml. I remember she loved it because she told me it smelled clean and fresh.

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          • Wow, I also found Miss Fenjal on Amazon! I’ve only purchased the shower creme which I adore.
            Now I’m finding myself researching everyone’s bath/shower favorites!

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              • You do realize that we are all just the worst of the worst enablers…everything I am reading about I look into and want!!!! Even things i had forgotten about (like that Fengal cologne-LOL!)

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  6. Not a bath person, so shower gels and shower oils only. I swear by L’ Occitan Almond Shower Oil and am happy they do refill bags for that product. Of cheaper stuff I like Y.Rocher’s shower gel with grapefruit and thyme.

    Sooner or later I’ll buy one of the F. Malle shower gels, they sound good (like the perfumes).

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  7. I love something I bought in Rome around the corner from my hotel – a little local parfumeria, Essenzialmente Laura – I bought a salt scrub with bergamot essential oil. An ideal exfoliator and the oil smells so good and leaves my skin very soft. I can’t do it every day but it makes for a fabulous bath!

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    • That scrub sounds amazing! I find salt scrubs or sugar scrubs with oil can be used once or twice weekly even on sensitive skin.

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  8. I’m a fan of the Jack Black range, largely because it’s all paraben-free and nice to my sensitive skin. The All Over Wash is brilliant for gym, pool and so on, because it covers hair, face and skin with the one product. At home, I use the Deep Dive Facial Cleanser and the Turbo Wash in the shower. I can’t go past Urth’s Green Tea and Rice facial scrub, however.

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  9. My most luxurious is OJ Frangipani bath oil. Smells amazing and wafts around upstairs for ages afterwards. I also love Elemis Monoi oil and like to have a good exfoliation with the matching salt scrub. Fenjal is one that I remember from my early childhood as it was always in our house and I still use it today. I always have a tub of Moroccan black soap and a kessa mitt in the bathroom. It’s no fun having crocodile skin😉 In the shower is Nuxe Prodigieuse shower oil which is really rich and leaves a lasting aroma trail. R&G Fleur D’Osmanthus gelee, Elemis Monoi shower cream and my very last bottle of Eternity Moment shower gel, I bought a few of those on clearance but can’t find any more. I’ve taken to using handmade soaps in the past couple of years, I find them to be kind to this old pelt. I have matching lotions or body oils for all these as well. And then some.

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  11. Rose Jam is the bomb!!!

    Also love Jo Malone soaps which I gift the youngest for his bday and holidays (and then i get to use it..hee hee).

    Nubian Heritage Raw Shea butter soap…I need an EDT that smells like this!

    South of France also makes marvelous smelling soaps…Apricot Glacee and Cote D’Azure are my favorite.

    and I adore Bath and Body Works Fig and Brown Sugar Body Wash but I think it’s LE now and only comes out certain times of the year. That too I would love as an EDT. Fig is my jam

    Oils I use after the shower…slather all over my body. Usually it’s whatever concoction I have made with my essential oils and a carrier oil.

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  12. Agreed on Rose Jam and now I want to find Tabu! I like the Frederic Malle En Passant shower gel and also the Molton Brown Russian Leather shower gel, depending on whether I want a strident or demure shower experience.

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  13. I always go for Roger & Gallet products, almost everything from them is great quality at insane prices. I’m also using a lot of eau parfumeé from their line, especially Gingembre 😍😍(a must try!). Bath products from them are awesome, imho a really underrated house.

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  14. Any of the Ritual shower foams are great (especially when you can get them for $5). I like Happy Buddha and the Rose one. I use a lot
    of Bath and Body Works stuff for regular day (usually the winter season stuff) and I adore any of the Amouage products but I tend to hoard them instead of use them.

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    • Rituals Happy Buddha is amazing. The stores don’t carry it though (or at least the ones I had been to). The hotel I stayed at in Barcelona used Rituals toiletries and that was how I found out about this particular scent. You betcha I have a stash of travel sizes at home.

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      • The flagship stores for Rituals here in Norway sure carry the Happy Buddha products. Many women do seem to favour the much sweeter Ritual of Sakura, so that’s way easier to find in other stores.

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  15. Will be on an international flight soon and might pick up some Jo Malone bath stuff at the duty free. Either the rose bath stud or the rose n oud dry oil…

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  16. I love Molton Brown Black Pepper Corn, also L’Occitane Jasmin & Bergamote Shower Gel and Soap. Another nice one is Roger & Gallet Bois d’Orange. On the cheaper side I like Dove Shower Cream and Soap. Aldi just had a special of Dove soap and I’m all set until 2050.

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  17. I’m really boring and old school with this kind of thing. For showers I’ll take a nice bar of soap (Lush are great) over any fancy shower gels!

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  18. I only take showers and have shelves overloaded with odds and ends shower gels pick up at TJ Maxx. The only consistent regulars, though, are L’Occitane products and I am never without their citrus verbena products.

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  19. I have a veritable rainbow of Shower gels and jellies from Lush and The Body Shop. I like to have choice……

    I also have some soap fluff from an indie Sucreabeille, which are deliciously scented with her House blends.

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  20. Only showers for me — the hotter the better. On rotation currently: Harry’s Body Wash – Fig (almost at thunk levels…one or two more showers tops), Kneipp Passionfruit & Grapefruit, Chanel No. 5 L’eau In-Shower Gel (this is a to die for luxury) and Chanel Paris-Deauville Shower Gel. Sadly, I had to throw out the remnants of Rose Jam shower gel as it no longer excited me.

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  21. I prefer a shower. I’ve got a plethora of Lush bath and shower stuff, mainly pressies from my Grandaughters. I like M&S Magnolia.
    Congrats to Brigitte on PPP win. Enjoy your goodies X

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  22. Im really boring I keep on coming back to regular old Nivea gels and an organic supermarket brand line. Occasionally I’ll try something new. Bought Korres Neroli and Iris gel in Athens and it smells heavenly!

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  23. Congrats on your win, Brigitte!

    I rarely buy luxurious bath lines since they’re quite costly. My current faves are a few Russian semi-organic products and Yves Rocher shower gels. Le Petit Marseillais has a refreshing minty showel gel La Fraicheur de menthe, it’s perfect for the summer even though it may dry out my skin sometimes because of SLS.

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      • Sorry for a late reply, Brigitte! Yeah, we’ve got at least a couple dozen eco-friendly cosmetic lines, – safe ingredients, plus they smell nice and aren’t expensive (well, some of them). I wish they were easier to find in my town, there are too many L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble products 😦

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  25. I’m cheap. I have a selection of Yves Rocher shower gels, and then some Dove products for my driest months. I don’t take baths – our hot water heater isn’t big enough to fill our ridiculous jetted tub- but if I did, I’d be using Olympic Orchids oil.

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