Pink and Undecided: house brand

Body-Tale 07 : Be Gorgeous Body Lotion

Hellowwww!!!

Have you guys missed me??? I am currently on a family vacation, we went to Bandung for four days and now we're in Jakarta for about two weeks (i post random pictures almost everyday in my Instagram now that i have one *LOL*, follow our vacay in real time by following my IG, my id's MGirl83 :D). I got sick (pretty horribly) about 2 days before our flight to Bandung (bad enough that i actually relented and got an injection willingly for the very first time in my entire 30 years WTF) and i was still recovering+felt so tired every night when we get back to the hotel that i couldn't update my blog at all!

Not only that, i know myself really well so i know i'd at least leave one items at home and only realized it at my destinations-this time's no exception, in fact it's probably the worst because i left a severely crucial item behind-my glasses!!! My myopia's super bad so i am practically blind once i showered and take off my contacts T.T... So stupid, leaving my glasses is like leaving half of my vision home zzzzz....

We recently got a new Ipad mini (didn't buy it coz i'm not into gadgets, instead we joined a UOB Bank's saving program with a bonus, and we chose this Ipad mini!) and hunny bought me a keyboard for it so i can blog in easily when we travel so whenever i have free time (like right now!) and my eyes are not too dry from wearing too much contacts, i will blog! This blog post however, i've written a few weeks ago (as usual haha, hoarder forever!), let's start!
Like i said, while the mood is here (to write a review) i must grab it by the ball and milk it dry!!! LOL.

Another body lotion today!

Be Gorgeous Body Lotion

No professional picture ~~stolen~~ grabbed from Mr. Google's finds coz... I can't find any! I can't even find any mention of this body lotion at all! So so weird *___*. Again, it's probably no longer available? (LOL, trust me to keep on reviewing discontinued products) But i think i saw this body lotion not too long ago in Watson's Singapore or Malaysia. Hmph. I dunno.

Anyway, at the back there's a writing stating that this lotion is made in Thailand and exclusively for Watsons. So i'm guessing this is Watsons' house brand!

Made with Bee's milk? I don't think bees secrete milk though??? LOL, my science grade's obviously gotten from plenty of acting like i know what i was talking about instead of actually knowing it. Nevertheless, i find it to be oh so cute hehehe (Oh, i just googled, apparently the royal jelly's also known as bee's milk! LOL, stupid stupid me :p)

To be completely honest the thing that attracted me to this body lotion was this cute little cardboard bee attached to the bottle's neck... It doesn't take a lot for me to buy something, eh?

I bought this body lotion in Singapore's Watsons a while back (can't expect me to remember the exact time, can you?), i am always randomly attracted to unknown brands/products whenever i enter any Watsons/Guardian/Sasa so it's not a surprise that i reached for this. Again, i cannot recall the exact price, but i don't think it was very cheap at all. Weird considering most house brands are very affordable (if you don't want to use the word "cheap" :p), i remember thinking that this was not cheap enough for an unknown brand, but in the end i still got it because : a) The cute little bee and b) the word bee's milk. LOLOLOL, i have the weirdest logic ever! But i am definitely glad i bought it anyway, coz i ended up LOVING it!!!

Be Gorgeous body lotion comes in a nice quality plastic bottle (not the super flimsy, cheap looking ones), it is light weighed but feels solid and sturdy-creamy yellow in color and opaque (so you can't really gauge how much product you still have). The bottle has a nice and simple pump dispenser, very convenient (no need to pour or stuck your fingers into a tub), mess-free and germ-free as well :D.

I can vouch that their claim of a soft, smooth and younger looking skin has a base! It worked on mine!

Hmm yeah, reading the lines now i remember they also have (or had, i dunno) shower gel, etc but i decided to just try the body lotion out first since i didn't know whether or not i was going to like it.

The ingredients, for those of you who actually cares *i'm horrible, i don't...*

One pump

The consistency of this lotion was fla-like (even the color reminds me of fla sauce...), or very watery and soft pudding (OMG, i'm making myself hungry describing it WTH), very pale yellow in color with very soft and subtle powdery honey smell (probably royal jelly scent, also reminds me of a bee pollen's scent). I find the scent to be quite pleasant (even though i prefer fruity/very honey scent), organic and natural-it did take awhile for me to get used to the scent, but it definitely grew on me so towards the end of the bottle, i actually liked the scent.

The lotion's super light (and fluffyyy), it got absorbed immediately on my skin but managed to keep it super smooth and moisturized the whole day without any icky, greasy or oily feeling at all! It works like a dream on my normal skin, but sadly it works just so so on my hunny's super dry and sensitive skin. I used this lotion on him for a period of time but when i saw it not really working wonderfully for him, i stopped. Better let him stick to boring Vaseline lotions and save the varieties of lotions for my own skin, right?

It's super light but also very dense-as in it's not watery. I put my hand on its side like this for a few seconds and they lotion stayed put

This lotion in the long run, it makes my skin super smooth, softer than ever! And that's really something because my skin's normally *ahem* pretty soft already :D. I love love love this lotion and can safely say that this is one of my most favorite body lotion that i've tried. I tend to like most body lotions and trust me when i said i've tried a TON of them, so... Yeah, i think Be Gorgeous body lotion is really awesome!

Not only it keeps my skin super soft and hydrated, but it actually helped calm my eczema down! I have problems with most shower gel/cream (like, 8 out of 10 products. ZZZ), most of them would aggravate eczema on my fingers (it'll be very itchy and rough, with water bubbles forming in my fingers and palms! Disgusting WTF. A more stripping shower products would even leave my elbow feeling dry) and i just had a particularly bad episode with an Etude House shower cream, after using this body lotion regularly my eczema actually soothed and subsided without any added topical ointments! I have not found any other body lotion that works like this! I believe the royal jelly (which i heard good for easing allergies) in the ingredients must be the main reason for this to happen!

I would definitely recommend this for people with normal skin who wants a soft, hydrated skin that is fast absorbing, doesn't leave a greasy trail and smells soft and organic.

Not recommending it for people with very dry skin (not that it'd do anything bad, it's just not working as wonderfully on a dry skin) who needs more concentrated body cares (go for body butters instead!) or those who cannot stand organic, royal jelly scent.

I would 100% repurchase this if it's still avaible! Will be keeping an eye for this product the next time i stumble into Watsons (which might never make it to Surabaya, no thanks to Guardian *sulk*)!

Have you ever heard of this product before? If not, did i manage to tempt to to try it out?

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Review : Collagen By Watsons Moisturising Body Lotion

bath and body cares

Hi everybody!

How's your holiday (for those of you who lives in countries that celebrates Eid/Idul Fitri like ours) or weekend (for those who lives in countries that doesn't) so far? Hope you've been having lots of fun! And before it's way too late, i wanna wish all of the Moslem readers a very Happy Eid Mubarak! Hope you had a wonderful one full of happiness, joys, and blessings this year!

As for myself, i don't really feel the weekend atmosphere at all because mainly i've been passing out ever since we arrived back from Taiwan yesterday. Been sleeping non stop, and hunny kept on feeding me medication for my horrible cold (so far my cold's getting better, but i developed a chesty cough again WTF, a real never ending cycle, i hope i don't sound like a friggin hypochondriac WTF) that i've not been able to function properly just yet. We had a very belated birthday dinner for Baby Boy (with family and closest friends, i like it private that way...), will be blogging about it but please be patient *LOL*. I can hardly keep my eyes open as i am typing this as it is. I'm gonna need a few more chilling days to be able to feel normal again i believe.

Thank God for my hoarding habit, because as usual, i feel uneasy if i don't blog regularly and i found this draft that had been sitting for way too long in my folder, so before it developed some moss or spider webs, i'm gonna post it! (and now i'd need to start hoarding more entries because i'm running out of drafted entries!).

It's another review for... can you guess it? Yeah, another body lotion heehee. I know I know, my most reviewed products’ are body lotions (or body creams, etc), what can I dooo? That’s the one product that I use daily and keep on running out on so I ended up trying a new one very frequently (same explanation whenever i review another body lotion *LOL*, i will stop saying this i hope). Oh, the second on the list is probably hair conditioners but I’m very boring when it comes to my hair care, I tend to stick to one brand (currently Dove) so I won’t be reviewing hair cares much (but I will do it from time to time okay).

If you read my Guardian HouseBrand Lip Moisturizing Balm review then you’d already know I love house brands, and this time I am also going to review another house brand’s product. No no, not from Guardian, but from my #1 favorite drugstore of all time (so far), Watson’s!

This is Collagen By Watsons Moisturising Body Lotion (100g) :

Now, I bought this quite a while back, and for the love of God I cannot remember where exactly I bought this. I mean, of course I bought this in Watson’s, dummy, I mean I don’t remember in which country.. I am pretty sure it was bought in Macau though (KL being the close second candidate, but I am pretty sure it was Macau, sorry I know I tend to say this a lot in my reviews, LOL, I hoard so much I can’t remember the exact place I bought them from if it’s been a while).

I originally bought this for my mummy because I see Collagen, I immediately think of her lah, elderly needs collagens right? (if she read this she’s gonna smack me hahaha) But then I remember buying her lots of cosmetics and body cares from non high end brands (whenever I went overseas/when I was a poor teenager, for her birthday) and she never used any of them FML and after a while she’d pass them to me, not even remembering I was the one who gave it to her in the first place (like this Red Earth eyeshadow) zzzzz.

That is so why I’ve been a bit reluctant to buy her stuffs ever since, but then she scolded me zzzz so I usually buy her clothes from a more expensive high street brands (for the designer branded stuffs’, that’s my 11 years older sister’s job to buy for her LOLOL, she’s the one who’s married to a billionaire! As for me, my hunny’s still a millionaire not a billionaire yet LOLOL, maybe in 11 years? Hahaha) and I’m pleased to say that she wears them *nods apporivingly*.

Anyway, remembering her million rupiahs a bottle skin cares, I decided to buy her other stuffs and use this body lotion myself. I actually loved it!

A simple plastic bottle with cheery yellow color

Hoh, I actually finished this body lotion for quite a while now I just keep the bottle to write this review before throwing it out, and only now I read the description on the bottle “ formulated with natural collagen from Germany and extracted from non-polluted deep sea fish”, wow! Thank God it didn’t smell fishy! Hehe, I like the smell actually.

Let’s see the texture of this lotion :

It is light (but not watery), soft and buttery, it applied very smoothly and absorbed quite easily (but not super fast and then gone with no trace haha) and keeps my skin (and hunny’s) supple and soft for hours. If you read my previous body lotions/cream reviews you’d know that I always test them with my palms. This lotion left my super sensitive palm soft and moisturized, so it’s a very good sign! You’d also know I hate greasiness and slippery feeling on my skin, and this body lotion didn’t cause anything like that! It keeps your skin soft and moisturized definitely but without the extra greasiness. Two thumbs up!

You should also know I have a very sensitive nose as well, I didn’t like Dove Body Silk and The Skin Food’s Body Cream but I actually like this one’s a lot! It smells really soft, reminds me a little bit of baby powders, with a hint of floral. Actually it smells very vintage-y haha, brings me back to olden days you know? When I was a little kid, somehow. Haiyah I dunno how to describe lah, you know I’m horrible at explaining fragrances and smells :p. But it’s not overpowering and generally pleasant, in my opinion.

Oh, I know the packaging’s not very cute or whatever, in fact it’s super boring haha, but that’s expected from House Brands, I guess it keeps the costs low? I dunno… I don’t mind lah, I cannot be bothered to buy super cute packaged body lotions all the time, they’d cost me three or more times more than the humble drugstores/house brands :p (yes, I buy them sometimes, but not always, balance is important, my friend). I cannot remember the price of this lotion obviously, but I think it’s pretty cheap (should be lah, I don’t think I’d buy it if it’s not very cheap).

I don’t know if this is available in Indonesia, but its Watsons house brand so it would only be available in Watsons (Captain Obvious) and since I think Watsons only available in Jakarta (damn you, Watsons!!!) then it might be available there? I wasn’t paying any attention the last time I was in Jakarta, I was distracted to the sale section HAHA.

It’s very value for money as well because you don’t need a whole lot of it to spread all over your hand and legs (or any other areas you please *smirk*), a little goes a long way with this baby (unlike most drug store body lotions that you'd need a LOT usually) so this tiny bottle actually lasted me longer than I expected it would.

I guess it’s clear that I love it? And yes, I’d be repurchasing it next time I go to any city/country that has Watsons *pathetic* (UPDATE : Okay, i've been to various Watsons, more than 7 so far but as usual, got distracted by a LOT of other things that i didn't even remember about this product until i dust off the entry from my draft), I’m gonna buy the biggest bottle! And yes, I’m highly recommending it for everybody who loves a good moisturizing body lotions and doesn’t mind the plain packaging or the low price (some people do mind cheap stuffs!!! Like my mum! She doesn’t believe cheap products could be any good zzz).

Hope y’all find this review helpful!!