Review : Bath Tea from The Bomb ID (SPONSORED)

Anyone here like to pamper themselves with long warm baths?

Actually, i'm not the biggest fan of baths (i have a weird fear of bathtubs! But it's not as bad as my fear of stairs. Oh God, why do i have so many fears), i prefer a quick shower and be done with it-but once in a while, particularly when i'm over-tired, warm baths' totally enticing even for me! So when The Bomb ID (which is a local *based in Surabaya!* hand made luxury bath essentials store) kindly sent me these Sweet Rose Tea Baths before my trip to Singapore/Malaysia, i got very excited! FYI, i can actually sniff some of the sweet rose scent even from the sealed container!

Yep, for IDR 68.000/container you'd get two bath teas, very affordable-i would say!

I honestly never heard of bath teas before-but then again as you just read, i don't do a lot of baths (except when i was little and went through a phase of pretending that my parents' huge bathtub was a pool-and i was obsessed with bubble baths as well) so i'm not exactly familiar with bath products anyway-so i was very silly and didn't expect that bath teas would work similarly like... well... Teas. LOL. As in turning your bath into a tea-looking bath water!

But i'm jumping too much forwards here so lemme rewind to the very beginning : let's talk packaging first!

The bath tea duo comes in a cylinder mica container that is sturdy enough to survive being tossed in my super packed luggage to and fro (because i just managed to use one during my trip due to lack of time and definitely too kiasu to leave the other one behind!) Singapore and it's actually pretty enough to reuse as a container later (go green and all)!

I love the way the owner decorate the container with a semi transparent paper and soft, earthy colored images and wording-it's very fitting to the vintage-y, romantic nature of the brand and product itself. Kudos for the very thorough brand imaging, The Bomb ID!

They printed the direction for this bath tea at the container but since the print's very soft, i'm going to write them here :

Place one bath tea bag into the bathtub, don't forget to cut the "Bath Tea" sign. Place in bath water and enjoy. The salts and powders will flow into the water but leave the botanicals inside so they won't clog the drain.

Easy as pea, right? Like usual, i don't really read instructions (silly me!) so i was a bit worried that the leaves would dirty the bathtub (i was borrowing my sis' bathtub in their lux condo in Singapore! She'd kill me if i clog the drain!) or worse (clog the drain is the worst case scenario lah!) so when i finally did read the instruction, i was totally relieved *LOL*.

Here are the ingredients (also printed on the container) :

Magnesium Sulfate, Himalayan Salt, Dries Roses, Buttermilk Powder, Oats, Organic Black Tea, Essential Oil, Tea Tree Oil and Fragrance Oil.

Yes, i just read the ingredients as i type this, and boy don't they contain some real awesome stuffs!!! I mean... Himalayan salt, buttermilk powder and organic black tea??? They sure don't skimp on the goodness!

Here's how the tea bath bag looks like upon closer inspection :

I love the bath tea tag, looks like a real tea bag string-it's in the details, peeps! The bag itself reminds me of a potpourri bag

I must apologize for the different lighting starting from the next picture. I took the earlier pictures during day time, with natural sunlight coming in from the window-but i only got the time to relax in a bath at a very late hour (in the last day in Singapore as well) so i had to rely on the not-so-bright artificial lighting!

Anyway, as the instruction stated, all you have to do is run you bath water and cut off the tea bath sign! The wonderful sweet rose scent is very strong on the bag, it emanates an intoxicating sweet aroma (just like a potpourri!) even being left as it is!

I did not take a picture of the stuffs inside the bag, but here's a pic taken from their Instagram :

Hmmm i have a thing for crystallized rocks. Even salts.

Then drop your tea bag into your bath :

To my (silly) amazement, the bag started to ooze brownish color into the water!

I even made a little video of it. I really don't know what i was expecting, maybe i thought the tea bath wouldn't change the bath's color and only makes it smells of roses???

Then gradually, the bath water turns light brown :

This is not the final color, just like a real tea (of course, it does contain organic black tea!), it'll deepen in color the longer you leave it. I ended up with brownish colored bath after a while

I had fun swirling the tea bag in the water, you don't actually need to do it but it was fun!

Excuse the pale face and oily, limp hair. I did not shower that morning *LOLOLOL* because we were going for a very smokey Korean BBQ, i expected to have my bath right after (because obviously i reeked of pork!!!)-but my mum forbade me to (coz she knows i'd be in the bath for a while, even when i do my "quick showers" it's not that super quick la especially when i wash my hair-which is everyday! Let alone having a warm bath hahaha) and forced me to go out straight after (yes, without showering first *LOLOLOL*, it was just a brief and casual trip to a neighborhood mall to get some last minute bakwa to bring back to Indonesia so i didn't mind)

Hunny came in to help me take those pictures, and then he started playing with the tea bag as well *LOL*. I don't even know if you're supposed to do this, but it looks even more mesmerizing when you squeeze the tea bags (people do this to their teas as well to squeeze out every aroma and taste left so i guess it should be okay to do this to the tea baths as well!) :

Even though the sweet rose scent's very strong in the pouch, once diluted in the water it becomes a lot subtler (so not assaulting to your nose at all, even if you're sensitive to strong scents-don't worry, your bath would smell light and sweet!) and i really felt super relaxed as soon as i took a dip! It's ah-may-zing!

Other than the relaxing part (i felt immediately energized and not so tired anymore right after!), the bath also left my skin subtly scented and silky smooth!

So.... their claim?

Herbal Bath Tea is a perfect way to relax, relieve tension, soothe aching muscles and joints, stimulate circulation, or help to chase away a cold. Each unique blend of organic botanicals enhances the natural healing and soothing effects of a warm bath.

My verdict? JUSTIFIED!

It really turns a normal hot bath into one luxurious bath experience and i totally love it! I would definitely make more time to do long hot baths from now own, it's so good for my always-wandering-and-obsessing brain (i drive myself crazy most of the time, and yes-i'm aware of that!) and my stiff muscles!

Did i manage tempt you to try tea baths for yourselves? Contact The Bomb ID now and get yours! Also available in Lavender!

The Bomb Indonesia
Luxury Bath Essentials
thebomb.id@gmail.com
Phone. +628175077553
LINE : kikicoroline
LINE : sakura_wind
Admin LINE : noviyanagst
PHONE. 081398285667

Thank you The Bomb ID for these bath teas, they really are da bomb!

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Review : My Beauty Diary Valentine Chocolate Set (Sheet Mask)

bulgarian white rose mask

Hi guys...

Hope y'all doing better than me, i'm currently feeling horrible (since yesterday afternoon actually), my bones ache, my throat hurts, i kept on coughing non stop and i'm having an on-and-off fever. I don't know what's happening to me but i hope it'll pass soon! I know it sounds crazy but #Undecided and i have this "cosmic" connection LOL, like when one of us is sick, the other will be sick soon. When one of us is pissed, soon the other will be too. And right now our connection is, both of us are late with our periods zzzzz. I do hope this is not a sign of pregnancy (the sudden illness) :p, please come next year, baby! Mummy's got a packed schedule this year LOLOL.

Actually i felt not so bad this morning/afternoon, i was even energized enough to do lots of work (with the help of lovely Rosemary, thank you so much babe! You really are my hero! I'm hopeless when it comes to editing and photo shopping, even arranging photos in one layout is way out of my abilty LOL, that's when Rosemary came and rescue me), but once the evening came i feel like dying already WTH -___-.

So i didn't feel like writing originally, but since #Undecided seems to going to be missing (i know she's been missing for a while already, i mean a while more lah haha) for awhile (she told me "I have so many things to write, i just don't have the WILL to" FOL) i feel obliged somehow to write more (over compesating-anyone?). Told ya i'm a creature of habit, once i made myself write regularly it's almost impossible for me not to write. Haish. Probably an OCD thingy as well. FML.

Anyway, i'm gonna review the sheet mask i've been using every week lately (more than half of the box is finished by now) that i've purchased from Sasa My Beauty Diary Valentine Chocolate Set (you can read my haul here)

Picture taken from Sasa.com

I think it's a limited edition they came up with for Valentine's Day? I don't really know but it doesn't seem to still be available in Sasa anymore but i thought i'd review them anyway because My Beauty Diary has (LOADS) of other masks and i'm sure they sells chocolate and rose ones (like the ones in this set) separately (or something similar at least like this Chocolate Truffle ones or something), so if you're thinking of buying a similar product from them you'd at least have a clear picture on what to expect, okay :)!

My Beauty Diary's very famous in Asia (and i read on some UK and American blogs, seems like it's starting to make their way there too!) and i'm sure most of you have already heard of them. They've been around for quite a while but this is the first time i'm trying them out since i'm only very recently getting into the masks routine.

My Beauty Diary Valentine Chocolate Set

The set comes in a quite bulky transparent bulky box, it's quite heavy since they contained 12 pieces of sheet masks. Even though the set is called "Valentine Chocolate Set" but there were not only Chocolate masks inside, there were also Rose masks there (6 of each), Bulgarian White Rose masks to be exact.

I tried the Bulgarian White Rose mask first (because it actually was the one that attracted me to buy this set, you know Rose's my favorite floral scent).

My Beauty Diary Bulgarian White Rose mask

Comes in a pale baby pink sachet, so pretty

The sachet's pale pink and quite plain (but i'm biased, whenever i see baby pinks i'd immediately fall in love no matter what) with Chinese writings on them (i googled and i think this brand came from Taiwan, please correct me if i'm wrong).

Once you tear off the sachet, you'll find the sheet mask itself, it is folded neatly with a plastic layer inside, probably to make them less prone to tearing. Unlike other sheet masks i used before (NuFace's, Acnes', etc) with sturdier sheets, MBD's (short for My Beauty Diary lah :p) are much softer and thinner, it's not super fragile or anything but you'd want to be gentle with it (and watch those claws LOL), once i removed them roughly and i succesfully tore the sheet in pieces, thankfully it was after i was finished using them.

I love the way this mask smells! LOVE LOVE it! Heavenly rose smell, don't worry if you have a sensitive nose because it's actually quite subtle and now over powering at all, so it won't assault your nose haha. The sheet's absolutely drenched in the serum, after i finished putting them on my face my hands would be absolutely drenched in liquid so i rub them all over my hunny's face *waste not, people*, they are more than enough for his entire face!!!

After a while the masks made my skin tingle a little bit, on the first use the tingling sensation around my mouth was a little bit too much, kinda like when you accidentally wipe your mouth area after touching eucalyptus oil LOL, but less severe of course.

I removed them after about an hour LOL (instruction said 30 minutes but it was still very wet so i left them a longer :p), and even after one hour when i squeezed the sheet lots of the serum would still be there! I then proceed to use them on hunny's hands and feet, yes all four of them! My hunny's 1.79cm tall okay, so he has very long limbs, and the remaining serum was always enough to cover everything, superb!

I find my skin to be slightly sticky afterward, dries off quite fast (but won't be as dry as Acnes okay since this one's not targeted to control oil on your skin). The next morning my face would be very oily LOL and sticky, but that's okay, it's because this mask is supposed to moisturize (and lighten, but i'm sure they mean brighten) your skin, the oil on my face didn't become worse or anything so no harm done. My face does feel very soft, supple and brighter after each use! I am loving it to the max!

Wahahahaha, did i scare you? (hey, you should be used to photos of me wearing sheet masks by now :p)

What about the chocolate one?

My Beauty Diary Chocolate Mask

The sachet itself is cuter than the Bulgarian White Rose, with its mock cartoon-chocolate bar prints and writings, inside's exactly the same with the Bulgarian Rose so i didn't take any pictures.

How the chocolate one feels on and after were also almost the same with the Bulgarian Rose, but i personally feel it's less tingly than the other one somehow. I love the smell of this one too (and hunny does too, i think he likes this one better than the rose one coz he's a guy right haha. Yes, of course i also slather the extra serum all over him!), very yummy like a real chocolate! It does not smell like an overpowering artificial chocolate like how most beauty stuffs with chocolate scents tend to be, this mask actually smells really natural. So if you like your masks to smell yummy, this one is a must try!

I love this set and would recommend this MBD masks, i think it'd work well on dry skin as well (because it does my hunny's super dry skin good), and for people with oily skin-there's nothing not to love from these masks. And they are not expensive either! I totally thought MBS' masks would be expensive but this set was USD 13.50, or roughly IDR 130.000 for 12 pieces, so it's actually only IDR 10.800 something each! That's a lot cheaper than those sheet masks you can purchase locally at drugstores or groceries! Even the Acnes ones costs me like IDR 16.000! You can buy it at Sasa.com when they are having a free shipping promo (with minimum purchase, you can buy two sets and stock them or something-an advice from the human squirell)!

So, of course i'd purchase more (actually because i was so in love with these masks i quickly ordered a bunch of other masks from Sasa :p, another dozen or so but from different brands and variants), i'd want to try other variants though (but i'm definitely getting the Bulgarian White Rose again because i love the smell so much!).

Leaving your with a photo of #Undecided and i with our other BFFs (plus my very pregnant cousin, L), taken on my birthday two years ago (i think), the dress code was animal print!! Yes, it was just to piss #Undecided off but she was game enough to actually purchase and wore one! That's how much she loves me! LOL!