I was not going to buy this. One of the premises of this blog is that I would
not buy anything that I anticipated before even trying it I would dislike it –
that does not seem fair to the ratings to go into with a negative
attitude. But I was curious about this body butter…
I love lotion – I use it every single day. And I really like body butters (oh man, the unscented
generic one from Sephora is amaaaazing and David often gets me a tub of it for
Christmas!). So I wondered about this
Trader Joe’s one, but I was afraid I would not like the scent.
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| Look, it is LUXURIOUS, it says so right on the label!!! |
One night recently when I was checking out at Trader Joe’s
I asked my checker if he has tried this product yet. He had a stack of them sitting at his
register. He said he hadn’t tried it
(secretly I was hoping he would say, “Should we open one up and give it a
whiff??” but he didn’t). But then I overheard
the cashier right behind me offering some to HIS customer to try! Well, you don’t have to ask me twice (technically,
no one had asked me once, but go with it…)!!
I turned around and inserted myself into their conversation and grabbed
a blob of the body butter to rub on my hands.
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| Of COURSE it is a "Flyer Item" - it is OCTOBER! Every pumpkin product is a flyer item this month. :) |
It was nice! The texture
seemed good and the smell was not overpowering (as I had feared it might
be). It seemed to smell more like AUTUMN, more like
SPICE, than stinking like a PUMPKIN PIE.
It was nice. I thought maybe I
had previously just had a bad attitude toward pumpkin scented things and I
should get with the program.
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| In store selfie... I was a little bit nervous about this product... |
I would have picked up a tub of it then and there but my
cashier was done ringing me up and had everything bagged so I finished up and
left. But the next time I went into a TJ’s
I got a tub of the Pumpkin Body Butter. I
was still NERVOUS, mind you, but the little sample on my hands had gone well
enough that I thought a tub might be just the thing for the autumn weather.
That charge of $4.99 for this product will soon be a
refund…
I put this body butter on today after my shower. I mean – I PUT. IT.
ON. Everywhere. All over my whole body. It is sticky
going on. Once it was all on and rubbed
in it was not too sticky, however…
I SMELL LIKE A CANDLE.
I smell like a rust colored pillar candle in the middle of a harvest
centerpiece on the Thanksgiving table.
David said, “You are bloody AUTUMNAL is what you are!!”.
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| If you like smelling like a human sized pumpkin pie this is the body butter for you. |
I don’t really smell so much like – well – I smell more
like a PIE than I would like. I am not
the sort of person who likes fragrances that smell like FOOD. Case in point, you will not see BIRTHDAY CAKE
scented lotion in my cupboard (even though I really like one manufacturer who
mistakenly (IMHO) makes that scent…). That
is disgusting! If I want to eat a
birthday cake I will EAT A BIRTHDAY CAKE.
I don’t want my ARM to smell like a birthday cake!!!
So, to wrap this up, this body butter goes on
sticky. After you get it on the texture
is okay. And the scent is good IIIIFFF
you want to walk around smelling like a big pumpkin pie (or centerpiece candle). If you do not want to smell like a pumpkin
pie, just use some from a sample jar one time on your hands when you are at
Trader Joe’s. Trust me. Learn from my mistake.
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| I have to give them points for the lid. It's quite ingenious. |
Because this is not sticky after you get it on, and
because some people actually want to smell like walking desserts, I do not feel
I can give this product a zero score (even though I am going to return it and
ask for my money back). I mean, some
people might LIKE this… It is not
HORRIBLE. It did not make me throw up
and I did not jump in the shower and wash it all off. Oh, it also has a really cool lid , you can
either unscrew it like a traditional body butter lid or you can pop the middle
of the top off.
Because of those positive, I will not give it this
product a zero. J
P.S. – lest you think I hate all things pumpkin, make sure
to read tomorrow’s review of MINI PUMPKIN PIES!
Price - $4.99
Rating - 2
