I do not mention it much on Oolong Owl, but I am a bit of a beauty junkie. I got well over a hundred nail polishes and my lip stick stash is starting to look a little out of control. My hand lotion stash is so bad you likely can go to every room in my house and find hand lotion. Like health benefits, I’m not particularly sold on tea adding anything special to my beauty products. However, since I love tea I am drawn to tea ingredients or themes for all my other products.
While I was packing and unpacking my things for my move, I found all my tea beauty products and snapped some photos. So many tea beauty products!
Tea Lotions
DAVIDsTea Lotion – I literally panicked when I heard DAVIDsTea was selling tea lotion. I panicked as I HAD TO HAVE IT NOW, but I do not live near a DAVIDsTea. I ordered a couple right away, and the next time I was at a DAVIDsTea, I purchased one. It seems every season or so they have other scents. I find the hand lotion is really strong smelling. The Serenity Now scent is too potent and smells like Flintstones vitamins. The Pumpkin Spice one is very nice and is my favorite. It has a bit of a powdery smooth feel once dry, if you are into that lotion. It is not bad, but expensive. It appears DAVIDsTea has a whole beauty line now with lip butters and lip glosses too.
Bath & Body Works Lotion in Chai Biscotti – Bath & Body Works is a love hate relationship with me. I am technically allergic to perfumes – many scents set me off into a migraine. More natural, earthy, fresh, spice, and sweet scents work fine with me. Bath & Body Work stores is an instant migraine for me, but yet I still want to go in and smell the things. I found this spiffy tea lotion last holiday season. There was also a Chamomile & Bergamot one, but this one smells lovely like I could steep myself into a tasty chai.
Body Shop Fuji Green Tea body butter – Body Shop is another shop I love, but does not set off my allergies. Oddly, Body Shop seems less popular in the USA compared to Canada, and is often more money, best saved only for sales or trips to Canada. This Body Shop Fuji Green Tea body butter, OMG, is so nice! The scent is sweet, fresh, and is overall a great product. It moisturizes great and I smell like a sweet sencha bomb. By the way, this scent has its own entire line – besides the body butter you can get an exfoliating soap, body wash, body lotion, body scrub, perfume and a bath tea with giant teaball. I’ve seen many bath tea type products, however that is one item I stay away from as I bet bathing with tea and chunks would be an awful bathtub cleaning experience.
The Everything Wonderbalm – This product actually has tea oil in it! The Everything Wonderbalm is super thick. It is just like a natural, homemade beeswax and coconut oil concoction. This stuff is great on hands during dry winters. The scent is lavender and is pretty light. I could see this being a nice lip balm too.
Tea Skin Care
St Ives Green Tea Scrub – I found I had three tubes of these, but yet I don’t use this product that much. If you like that St Ives Apricot Scrub, give the Green Tea one a try. I personally like the green tea one better as it’s less aggressive. I find these scrubs too harsh for regular use, and when I use them, I only use them on my nose and chin. I’ll get on my high owl perch and say you are better off getting a liquid exfoliating BHA or AHA serum than use abrasive products.
fresh age-delay Black tea eye concentrate and Royal Apothic Cuppa Cuppa Firming Tea Treatment Mask – This is samples of some black tea skin treatments. fresh has a few, all I have left is the fresh age-delay Black tea eye concentrate, but I did have another lotion of theirs that I used up. Royal Apothic has a neat exfoliating firming tea mask. I haven’t tried it yet as I’m weary of exfoliaters.
Sheet Masks! – Every time I see a tea sheet mask I buy it. I have three different ones here:
There are a ton of green tea sheet masks. Poking around amazon, here is the Epielle Facial Essence mask Green Tea & Aloe. I have a giant pile of sheet masks. I’ve tried all three and love them! I actually can’t tell the difference between these sheet masks other than smell. Either way, I find they all work really well in making my skin feel moisturized and fresh. There is an added bonus of scaring your SO with them!
Goodal Yerba Mate Cleaning Foam and Bubble Peeling Mask – I had packed this with my other Korean beauty samples. Yerba mate bubbling your face off cream? I haven’t gotten around to trying this.
Coola Suncare SPF 50 Sunscreen White tea – The skin care and beauty nut I am, I sun screen all the time. Sunscreen is likely the most important thing you can slap on your face. I got this sample of the Coola White tea sunscreen and I love it! I have two other Coola Sunscreens and love them all. Love this white one sunscreen so much I cannot find where I hid it on myself so I don’t use it all up! Anyways, here is a picture taken from Amazon.
Tea Makeup
The Beauty Crop Lighting Crew Pineapple & Green Tea Highlighting Cream – I got this in a beauty box, I’m not sure which one as I’ve been subbed to Ipsy, Birchbox, and Sephora Play. Highlighting is big this summer and this one has a nice scent and high impact glow.
Bam, highlighted!
Memebox – I had a blog post awhile back on this Korean Beauty Tea product box. Every beauty item in it had tea ingredients. Out of the entire box, this product is my holy grail. It is a overnight mask containing fermented tea. Pu’er? YES! This stuff makes my face feel and look amazing the next day. I don’t know where to buy more of this particular product, so I’m conserving it.
Chosungah 22 Flavorful Lipstick – When I heard about this product I also freaked, scrambled, then searched until I had it in my possession. It is a Korean clear flavored lip stick in the scent/colour “Chai Tea”. This item is so lovely, smells nice, has a touch of tint, and feels great to use. It is $18, I ended up purchasing mine at Birchbox. Right now, it appears Sephora and Amazon has a few items from the brand.
Modern Tea Girl Nail Polish in Sugared Peony – I bought this nail polish at World Tea Expo 2014. It is a pretty glitter sheer polish, great for french manicures. I don’t think it has tea in it, but as tea in the name and origin. Whatever, there’s enough tea mentioned to sucker me in!
Owl Lotions
Yeah, not tea related but omg OWLS! Behold my Korean Beauty Etude House Owl hand lotion!
Unscrew owl head for lovely lotion!
Sadly, I could not find these Etude House Owl lotions for sale anymore. I also have a bunch of other owl hand lotions and lip balms. The large pink owl is Wild Rose scent hand cream! I figure once I use the lotion and balms up, I can stash tea in the containers.
Yes, that is a dizzying amount of tea beauty products. I oddly do not have any tea hair products right now, nor have purchased any. Got any favorite tea beauty products? Leave a comment below!
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