101ideas.com » Eau de Toilette Spray http://101ideas.com everything about everything Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:52:41 +0000 en hourly 1 The Beauty of Green :: Fruits and Passion http://101ideas.com/2009/08/25/fruits-and-passions/ http://101ideas.com/2009/08/25/fruits-and-passions/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:30:29 +0000 dmak http://101ideas.com/?p=65 july09fruts-and_passion-02The green movement has reached beauty and skincare in a huge way over the last few years and with my continual search for body care that was not only good for the environment, but good for our bodies as well, I recently discovered a Canadian company that produces a line of Bio-degradable, sulfate-free, fruit essence- infused body care collections that fit perfectly for today’s enviro-concious beauty addicts! For over 16 years, Fruits and Passion have been leading the trend towards environmentally conscious, skin, body and home care. Take a closer look at how the body care collection did for my beauty test- drive.

First impressions of F&P’s latest release of brightly colored, quirky-sweet, body care collection was it definitely seemed geared toward the younger ‘tween/teen set. My son’s girlfriend who’s 13, absolutely loved the dense, fruit-scented perfumes of Mango, Apple and Peach and to be honest, I thought they were perfect for a girl her age) The re-useable shopping sack that the eau de toilette comes with adds to the enviro-concious quality of the brand and the package graphics are appealing too. I wasn’t about to consider this a write-off for the over 15 crowd, as there seemed to be so many aspects I liked about this brand and so for the purposes of my test-drive, I chose the lightest of the three, Apple Illusion.

This group consists of six components: A Foaming Bath, Shower gel, Hand cream, Hand Soap, and Body butter and Eau de Toilette Spray. I found the shower gel and bath foam made fantastic lather which I happily to noted were phosphate-free and contained over 90% natural and plant derived ingredients, which makes your skin so soft and smooth, that its totally worth smelling like a fruit stand!

I enjoyed using the hand lotion— (anyone who knows me, knows that I am obsessed with hand lotions due to the fact that I am constantly using hand cleaner when working on my clients, which makes my hands parched as the desert!) which was rich without being heavy, absorbed quickly and left my the hands smooth with a velvety finish that I really liked. The Eau de toilette was a bit much for me so I did pass it along. However, the body-butter? Absolutely AMAZING! Leaves you all luscious and juicy fresh. Yummm.

Bonus points?
Ethically harvested authentic fruit extracts
Bio degradable
Sulfate and Paraben –free

The company has been in development of “Green product” way before it became cool to do so, Kuddos to them!

I would like to say that while I had initially designated this collection of body and home goodies to be for a Gen Z crowd, but I may have to renege on that as I have gotten rather fond of the heady aroma of pure sweet apple and feel a bit naked without it!

So embrace your inner child, teen or whatever. It’ll put a smile on your face, do a bit for our world and make you smell damn good along the way.

Available at www.fruits-passion.com

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