Alerted to a website called Trouva & their beauty section, I took an interest in this Meraki Scrub. The no frills packaging designed by Scandinavian aesthetics and free of Parabens, Colorants, Endocrine disrupting substances. I found interesting as endocrine is a group of glands that produce hormones that regulate metabolism, growth and development, tissue function, sexual function, reproduction, sleep, and mood, among other things, having certain ingredients in products can cause disruption and unfortunate long term affects on our body.
Why Walnuts?
Within the ingredients it does have ground walnuts, which have hard shells but they give the smoothest results on skin as they're ground down to fine particles, sterilized and packaged up. You can always see the light brown particles within the scrub being that they are very hard they don't break down within the scrub. With them being so hard they'll give an effective exfoliation it is noted that this scrub isn't safe or to be used on the face and I believe it's due to the fact the walnuts are hard and the face and especially the delicate eye area it'll break down the skin. Walnut Scrub
When someone strokes my skin - not a regular thing - I like that they compliment that it's smooth and soft. I put it down to dedicated exfoliation & natural homemade moisturiser. Now you should know by now I love a coffee scrub, wooooo! *ric flair voice* but it's not ideal for everyday because it's a dampen skin, rub down skin, let it dry for about 10 minutes, rinse. So...need something that's more that on the go. Ingredients : Aqua, Sodium Coco-Sulfate, Acrylates Copolymer, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Juglans Regia Shell Powder, Sodium Hydroxide, C12-15 Pareth-12, Sodium PCA, Sodium Levulinate, Potassium Sorbate, Farnesol, Limonen/d-Limonene, Linalool.
Enter...Meraki Linen Dew Walnut Scrub with it's slight minty aroma. I noticed it has Juglans Regia Shell Powder which is a soft walnut shell powder,that they've immersed in the fatty acid from coconut oil. The texture is a watery gel consistency, once on the skin it's gliding and helping o move those walnut shell particles. Bottom line, it's effective, doesn't dry out the skin, keeps it a little hydrated most of these ingredients are natural making it all good for the skin. It's £15.50 for 250ml, has a bit of a price tag on it but then I purchase coffee scrubs for around the same cost.
Tried a walnut scrub before?
Purchase: Meraki Linen Dew Walnut Scrub
Sample.
I like a walnut scrub much better for the environment than microbeads.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it's important to be conscious with products these days
DeleteThis scrub sounds and looks so nice! I'm a sucker for nice scrubs so I'll be looking into this really soon!
ReplyDeleteWhitney xoxo | Whitney Loren.
So am I, I think I'm a little addicted to exfoliating lol
DeleteI've never heard of Walnut scrub but it really sounds like it does the trick x
ReplyDeleteIt does and as pointed out above, good for the environment x
DeleteI love scrubs like this, and they always make my skin feel amazing after.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, that soft skin you can't stop stroking lol
DeleteThis sounds lovely, I like that it doesn't dry out the skin! :)
ReplyDeleteThe packaging is really nice, too, I'm loving this minimal style at the moment.
Jess xo | The Indigo Hours
Me too, that's what caught my eye :)
DeleteNever tried a walnut scrub before but would definitely love to one day, it looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteI hope you do, they're beneficial to the skin
DeleteOh wow this sounds really unusual! H x
ReplyDeleteYeah, really don't think I tried one before with walnuts in x
DeleteI've not tried a walnut scrub before but have seen a few around now. This one looks lovely (almost good enough to eat in that packaging!) glad to hear you enjoyed using it.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely going to look out for more, be nice to try alternative ones. It does, I agree lol
DeleteI've ust one of their scrubs to try! I was debating on getting the walnut one (but didn't) after reading this I might have to treat myself to some as well. x
ReplyDeleteOh I'm interested in seeing what you've choxen from them now,hopefully I will see soon x
DeleteThis sounds like a really great product. I need something like this in my life.
ReplyDeleteThink we all need a good scrub in our lives lol :)
DeleteNow this sounds just absolutely lovely, I adore a good body scrub x
ReplyDeleteIt is, nice handy scrub for in the shower or bath. Exfoliates and doesn't dry the skin out x
DeleteNo I haven't tried this sort of scrub before but I want to.
ReplyDeleteOne for the future :)
DeleteYou have completely sold me on this one! I've browsed the Trouva website a couple of times but this product never caught my eye. I'm really into scrubs at the moment so will probably purchase this one in the near future. :)
ReplyDeleteThe website was completely new to me, but browsing I like the minimal products they supply etc. It's a very nice scrub, smells not too overpowering but it's effective with what it needs to do x
DeleteThis looks so nice! My face is ridiculously sensitive, so I generally avoid physical exfoliators but I might see if they've got other things I could try...
ReplyDeleteOh you wouldn't use this on the face, walnut is too harsh for that - body only. They have other nice products to choose from though x
DeleteI am terrible for remembering to exfoliate but just before holidays I tend to splurge. I really like the sound of the walnut scrub (was never a fan of coffee scrubs)
ReplyDeleteOh yes get those dead skin cells off...radiate the skin lol x
DeleteSomething else I need to look into haha! I love your skincare posts, I really need to exfoliate more often and this walnut scrub sounds perfect x
ReplyDeleteThanks boo, yeah I like how it's environmentally friendly and effective. Gotta love a good scrub x
DeleteI have not heard or tried of this, but sounds something that i would get around to trying :)
ReplyDeleteI have tried making my own exfoliaters and cleansing with honey, but never thought of trying walnuts :)
thnak you .
That's amazing. Yes you could definitely make your own with some walnut powder or something. Be nice to see a final product if you do :)
DeleteNever tried a scrub like this before but I definitely want to give one a try now x
ReplyDeleteAlways nice to discover new scrubs x
DeleteI love scrubs but never tried yet the walnut.This looks like worth to try.
ReplyDeleteI love scrubs and this one looks great! I will have to purchase it soon!
ReplyDeletexoxo, Candice
http://www.candicenikeia.com
I had no idea that walnuts could be good for the skin! Sounds like a good scrub :)
ReplyDeleteI have never tried a walnut scrub before but it is interesting to know more about endocrine, I had no idea so many products used it.
ReplyDeleteOmg this scrub sounds amazing! I would love to use it on my skin x
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