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Home » Bath & Body » BioValley Tea Tree Shower Cream : Not A Bathtime Fave

BioValley Tea Tree Shower Cream : Not A Bathtime Fave

July 14, 2010 Paris B 10 Comments

I picked this one up together with the Biovalley Alpine Mint & Herbal shampoo. While I rather enjoyed using the former for its fresh minty feel, I’m not very happy with this shower cream. Lucky it comes in a small size bottle.

BioValley Tea Tree Shower Cream

I wanted to try the Rosemary & Geranium Shower Cream at first, because it sounds lovely. However, I did not like how it smells. It did not smell of Geranium, or what I associate the smell of Geranium to be so I passed and went for Tea Tree instead.

This has a powdery scent with just a hint of the astringent Tea Tree Oil smell. Too little of a hint for me – I like the smell of Tea Tree Oil so I found the powder smell too overwhelming. What I cannot get over is the texture of this shower cream. It feels and looks like the glue my late gran used to cook up 😛

I don’t know if you remember this, but when I was a kid, my granny used to make glue for me from starch. I think she’d cook up the starch till it becomes opaque and gummy. This is how the shower cream feels and looks.

When I squeeze it out of the bottle, if I let go before the dollop of cream falls into my palm, it all gets pulled back into the bottle. Provided me moments of fun initially until I got fed up with it.

Otherwise, it cleans the skin decently enough, though I don’t get the lovely CLEAN feel that I do with the Indocine Naturals body wash. This one leaves you clean but not with that CLEAN feel – if you get what I mean.

Used together with the shampoo, my hands peeled like crazy. Used separately, they don’t fare so badly although the skin on my hands still dry up. Like the shampoo, this is SLS and Paraben free. But as commentators have noted, Ammonium Laureth Sulfate is just as abrasive if not more.

Its cheap though. The 300ml bottle cost just RM8.90 or thereabouts. I picked mine up at Carrefour supermarket.

Pros: Affordable, cleans skin a treat without drying

Cons: Reminds me of glue, Dried the skin on my hands, Scent isn’t pleasing

I don’t like the scents they come in and I’d prefer if they made the texture more like that of the shampoo – clear and free flowing, rather than thick and gummy. Not something I’d repurchase at all. In fact, not something I want to continue to use in my shower but I do just because its there 😛

Paris B

BioValley Tea Tree Shower Cream 300ml retails at RM8.90 or so at Carrefour hypermarkets and some Guardian pharmacies

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  1. Vonvon says

    July 14, 2010 at 10:05 am

    LOL on the glue-y part. Fun but yea, can be a pain….

    Sorry to hear that your hands peeled from using them.

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    • ParisB says

      July 14, 2010 at 10:33 am

      Yep my hands are more sensitive than my body or face it would seem – how odd 😛

      Reply
  2. lemon says

    July 14, 2010 at 10:15 am

    Could it be good things no cheap & cheap things no good?

    Anyway, wanna tell u & d rest abt Crabtree & Evelyn(expensive) promotion in the new Empire Shopping Gallery. Buy above RM280, rebate 100 on the spot, get 3 small tube of hands treatment (worth Rm75) in lavendar for free. Meaning you just hv to pay Rm180. Promotion ends 1st Aug.

    I am thinking what to buy…..

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    • ParisB says

      July 14, 2010 at 10:33 am

      You know, it would really suck if all cheap things were no good 🙁 But this one I don’t like one bit 🙁

      Thanks for the info about the Crabtree promo! Will be sharing on FB Credits to you 🙂

      Reply
  3. jojoba (My Makeup Reviews) says

    July 14, 2010 at 11:14 am

    i tried and loved the shampoo from this brand but haven’t ventured out to other products. it’s too bad this didn’t work for you. i will avoid it in the future. thanks for the review.

    the shampoo is cheap and good. 😛

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    • ParisB says

      July 14, 2010 at 11:58 am

      Glad to know the shampoo worked for you. It was mostly meh for me

      Reply
  4. rinnah says

    July 14, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    Hmm… I didn’t like the sound of it at all… I’ll give this a pass then. 😛

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    • ParisB says

      July 14, 2010 at 7:17 pm

      Yeah pass on it 😛

      Reply
  5. Jyoan says

    July 15, 2010 at 8:43 am

    Having like both the Mint and Coconut Shampoo so much, I almost picked this up too. But I have still have so much shower foam at home!

    The 500ml shampoo really lasts a long long time! Been in m’sia for 3 months now, and both only half gone. haha. I will have a hard time finding really therapeutic shampoo at this kind of price when I return to Singapore.

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  6. deels says

    July 25, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    Thanks very much for the review Paris! I have been using Biovalley Virgn Coconut Oil & Milk Protein Shampoo for about 2 months or so now. The fact that it doesn’t contain SLS really appeals to me; it’s difficult to find SLS-free shampoos at the local supermarkets here so when I came across this one I literally grabbed it! It really made my hair smooth the very first time I used it (I have greasy roots but really dry hair when they’re not wet if you see what I mean). But from the 2nd application onwards, it’s just normal. My hair however, feels a lot better compared to when it did when I first came back to Malaysia end of January. I’ll continue using this shampoo when I’m here (500ml is a lot!) but once I’m back in the UK I will use my favourite shampoo again Philosophy 3 in 1 Melon Daquiri.

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