Snow Globe Soap

Imagine yourself inside a snow globe – snow fluttering all around and a feeling of being refreshed, revitalised and uplifted. Well, this soap will make you feel all of the above, with a citrusy lemon myrtle, grapefruit and lemongrass blend that will bluster your senses and wake you up on cold winter mornings. The whole soap is in the shape of a snow globe, with white circles to imitate the snowflakes. 

On paper, this soap sounds and looks amazing. There is something old-fashioned and fantastical about snow globes, something that most likely stems from the fact that we don't tend to see very many of them around anymore. 

When I went on a mad Christmas spree back in November 2012, and after hearing so many good things about this soap, I just knew I had to buy a huge chunk. However, imagine my distain when my order arrived a few days later and I discovered that I didn't like it.

The initial scent is quite mellow, a mixture of grapefruit and lemongrass that promises to wake up even the most stubborn of people on a cold winter's morning. In fact, given it's main scent, I thought it would go wonderfully with my bottle of Happy Hippy. It contains Lemon Myrtle, grapefruit oil, rapeseed oil and coconut oil so it is still very moisturising.

However, all was not well when I first tried it in the shower and smelt an awful concoction of grapefruit and toilet cleaner.  Although it lathered up well, and I could feel that it was moisturising my skin, the overpowering smell of synthetic cleaner was all too prominent for my liking. 

They say that everyone's skin reacts differently to different scents, which is why the same perfume may smell completely different on multiple people. And this is definitely the case with Snow Globe. 

Despite switching to a different soap, the scent lingered on my skin for quite some time, which is no doubt a positive note for those that love the smell, but for me it was a very unpleasant experience. A positive note is that the cocktail of citrus oils that are used to construct this soap, also help to combat the scent of perspiration, so I found my skin was still fresh-smelling and clean some hours later.

However, my overall impression was jilted by that overpowering plastic-y scent that seemed to engulf my senses. This is not a soap I enjoyed at all, and definitely not one I would buy again.

Quantitative Ingredients: Water, Propylene Glycol, Rapeseed Oil and Coconut Oil, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Perfume, Organic Lemon Myrtle Oil, Ylang Ylang Oil, Grapefruit Oil, Titanium Dioxide, Sodium Chloride, Glycerine, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, *Citral, *Geraniol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Hydroxycitronellal, Methyl Lonone, Colour 42090.

Vegan?: Yes