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Lotus Herbals Seduction Botanical Tinted Lip Gloss in #33 Berry Smoothie Review

Lotus Herbals has brought in many products that are commendable. Today I’m going to review a lip gloss from their range. This is named as the “Seduction Botanical Tinted Lip Gloss”. The shade is “Berry Smoothie”.

Claims:
A unique high-gloss, non-sticky formula, SEDUCTION™ not only gives a wonderful shimmer to your lips but also keeps them soft and supple for a longer period of time. Available in 15 fun shades, its special sponge applicator covers the lips precisely. Additionally, you can use SEDUCTION™ Botanical Tinted Lip Gloss to add that extra zing to your lip colour without altering it.

Price & Quantity: Rs.245 for 5ml

Shade: Berry Smoothie

Key Ingredients: Enriched with botanical extracts of Grapes and Jojoba.

Usage Instructions: Smooth the lip color onto the lips

Shelf Life: Not mentioned

My Experience:

Packaging: The packaging is quite sturdy and simple and is absolutely safe to carry in your handbag. The body of the container is transparent showing the color and the quantity left.

Color, Consistency & Fragrance: Berry Smoothie is a pink colored gloss. The consistency is semi-solid and not too runny, making the application easy. It has mild floral fragrance that does not bother at all.

How it works: I am personally not a lip gloss person. At times I get attracted seeing their display at counters. So, this was one of my impulsive shopping. But definitely I was not let down by this. The gloss has a doe-foot applicator. The applicator picks up enough product on the first go. Nevertheless, the color can be built with two or more swipes. This is my on-the-go lip gloss..when I don’t want anything heavy on my lips. It does not give heavy coverage, so not very suitable for pigmented lips. I use a concealer pencil beneath to get a neat even coverage. It lasts for 2-3 hours without meals/drinks in between.This can be applied over a lippie but I do not prefer it that way. The gloss contains mild shimmer that doesn’t show-up evidently when applied.

See below the swatch on my wrist and how it looks on my lips. (wow that sounds nice lol)

Note: I have not applied any lip pencil or concealer to my lips in the below pic.

PROS:

Decently priced lip gloss from lotus herbals
Good quality for the price
Color range is wide; you have 15 shades to choose from!
Feels light on lips; not sticky or heavy
Doesn’t dry out lips

CONS:

Staying power is less
Though not drying, it doesn’t moisturize the lips as well.

Makeup and Beauty Home Rating: 4/5

Do I Recommend: I recommend this range to all beauties who love lip glosses.

Would I Repurchase ?:
Yes, I will try other shades.

Lotus Herbals WhiteGlow Oatmeal & Yogurt Skin Whitening Scrub Review

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Hello darlingzzz 😀

Last year Lotus herbals launched their skin care range called “Lotus white glow range”

Face wash, scrub, cream, emulsion, serum and mask are part of this series. Somehow I really don’t like skin whitening products because most of them are drying in nature. Once I used Olay cream and it broke me out crazily 🙁 but still the packaging, reviews on many blogs attracted me a lot and I have to try something from this range :p so I picked this white glow scrub and here is my experience and detailed review on it.

Product description:
WHITEGLOW Oatmeal & Yogurt Skin Whitening Scrub exfoliates the skin gently, removes dirt, impurities, whiteheads and blackheads leaving your skin brighter and healthier with a shining glow. The gentle exfoliating action works on skin discoloration, dull and uneven skin tones and softens the skin giving you a firmer skin texture. Oatmeal exfoliates gently, restores the natural moisture balance of skin and yogurt moisturizes and lightens the skin reducing imperfections giving you silky, smooth and brighter skin.

Key Ingredients: Oatmeal and milk yogurt

Usage Directions: Gently apply the scrub on moistened skin with brisk circular movement on the face and neck. Rinse thoroughly and pat dry. Use twice a week for brighter skin. Follow with yogurt radiance mask for best results.

Price and Quantity:145 for 100gm

Shelf life: 36 months

My Experience

Packaging: The product comes in a pretty white tube with a metallic cap but this tube is not at all travel friendly as the cap is loose and the tube tends to break easily in case if it fell down.

Colour, Consistency and Fragrance: This scrub is creamy white in colour and thick in consistency. It has a very artificial smell which is very disturbing for my sensitive nose.

How it works: I have a love and hate relationship with Lotus Herbals. Some of their products (Berry Berry scrub and 4-1 sunscreen)suits me well but some make my skin dry (there face packs including fruit pack which is meant for dry skin). Okay let me concentrate on this product. I didn’t have a good experience with this product. This scrub just adds a lil glow to my skin after application which lasts hardly for 10 minutes. I am using this scrub regularly twice a week for more than two months to see the effect but to be frank it does nothing to my skin. I did not expect any whitening and brightening results from this scrub because I know nothing can change our original skin color apart from some heavy bleach like kojic acid and hydroquinone. It did not help me in removing acne scars, black heads and white heads. Wanna know more? It is harsh on my sensitive skin! 🙁 but the only good thing about the product is it does not dry our my skin or broke me out. Overall, this is an average-good scrub for normal-dry skin types. If you’re skin is skin is extra sensitive, then do not go for this.

Pros:

Affordable
Available easily
Its not drying; hence dry skins will love it
Does the exfoliation part well
Adds a little glow to the face after usage
Does not break me out
Works good as a foot scrub :p

I am really sorry I cant think of any other pros 🙁

Cons:

It claims too many things but delivers nothing
It’s not at all a gentle product for sensitive skin types.
Smell bad and artificial.
Tube breaks easily and not travel friendly
Contains a big list of chemicals.
Pareben is present. How could Lotus herbals says it’s a herbal product? :O

Makeup and Beauty Home Rating: 2/5 (Because it is working well as a foot scrub :p)

Recommendation: If you have sensitive nose cum sensitive skin then please don’t waste your money on this product.:( However normal-dry skinned people may find this scrub good on their skin because it isn’t drying and moreover, it doesn’t break out skin.

Lotus Herbals Kera-Veda Soyashine Shampoo Review

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It has been a long time I reviewed shampoos and today I felt like reviewing one and have chosen the Lotus Herbals Kera-Veda Soyashine shampoo. I had been using this shampoo for past one month and have another variant of Shika Shampoo in Lotus herbals too, but still I wanted to review this first. I will be reviewing the conditioner later so keep on reading. Few lines about Lotus herbals as per the site are “Lotus Herbals products are honest herbal formulations. Inspired by Ayurveda, a 5000 year old science of life, each product contains combination extracts of different herbs to protect, heal and enhance the face, body and hair. Lotus Herbals is a reputed, trusted and valued natural products’ brand. Formulated in India, it has the distinction of being one of the most sought after brands in many asian and european countries.” Okay now let us move on to my review.

Lotus Herbals Kera-Veda Soyashine Shampoo

Price: Rs.165 for 220 ml

Shelf Life: 3 years.

Product Description

This Unique combination of soya Protein and Brahmi not only strengthens and nourishes lifeless, thin and delicate hair, but also adds luster and bounce to them. The hydrolyzed soya protein penetrates and strengthens hair to protect against damage while Brahmi darkens hair color and promotes hair growth as well.

Usage Directions

Apply the desired quantity on wet hair and lather it up. Rinse thoroughly. Follow it with SOYASMOOTH Conditioner for best results.

My Views and Ratings

The Packaging

The shampoo comes in a flat yellow plastic bottle with a green flip top cap. I first of all was satisfied with the packaging as it is hygienic but the flip cap is so hard to open. It ends in hurting my thumb at times 🙁 Other than that the bottle is sturdy and travel friendly.

3.5/5

Colour, Consistency & Fragrance

The colour is semi trasparent + white mixed and the texture is smooth, neither thick nor too runny. I expected the fragrance to be flowery or sweet but it has just an ordinary herbal smell.

4/5

How it Works

I used this shampoo for about 3 weeks and it doesn’t make my hair shiny or bouncy as per the claims. It is a normal shampoo which adds a some shine to hair but definitely not for dry scalps and dry hair types. It lathers pretty good and a single bottle lasts for a long time. This shampoo didn’t work for my hair fall much and overall, it is a normal herbal shampoo with at least no side effects. I recommend this shampoo for oily and normal hair types, surely not for dry scalps. I will be starting to use this once again, but with the soya shine conditioner to give my review of the soyashine conditioner.

3.5/5

PROS