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Balea Bodycreme Copacabana Review

By Maychiri's Thoughts - December 21, 2022

Hello!

The second review for today is going to be the lovely Balea Bodycreme Copacabana.

I honestly wasn’t planning to buy it, but when I saw that it was available at my local DM, and at a serious discount as well, I just had to buy it! It was literally like £1.15 (what a steal)! I didn’t have any expectations, so let’s see whether it is a good cream or a rubbish cream.
 

 
Let’s start with the packaging: it’s quite simple, just a plastic tub with a cap and a safety lid inside it. I really like the colour they used, the coral is really pretty and quite summery, too! There’s also really pretty drawings of palm leaves, which adds to the summery feel. In general, the plastic feels quite sturdy and the cap can be screwed extremely tightly.
 
 
 

Ingredients: sweet almond (Prunus amygdalus dulcis) oil, glycerine, shea (Butyrospermum parkii) butter, coconut (Cocos nucifera) oil, cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum) seed butter, wild carrot (Daucus carota sativa) seed oil, vitamin E, açaí (Euterpe oleracea) fruit oil, guarana (Paullinia cupana) seed extract. Whew! That’s a very impressive list of emollients and caring ingredients, especially at the price this was being sold at! Naturally, no parabens. There’s also caramel, but I will come back to it in a minute. The scent is divine! It’s a very, and I mean very, tasty scent that reminds of a traditional American apple pie! Besides the sweet apple pie-like scent, I can also smell a salty, buttery scent that smells like beach in the evening, or maybe even that’s what the Brazilian Copacabana would smell like! Remember how a few moments ago I said that there’s caramel in the ingredients list? Well, that’s definitely where the salty notes come from. The scent is intense but it also quite relaxing and very pleasant! I really, really love how it smells! The expiration date is sadly only 6 months after opening.
 

The colour of this cream is light cream/light beige; it really looks like butter! The formula is also divine, just like the scent! It’s a very rich, creamy and thick formula that is so wonderfully easy to spread on skin thanks to all the butters and oils present in this cream. It really feels more like butter than a cream, but that’s just nit-picking. Although it is a thick formula it is not heavy, neither while applying it nor afterwards on the way it feels on the skin; it’s a wonderfully light formula that is perfect for summer. It is very easy to buff into the skin, although it does leave a white cast for quite a long time. I find that to be an acceptable trade-off for how nourishing and hydrating it is, which is to say, extremely. Since it’s got a ton of emollients in it, it’s no surprise that the skin feels incredibly soft after applying it and I could even feel how the skin is taking all that hydrating goodness in, which is a sign of this cream being super hydrating.
 

Applying it was super easy, it is so beautifully creamy and soft and glides across skin like butter. The rich formula is not one bit greasy and is absorbed within 10 seconds. About five minutes later the white cast has almost completely disappeared. It’s like the rich, creamy formula literally absorbs instantaneously on skin contact!
 
 

After using this cream for some time, mainly after shaving (by the way, it is literally perfect for that), I can safely say that my skin loves it! The cream calms it down, minimising any chances post-shaving irritations or bumps could form, and the skin feels hydrated and silky soft for hours after applying the cream. There were no signs of any kind of irritation from using this cream, thankfully, because if it were so, I would have been really sad because I wouldn’t be able to use this amazing cream.
 
 

All in all, this is a shockingly great body cream! I know a lot of people who would scoff at it due to it being really low-priced, but it literally feels like a luxurious high-end cream. There’s a buttload of nourishing ingredients packed inside this cream that all work to make your skin extremely soft and make sure it is well hydrated. The formula is rich, creamy and wonderful to use, being very easy to buff into the skin and it is absorbed within seconds. One of the best things though, is the scent! I am in love with this scent because it is at the same time summery (reminds of beaches in the evening) and so yummy (reminds me of caramel and apple pie). The only negatives I could point out is that its shelf life is quire short (just 6 months after opening) for such a large size, and that it leaves a white residue on skin (it does disappear after a while though). What a spectacular cream Balea has mixed up in their lab/factory/whatever! Absolutely recommend it!
 
 

NB: it was 50% off at my DM, so it is unfortunately likely that it won’t be manufactured anymore. What a tragedy! Just when you find such a fantastic product, it is soon discontinued, just my kind of luck!
 
 
 

Rating: 9.5/10
 
 

Would buy again? YES (if it wasn’t discontinued, that is)

Price at time of first purchase:19.90 9.90 HRK ( ~2.64 1.31 € )

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