Just one item for today, sadly. This is the Biobaza S.O.S.
Save Our Sea Natural Deo Cream.
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I wanted to buy something, anything from this collection
ever since I first saw it at DM. Namely, this collection supports Institut
Plavi Svijet (Blue World Institute), which is a charity organisation that works
to protect the marine environment in the Adriatic sea. Specifically, their
project “Jadranski dupin” (Adriatic Dolphin), which is a study of bottlenose
dolphins in the Adriatic sea, which are endangered here. With every purchase, a
small amount of money is donated to the Institute. I wanted to do a good deed
and help a good charity, so, after the whole collection got marked down I
finally bought the deo cream because it has this adorable sea turtle print, and
I love turtles! That said, this is a totally new product for me, as I always
use either roll-on deodorants or deodorant sticks. Never deodorant creams; so,
let’s see how it works and if it’s good!
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Packaging: the cardboard packaging is white with seafoam
green text, perfectly Mediterranean! Just look at the turtle, it’s so adorable!
The rest of the cardboard packaging is standard, nothing too special.
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The cream
itself is packaged in a metal pan. Again, just the green text and the turtle to
add some interesting details to the pan. The pan has a lid that screws on, and
boy does it screw on tightly! I often struggle to open it! Excellent! That
makes sure the cream stays fresh as long as possible.
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Ingredients: coconut (Cocos nucifera) oil, almond (Prunus
amygdalus dulcis) oil, shea (Butyrospermum parkii) butter, cocoa (Theobroma
cacao) butter, grape (Vitis vinifera) seed oil, vitamin E, and lavender (Lavandula
angustifolia) oil for nourishment. More than half of all the ingredients are
nourishing! Fantastic how there are so many emollients here. No parabens. The
scent contains no perfumes, it is a natural herbal scent, smelling like a mix
of sage and lavender. It’s quite an intense scent, a bit too intense for me.
But it is totally summery! The expiration date is 12 months after opening.
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I usually apply deodorants before going to sleep (that way
they are absorbed fully and work ideally as they should). This cream feels
relatively comfortable on my skin, except for the grains always scratching up
my skin. That’s not a huge deal as it doesn’t feel scratchy after it has been
absorbed. By the morning it’s become virtually invisible, super lightweight and
comfortable.
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However, and here come the problems, this cream does not
prevent me from sweating. Sure, it’s not marketed as an antiperspirant, just a
deodorising cream, but I still expect at least some level of sweat control. This
cream does not offer that, I still sweat pretty much exactly the same as
without this cream. And since it becomes so invisible by morning, I question
just how effective it can be at masking odours. Of course, I can’t really judge
that objectively, but it doesn’t really seem to eliminate odours at all. The
sage and lavender scent is gone by the morning, and they are what was supposed
to mask the smell of sweat, so without them it’s pretty much useless.
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Biobaza say that this cream “... provides a long-lasting
feeling of freshness, while nourishes the sensitive skin of the armpit area. (...)
[it] contains carefully selected ingredients that hydrate, soothe, and at the
same time have a natural deodorizing effect.”. Yeah, about that... while I am
sure that it nourishes the armpit area, and keeps it hydrated I don’t really
feel that at all. It does seem to soothe irritations after shaving, which is
alright. But I don’t really feel any differences in the condition of the skin
of my armpits. And it doesn’t last very long at all, especially if you are
wearing multiple layers of clothing like I do in autumn/winter.
All in all, this could’ve been a brilliant product. Alas,
it’s quite a let-down in reality. While I like the Mediterranean scent of sage
and lavender, and I guess I like that it nourishes the skin (despite not feeling
any difference whatsoever). But that’s pretty much all; the formula is weirdly
buttery yet waxy, with the top layer being especially difficult to work with. Once
you break through it, it becomes much more buttery and smooth but there’s still
some of that lingering waxiness present. Even worse, there some kind of
grain/sand inside the cream, giving it a very rough, abrasive feel on the skin.
That’s not at all comfortable. And it does nothing to control sweating. Look, I
naturally sweat a lot, no matter what, so I need something strong to control
that. This cream ain’t it, nuh-uh. I still sweat just as much as without it,
and without the sage scent, which tends to evaporate in a couple of hours (or
overnight) there’s nothing to mask the smell of sweat. I get it, it’s not
marketed as an antiperspirant, so I shouldn’t treat it as such, but it is still
very disappointing. I feel like the only thing I am doing is hydrating my skin
to a degree and that’s it, which wouldn’t be bad if this were a body lotion,
but it isn’t, it’s a deo cream. Before opening it, I had some doubts that it
would work well on me and it seems those doubts were well-placed as it is
mostly useless if you tend to sweat a lot. Too bad. Well, at least I donated
money to charity, there’s a silver lining in everything, eh? And now I have a nice metal pan with a turtle on it... which is nice, right? Not a chance that
I’ll be recommending this deo cream.
Rating: 3/10
Would buy again? Absolutely NO
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