Review: body butter bar November 13, 2011

It isn’t food, but it is vegan…

When we moved to Scranton this summer, we were pretty excited that we would be living about 5 minutes from a vegan restaurant (the Eden-a Cafe), but what we didn’t know then is that two doors down from the restaurant was a vegan soap shop. The Fanciful Fox is owned by a mother & daughter who are always super nice when I’ve gone in – which is awesome because sometimes, when their (cute) dog is there my son gets a bit too excited (he loves dogs) and won’t stop trying to pet it. I also think they’re super nice because when dreamgeek was visiting me this summer, he asked them if they were on team birkinstock and they were cool about it. Basically I want them to be my Scranton friends…Anyway…

We went in the other day because my kids’ skin needs to lots of moisturizing, especially in winter, and I had been buying them hair stuff and lotion from a (non-vegan) place that’s based out of Baltimore (and really, is awesome for their hair – it’s Oyin, they have some vegan stuff – if you need good hair stuffs for African American hair, I can’t recommend them enough), and I thought maybe buying local would be good. I’ve really only tried their glittery lipgloss and loved it, so I was hoping they’d have something good for the babies’ skin. I was right.

I picked up this body butter bar, which is actually what I was hoping they’d have. It’s a solid bar, and when you rub it on your skin it melts and moisturizes. I tried it on myself and the babies. I found that on me, my skin stayed really moisturized all day and overnight. On the babies, usually lotions will leave them ashy again the next morning – with this, they weren’t ashy in this morning, which is awesome. (I put more on them anyway,though)

This particular bar I got had a fairly strong scent when I opened the package and first put it on, but it lightened up fairly quickly (which I liked). As a disclaimer, I like scents that are fruity, vanilla or honey – so I guess this means I like for my children to smell like baked goods. This bar didn’t smell like a baked good, but it had an earthy scent that was kind of nice. I didn’t think to smell it at the store, which is weird as I normal do that.

So, yes, I would totally buy this again. We’re really happy with it. You should also know that if you know me in real life and come visit that Fanciful Fox is where I take anyone who visits (except my mom, because she wasn’t interested in either the vegan restaurant or the soap place, she missed out).