Soap & Glory Sugar Crush items
First picture, left to right: Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub, Sugar Crush Energy Boosting Fresh & Foamy Body Wash
Second picture, left to right: Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Energy Boosting Fresh & Foamy Body Wash, open container of Sugar Crush Body Scrub
Soap & Glory’s new Sugar Crush line “mixes mouth-watering kaffir limes, sparkling lemons, sweet vanilla musk and coconut oil,” and both its Energy Boosting Fresh & Foamy Body Wash and Body Scrub are supposed to be “energizing.” The Energy Boosting Fresh & Foamy Body Wash is white and milky, with a slightly runny consistency, and the Body Scrub is light brown with white and black exfoliating bits, with a very thick consistency.
Let’s start with the Body Wash, which is supposed “to cool and refresh,” with a “super creamy … moisture-boosting base” and “radiance-boosting kiwi water juice.” The body wash itself is white and with a milky consistency, and takes a bit of work to get “foamy,” like the product name claims. Although it’s a big bottle, I needed about five or six pumps to work up enough for my whole body (to be fair, the description does suggest “a good handful” for each use), and needed a good amount of rubbing to get the bubbles going. The scent is also a bit off from the description—it doesn’t smell “super fresh” to me, but only faintly of limes and lemons; it’s far more sugary, with strong vanilla notes. I didn’t get any coconut at all. The scent doesn’t last outside of the shower, and overall, I found the scent to skew a little young.
Because it’s so sugary, it will catch your attention in the shower, but I don’t know if it’s necessarily “energy boosting,” and I didn’t get a strong moisturizing sense from using it for a couple of weeks. Overall, it’s not a bad product, but I don’t think it matches its description. “Sugar crush” is accurate, but the claims of citrus, a refreshing sensation, and moisture—not so much.
I think the Body Scrub is far better, though. It also claims to smell like “freshly squeezed sweet lime, sparkling lemons, sweet vanilla musk and almond oil,” and the exfoliant is made of “sea salt, smashed brown sugar, glycerin and macadamia oils.” Supposedly “energizing, exhilarating, amazing,” Sugar Crush has the ability to “leave your skin feeling smooth, supple, and sexy” and is recommended for use once, twice, or three times weekly. The texture is very thick and sticky—because I’m still in Thanksgiving-mode, it reminds me a lot of pecan pie filling—but spreads well and isn’t too gloopy.
Strangely, I think the Body Scrub has a really great citrus fragrance, very heavily like lime and lemons, and I don’t get any vanilla or almond; the exfoliating fragments are also a good size, not too rough but still effective. The scrub turns milky white and melts away when in direct contact with water, and the smell, like the Body Wash, doesn’t last after the shower. Overall, though, I thought the Body Scrub smelled better, worked better, and was generally more in line with its description than the Sugar Crush Body Wash; it’s a more mature version of the Body Wash, which felt juvenile to me.
What are my final thoughts? Well, “Sugar Crush” is apt, somewhat; the Body Wash is a very young smell, whereas the Body Scrub is undeniably more sophisticated. I don’t think the Body Wash does everything it promises—it was so-so to me—but I really liked the Body Scrub, and found it more accurate to its product description. If you grab one thing from the Soap & Glory Sugar Crush line, make it the Body Scrub.
VERDICT: C for Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Wash; A- for Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub.
AVAILABILITY: $16 for 16.2 fl oz. of Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Wash, at Sephora.com and Sephora stores; $20 for 10.1 fl oz. of Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub, at Sephora.com and Sephora stores.
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Photos by Roxana Hadadi.
In middle school, Roxana Hadadi was a cosmetics-scorning tomboy; in high school, a glitter eye shadow- and black nail polish-loving trend kid; in college, obsessively committed to dying her hair unruly colors that upset her mom. Now a bit older and a bit more mature, she’s trying to figure out what hair, body and cosmetics products will work for her, you and your family in About Face, Chesapeake Family’s new beauty blog — and she’ll leave the sparkle makeup and neon highlights in the past. Roxana also writes movie reviews for Chesapeake Family’s Popcorn Parents blog.
