Review: L’Occitane Shea Honey Hand Cream

by PJ on Saturday, March 23, 2013

in -L'Occitane, 2013 Spring, bodycare, bodycare - handcare

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For spring 2013, L’Occitane has released a limited-edition Shea Honey bodycare collection featuring a warm-toned honey fragrance. Today I am highlighting one of the items in the collection, the Shea Honey Hand Cream.

Shea Honey Hand Cream (30ml, £8) has virtually the same densely creamy consistency as that of L’Occitane’s popular Shea Butter Hand Cream. (Both contain 20% shea butter.) Some of the main moisturizing ingredients in this product are shea butter, glycerin, cetearyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate, coconut oil, and sunflower seed oil.

The product also contains honey extract, which is an antioxidant and an anti-irritant. (For your reference, the Shea Butter Hand Cream also contains honey extract.)

The product does not contain alcohol or parabens.

The cream feels very emollient on the skin and it is absorbed fairly well. However, even though it doesn’t feel slippery or oily, I occasionally feel that it is not reaching where emolliency is really needed.

I like the warm and comforting honey fragrance in this product. There is also a hint of sharpness very similar to the sharpness from the smell of natural honey, and it prevents the scent from being overly sweet.

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I generally dislike cartoon drawings on beauty products, but I find the bear and the bees on the packaging quite adorable.

L’Occitane’s Shea Honey range also includes Foaming Gel (250ml, £13), Whipped Body Cream (125ml, £16), and Shea Honey Butter (8ml, £7).

(Some ingredient information is from Paula Begoun’s Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary.)

(The product featured in this article is provided by L’Occitane.)

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

Makeup ByMerry Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The packing was really looking good especially that bear nearest to that home. I think a perfect picture representing the real honey in that cream.

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PJ Friday, March 29, 2013

Hi Merry,

I like the packaging as well. The bear does look cute!

Thank you for stopping by again! :)

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Kris D Thursday, March 28, 2013

I normally agree with you about not liking the cartoonish look, but I like this one as well. I guess I am becoming an old softie!

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PJ Friday, March 29, 2013

Hi Kris,

This is definitely one of the few exceptions!

Thank you for posting your comment! :)

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