Product Review: Soap & Glory Flake Away Body Scrub

Sugar scrubs are a poisoned chalice - they're smashing at eradicating flakiness but can sometimes irritate delicate skin. If you suffer from eczema or any conditions that make your skin itchy or sore, please please do not use any sort of sugar scrub on your legs or anywhere else on your body. Body polishes are pretty intense exfoliants and often contain sea-salt, which can really aggravate sensitive skin, especially when it's broken.

Disclaimers aside, Soap & Glory's cult favourite Flake Away Body Scrub is a pretty good bet if you're looking for something sweet to descale your manky legs with.

Packaging
Flake Away comes in a generously proportioned pink tub with Soap & Glory's signature packaging. These prods make fabulous gifts; last Christmas Boots were actually giving away cute S&G gift bags with every purchase. I do find that S&G stuff always last a decent amount of time too; you can expect this to last between four and eight months depending on how often you need to deflake!

Soap & Glory Flake Away Body Scrub, £6.64 from Boots

Application
Flake Away comes with the highly gratifying direction to use in 'handfuls'. In a world where we pay a premium for 15ml of 'miracle' product with instructions to 'use sparingly', it's fab to find something that we're invited to slather upon ourselves with gusto. Flake Away has a fantastically gritty texture, almost like luxuriously-fragranced sand; you can really feel it  buffing away your dry skin. It also smells of S&G's delicious and distinctive bergamot-infused fragrance, which is sweet and feminine but not overpowering.

As well as tonnes of exfoliating sugar and sea-salt, Flake Away also contains skin-loving shea butter and sweet almond oil, which helps to moisturise your skin as it removes the dead cells to reveal the smooth, new skin underneath. Don't think you don't need to give your legs a good going-over with your favourite moisturiser afterwards though; the exfoliation process is still very drying (and potentially damaging) to sensitive skin.


Performance
Used before shaving, Flake Away leaves skin smooth and smelling absolutely divine. Do not make the mistake I absent-mindedly made by applying after shaving; those tiny invisible nicks are a whole lot bigger when you get sea salt burning inside them. I found the effect of this product to be long-lasting, especially when  enhanced with a luxurious body moisturiser like No7 Pampering Dry Oil Body Spray.

Although S&G have dried to make this product as non-drying as possible, it's important to make sure you drench your hands in moisturiser after using them to apply Flake Away (or any other body scrub!)


The Bottom Line
Flake Away is an effective, great-value body polish with added bonus points for its adorable, tongue-in-cheek packaging. The only downside is that it does tend to get absolutely bloody everywhere; my tub always looks like an oversized margarita glass after it's drained because it's all sugary around the edge. Aside from the extra 90 seconds of bath-cleaning time though, Flake Away is pretty fantastic.

Recommended for: those looking for a great-value scrub to smooth scaly legs.

Rating: 9.0/10


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