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Hello from Taiwan!

If you have been following my tweets/ Facebook, you’d know I am off for a vacation in Taiwan I brought my laptop with me since I’ll be here for a while, what’s better entertainment than the laptop should I decide not to go out for a day or two? The weather’s here a little mad, cold yet hot at the same time!

Here’s a short review for something which I randomly picked up at Cosmed (康是美) and I thought I’d share with you whilst I am here.

My Beauty Diary Blooming Garden Lemon & Verbena Body Lotion

Picture has been edited due to the yellow lighting in the hotel room, and there’s no decent sunlight for the past few days, and I doubt I’ll be seeing any sunshine right till the day I leave. It’s winter after all

Back to this body lotion.

My Beauty Diary started off with their sheet mask and has received really good reviews for them. Then they branched out and introduced skincare products and now, body care products. I think it’s a newly launched range specially for this winter if I am not mistaken. Lucky me to chanced upon this body lotion on a quick trip to Cosmed and got it for NT99 (~RM10).

They have 3 variants, Cassis & Rose and the other one Peach & Apple Blossom. I picked up Lemon & Verbena just because I love it’s sunny yellow packaging and the scent sound very refreshing. It feels more summery than winter!

Cute packaging aside, it’s the content that counts. Flip it open, you get a soft whiff of the scent. It’s lemon alright, but it’s the kind of lemony scent that usually comes from dish washing liquid. Luckily it’s not very strongly scented, and you need to really put your nose close to dispenser to sniff it.Does it dissipate fast? I’ll tell you that in a bit.

It’s very easy to spread and absorbs easily. I use large amounts of it and there’s no greasiness. It might be due to the cold weather here, that my skin is drier than normal. So far my skin hasn’t give me any problems with drying or anything, so it’s safe to say this lotion is doing it’s job. I can’t say if this will work as well once I am back to Malaysia though, as the weather is rather different

About the scent, though it does smell like as though I slap on dish washing liquid all over myself, but after 5 to 10 minutes, the scent smells more like a soft floral scent, I’m not sure if it’s the verbena (don’t own any scent of it so can’t say), but it’s light and refreshing and the floral scent is really comforting. Reminds of me the cool sunny days we have in Malaysia. The scent lasted a good 4 to 5 hours I think. Maybe because I was wrapping myself up in thick clothing? Not that I mind hehe.

It’s pretty travel friendly too, at 100ml. I am suspecting I’ll be finishing this off by the time I leave Taiwan. Hoho. I love sizes like this as I can try out more items and never need to worry of “hitting pan”. Hehe. I guess you know what I mean.

Overall, at approximately RM10 a pop, I think the body lotion is quite good for it’s value. Even if you don’t like it, chucking it aside/ throwing it out doesn’t hurt as much, right?

Repurchasing? Not sure yet, I still have time to think!