I was gifted this ‘Exclusive Edition’ Chocomania Gift Set from The Body Shop for my birthday by my lovely best friend.  My birthday is on Valentine’s Day so the heart shaped, chocolate box looking packaging seemed very appropriate, and it definitely appears rather luxurious from the outside!

Inside the Chocomania tin there are four decently sized products:

  • Chocomania Body Butter – 50ml
  • Chocomania Body Scrub – 50ml
  • Chocomania Shower Cream – 60ml
  • Chocomania Lip Butter – 10ml

Unlike a lot of chocolate bath and body products, these actually smell quite nice!  I usually find that chocolate scented toiletries smell quite sickly, and nothing at all like chocolate, but the Chocomania range has quite a rich sweet scent, a bit like chocolate pudding, and is far more pleasing to the nose than most.

I used each of the Chocomania products from the set this morning, and will now let you know my thoughts about them individually, in the order that I used them.

Shower Cream

The Chocomania shower cream is the most lightly scented product in the set.  It is silky smooth and lathers up well – I didn’t need to use much of it at all to wash my whole body.  The scent was only very faint on my skin after use, and soon faded, but once it was layered with the other products that didn’t matter too much.

Body Scrub

Others have said this product looks like the chocolate pudding it smells like, but I’m not too convinced.  My initial reaction when I opened this was that it looked like something else!  (I’m sure you can guess what).  Ignoring what I think it looks like, this has the strongest chocolate scent of all the Chocomania products and it really does smell good enough to eat.  I used this on my upper arms which tend to get fairly dry.  The exfoliation this provides is delicate, but excellent – my arms felt wonderfully soft after using it.  Without a doubt, this is my favourite of the Chocomania products.

Body Butter

I have always loved The Body Shop’s body butters and I think this is a nice addition to their range of butters.  It has a deep, cocoa scent and, once again, a little goes a very long way.  Layered over the shower gel and body scrub, the scent is still lingering on my skin and is absolutely lovely.  My skin feels softened without being left greasy.  The body butter claims to provide ’48h Feel Good Hydration’ – a very big claim I have to say.  Since I have a shower every morning, I doubt I’ll be able to tell whether this lasts for 48 hours, but it is very rich so I guess it could.

Lip Butter

The Chocomania Lip Butter is my least favourite product in the set.  It smells a bit like Smarties, which is nice, but the texture isn’t that pleasant.  I found the lip butter to be quite greasy on my lips, which didn’t feel very nice.  After a while, some of this greasiness was no longer there, but in the end I rubbed it off and replaced it with my usual lip balm.

Overall I am very happy with the Chocomania Gift Set – the products smell gorgeously decadent and most of them do their job, and they do it well.  If you want to try the Chocomania range, grab it whilst you can because I don’t think it will be around forever, seeing as it’s an ‘exclusive edition’!

Naomi x