The products: The Body Shop Drops of Youth Gentle Foaming Wash and Eye Concentrate

It’s hard to impress me with a foam. I come from the generation that grew up on mousses: plush, VOC-ridden mounds of product coming out of chilly metal containers with a satisfying hiss. But The Body Shop Drops of Youth collection surprised me with their Gentle Foaming Wash – and then topped it off with the equally-satisfying Drops of Youth Eye Concentrate.

The Body Shop Drops of Youth Eye Concentrate ($20.43 USD/$20.40 CAD)

I didn’t find the Drops of Youth Eye Concentrate to be super effective, so let’s start there. I rarely find that eye products really help – but I use them anyways, because I’ll take anything I can get.

My dark circles have been insanely pronounced ever since I had my tonsils removed, and there isn’t anything that makes them budge. So, when I’m on the hunt for an eye product, I look for something like this instead. The Body Shop Eye Concentrate is 100% vegan and is designed to de-puff, not de-pigment.

And it’s good at its job. It doesn’t make a crazy difference, but it’s soothing to put on. The rollerball applicator is great, and I love the push-down mechanism to release product. When I feel my eyes getting puffy (usually in the early spring, or if I’ve been eating too much sodium), I add this back into my routine, and it seems to help.

The Body Shop Drops of Youth Gentle Foaming Wash ($20 USD/$21 CAD)

I’m skipping the “the verdict” section of this post, because this is what you need to know: The Body Shop Drops of Youth Gentle Foaming Wash (a mouthful!) is a must-have.

I’ve tried foaming cleansers before. I’ve used ones from Marcelle, Jurlique, Nuxe… over the years, I’ve tried hundreds of dollars worth of foaming cleansers, and none of them have left my skin feeling half as smooth or moisturized as this one.

This Gentle Foaming Wash is plush. It’s designed to be massaged onto dry skin and rinsed off with water, and the entire process just feels so good. It feels like one of those really toxic, chemical-laden mousses of our childhoods; the ones that could only have gotten so delightfully smooth and full and luscious with the help of ozone-depleting chemicals.

But instead, it’s 100% vegan. It’s cruelty-free. It’s enriched with Italian edelweiss, criste marine and sea holly from the coast of Brittany, and fair trade organic babassu oil from Brazil. And it is absolutely divine.