Sicilian Blood Orange creamy soap

I came back from another trip with nice hotel soap. The soap rocks, the shampoo sucks. It’s Tarocco “Sicilian Red Orange Extracts Face & Body Cleanser” with olive oil. They really do it right, as it’s creamy lathery textured soap, not too harsh, nicely moisturizing. The orange smell is perfect, very orangey with a hint of candy to it, without being cloying.

I’m a big fan of stuff with olive oil in it. Food or bath, either way.

Hat tip to the “fancy” end of things to the point of mockability, as the packaging describes it as “extracts of Sicilian Red (Blood) Oranges which are rich in Vitamin C and other powerful antioxidants”. Right, just sort of imply that it’s nutritious and will like prevent me from getting hair cancer or whatever it is antioxidants are supposed to do. Um whatever! Oh also, note how the locality of the Red (Blood) Oranges is all important for fanciness. It’s not enough to say Oranges or even Blood Oranges, or even Italian Oranges, we have to get all specific about how they’re Sicilian because the more specific the location the more exotically fancy and rare the product sounds. Hilarious!

The shampoo, though! It has the same nice smell, so I had high hopes. But the effect of it is way too harsh and nasty. I might as well have doused my hair in paint thinner. It dried like a head full of wonky purple straw.

Based on the soap, I am curious to try the orange and clove hand lotion:

This lotion has shea butter in it which tends to be a bit greasy, but nice. In other words nice for hands but not necessarily for faces. Orange + clove is a great combination. I always wonder why not just go all out and smell like an apple pie?

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