Johnson's Body Care Melt Away Stress Daily Calming Lotion

Continuing from my previous review on the 24 Hour Lasting Moisture Body Lotion, I'm here to talk to you about another product from the Johnson's Body Care range : the Melt Away Stress Daily Calming Lotion! I know, I know, the product names are so long that they might as well be the product description as well! As mentioned, I've only tried the purple & peach bottles - never tried the whitening stuff, don't intend to!

Overall, the Johnson's Body Care range (from the 2 that I've tried) has pretty good results considering the price that you pay for it. Used to really love it, but either my standards have gone up or the product has degraded. Now I tell people it's good ... if your budget is only *that* much. I really find that if you want crazily, baby-smooth skin, it's better to go for those body butters like Palmer's or Soap & Glory, just to name two that I personally quite like.

Between the 24 Hour Lasting Moisture Body Lotion and the Melt Away Stress Daily Calming Lotion, I prefer the latter! I find that the Melt Away Stress Daily Calming Lotion leaves my skin even softer than the 24 Hour one. I don't know why that should be, because I think the contents should be the *almost* the same? In fact, it's the 24 Hour one that contains shea butter!

One thing that I don't like about the lotion is that although it absorbs quickly enough, it leaves a rather sticky-ish feeling if you use too much of it. It's as if the skin is saying, "Yup, I've absorbed enough for now - the rest won't be absorbed and it's just going to lie stickily on your thighs now." Very disconcerting. -_-

I also prefer the Melt Away Stress scent compared to the 24 Hour one. The former is more of a comforting, mature scent, while the 24 Hour one is the generic floral scent that I mentioned. Well, it makes sense that the Melt Away Stress lotion should smell better as it claims to come with AROMASOOTHE that helps melt away daily tension & promote better rest at night. Of course, you can feel free to use this lotion whenever you want, and not just at night. ;)

Wondering what is AROMASOOTHE? It is basically chamomile, hints of lavender and moonflower. Johnson's advises you to breathe in deeply while you are massaging this into your skin in order to truly relax with their product. I do like the scent, but I don't know how "relaxing" it is... I wore it before I went for dinner with my boyfriend and he said that I was driving with full-on road rage. Maybe it's because I was hungry and the hunger pangs overrode whatever good the "melt away stress" lotion did..

Moonflower

Chamomile

Lavendar

((Just looking at the flowers already make me feel soothed!)

Truly a "not bad" nod from me, will repurchase, but maybe a smaller bottle. But won't be repurchasing in the near future as I have a *lot* of other stuff to try and review.