Fresh: Sugar Acai Body Scrub

Sugar Acai Body Scrub is a body scrub by the well-known skin care line: Fresh. It contains 6.8 fl oz of product, and at the time of this review, costs $48.

Fresh: Sugar Acai Body Scrub - Description

How to Use It:

While Fresh doesn't give specific guidelines on how often you should us Sugar Acai Body Scrub, typically we recommend exfoliating three times a week. Rub on your body in circular motions, concentrating on the dry areas of your body. Not recommended for your face.

Active Ingredients:

Fresh's Sugar Acai Body Scrub uses two processes of exfoliation: scrubby sugar to manually exfoliate plus bilberry, orange, and lemon extracts to sweep dead skin away.

It also contains Acai Oil, which is an antioxidant and other oils and butters to moisturize.

Our Description:

Fresh: Sugar Acai Body Scrub is a light brown colored, medium thick cream. Little pieces of sugar and Acai pulp are visible immediately. The scent is super fresh and light - soft, almost. Not too strong; completely enjoyable.

Fresh: Sugar Acai Body Scrub - Our Review

What we Loved:

The scent is amazing. True to Fresh's name, the scent of this product is fresh. It's fruity and sweet. Certainly no one could find anything bad to say about the scent.

We also loved that the product was in a tube. Often, body scrubs are in tubs, and no only it is a pain to get the scrub out of the tub, it's not very sanitary either.

The scrub was easy to squeeze out and snap shut.

We loved that this product spread around our skin with such ease, and left our skin with a hint of moisture after using it.

What We Didn't Love:

We were rather let down on Sugar Acai Body Scrub's ability to exfoliate. While it appears at first glance that there are loads of little scrubby particles in this scrub, once you rub it onto your skin, you realize there really isn't enough to give you a though exfoliation.

Yes, there are fruit extracts which also exfoliate, just like in Kate Somerville's ExfoliKate, (read review), these ingredients must be left on for some time to get the full benefits. (Something that Fresh doesn't specifically state.)

And, just like we stated in Kate Somerville's review, it's just too hard to keep a product on your skin in the shower for 2 minutes without it getting washed off.

We weren't alone in our thinking, either. While there weren't tons of reviews, several reviews on Sephora's site stated that there weren't enough granules to exfoliate enough. We agree.

Fresh: Sugar Acai Body Scrub - Final Thoughts

There are good things here, good ingredients, great smells, and a slightly moisturized feeling at the end, but the reality is, it's a body exfoliator. In our opinion, you could do better with your $50.

And if you're dying to try a Fresh body scrub, we'd stick with their Brown Sugar Body Scrub, which gets very high reviews.