True to its name, L’Occitane’s Almond Shower Oil contains emollients like grape seed, sweet almond, and sunflower seed oils, which are rich with vitamins, hydrating linoleic acid, and caprylic/capric triglyceride to replenish your skin.
Unlike many body oils, the Almond Shower Oil is formulated specifically to be used while you’re in the shower, thanks to ingredients like laureth-3, sorbitan oleate, and cocamide MEA.
When I say this moisture magnet leaves my skin soft and supple all day long, I mean it permeates my skin and brings all of that water with it. I’m not being dramatic when I say this. As staff writer Hannah Frye, who’s written about the dos and don’ts of moisturizing your body, told me, “Applying moisturizing products to damp skin is the way to go, both for convenience and function. Some ingredients like hyaluronic acid and glycerin (the latter found in this shower oil) can act like a sponge, drawing water into the skin. This means the more water you have on the surface of your skin to begin with, the more moisture those sponge-like ingredients can absorb.”
And while other moisturizing body washes left behind a sticky film on my skin, the only thing this luxurious shower oil leaves behind (besides soft, dewy skin, of course) is a subtly sweet almond scent. What really sold me, though, was how the formula transforms from a runny oil into a creamy salve the minute I squeeze it into my hands and rub them together.
