The Bottom Line: Avon lists the Skin so Soft fragrance as woodsy, not sure just what that might be but it is distinctive and one that I like very much.
Years ago our ‘Avon lady’ told us that a little Avon Skin-So-Soft goes a long way and Avon Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil works best on damp skin. I continue to use Skin so Soft in moderation when I spray a little on my skin after showering. I enjoy the damp smooth feel, and the pleasant aroma as I sip a cup of coffee while working puzzle books late into the night. I particularly like to use Avon Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil Spray; the size of the bottle and the spray are both super convenient.
As I do with all ‘beauty products’ and nearly everything else I buy and use; I read the Ingredients: the habit began years ago because child #2 was/is super allergic to many things and suffered much from asthma. Old habits are hard to break. Skin-So-Soft Original Bath Oil Spray ingredients include: BHT, daucus carota sativa seed oil, dicaryl adipate, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, fragrance, isopropyl palmitate, mineral oil. I’m not sure that I know what each ingredient is or just what it does, but I do like having it written down for me.
From the time when I was a teenager I have used Avon products. I particularly like Avon Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil. Avon’s assertion that using Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil will keep skin moisturized with the softening, smoothing benefits of "Skin-So-Soft" in a weightless formulation has proven accurate for me. The Skin so Soft is weightless and it does keep my skin nice and smooth, the moisturizing effect is particularly important now that I enter the aging/drying stage of life.
When my kids were tots I often put a little Avon Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil in their bath water. I liked the scent on their skin too, however the tub can become slippery if too much is used. One major drawback; Skin-So-Soft does leave a ring that needs a bit of extra pressure to wipe it away.
Years ago many of us dedicated Skin so Soft users noticed that the Skin so Soft bath oil appeared to put a stop to ticks, and other annoying little varmints on our skin even after a walk through lawn or pasture. I am pleased that Skin so Soft continues to keep the varmints away even today. During flea and tick season I use a little on Guye, the dachshund. The spray bottle makes it easy to put the oil on Guye. I like to carry a bottle along when we sit outside on the patio of an evening. Mosquitos buzz, but they don’t land. Avon made no claim during years past, and I have heard none made recently regarding the fact that Skin so Soft bath oil is apparently a great restraining agent for ticks or other pests, however I believe it does and use Skin so Soft profusely during summer. I have used Avon Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil Spray for years now, and will continue to keep my skin soft as well as to repel little varmints by using the bath oil.
Friends and I noticed and often discussed with humor; that because so many of us were buying Skin-So-Soft as an insect repellant during varmint season, along with, a leading ‘bug spray’ manufacturer claim that Avon does not do what we saw it was doing, i.e. stop varmints in their tracks; two things happened at about the same time. The well known insect repellant company began marketing their insect spray in a bottle that looks very much like the Avon Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil Spray bottle and Avon began marketing a bonafide insect repellant.
I’m pleased that Avon offers a money back guarantee. I have not had to use the guarantee many times over the years and never for Skin so Soft products but on the rare occasion that I did return an item the guarantee has always been honored with no problem. If you should find you are not 100% satisfied with a product, Avon guarantees return for a full refund of purchase price, with no questions asked. Today, when employment is high, corporations are moving jobs and manufacturing out of the country I really look for the Made in the USA on products. Avon Products, Incorporated address is New York City, N.Y. 10020. I like that.
Both my sister and I have sold Avon. I sold twice mainly as a way to meet some of the folks living nearby after moving to a new town. I didn’t stay with it as long as sister did. I did enjoy the time I spent as the door to door Avon Lady. And, it did prove to be a painless way to get acquainted, and to meet parents of the children I taught in a different setting than ‘conference’ or classroom.
Today I still teach, however I now have an Avon Lady. Maria is a gal who also comes from the San Joaquin Valley, California, has her own Mexican Restaurant and sells Avon on the side. Can’t get better than that. Husband and I both like Mexican Food, can’t be raised in California without developing a liking for it I don’t think. And Maria and I share common memories of the town where I went to college. Avon serves to break down barriers and bring commonality to relationships. I like that tool.
Avon Skin So Soft Bath Oil is offered in a variety of sizes including the 5 ounce spray bottle for $6. Larger bottles of the bath oil are more economical. I like to watch for sales. Skin So Soft in the larger bottles is frequently offered at a nice savings. I emptied my spray bottle and I kept it; another California thing, we recycle darn near everything it seems. Now I buy large bottles of Skin so Soft and pour into the small spray bottle. The larger bottle has always been a tad difficult for me to use; my hands are small and now that they are small and gnarly the smaller bottle is better for me. I do like the spray rather than trying to pour or splash the oil.
Avon lists the Skin so Soft fragrance as woodsy, while I’m not sure I would call it woodsy, Skin So Soft has a pleasant, distinctive scent that is one that I like very much.
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