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There’s lots of products consumers can buy to add into their bath these days. Bath soaks, body washes, bath truffles, bath bombs…the list goes on and on. But what’s available for the shower? Of course, you can grab the typical shower gels if you want to clean and wash your body. But is there anything else that’s a bit different to this norm? Shower steamers! This is a product that’s been available for a few years, and can be bought from Primark. I picked up their Elderflower Shower Steamer from my local store for £1.50 a few months ago.
Why did I buy this?
I like the idea of shower steamers. Showers are taken just as much as baths in my household so it’s a nice product to use once in awhile. While looking at Primark’s bath bombs and bubble bars, I saw this and I was curious to find out how well this performed. For £1.50 it was definitely worth a try so I bought it.
What is a shower steamer?
A shower steamer looks and acts similarly to a bath bomb. You pop it on the floor of your shower/bath tub, and as the water and heat from the shower react to it it releases fragrance. Not for use on the body but should provide a lovely aroma while you’re in the shower.
Packaging
A Summery coloured flat squared cardboard box in shades of yellow, green and blue. An open window on the front shows you what’s inside.
How does this look?
Primark’s shower steamer is square, flat and quite chunky in look. Decent size of over 0.5 inches in depth and 3 inches across. Although square, you can see this is segmented into two triangles and this is where you break half of it off to use. The colouring I thought was promising till I took it out of the box. On the front there are splashes of yellow, green and blue but mostly surrounded by a white base. Turn this over and it’s completely white. I thought it would be more colourful and eye catching overall.
Fragrance
All I could smell was a chalkiness to this shower steamer when I took it out of the box. Is there another fragrance? It’s not totally void of a scent but whatever it is it’s not describable or strong. Even when not in use I would hope this shower steamer would reek of a scent. But nothing special scent wise came out of it.
In the shower
I put half of this on the bottom of my bath tub while I had my early morning shower before work. And what did I get? Nothing! No waft of fragrance. I was hoping for something to whack me in the face to wake me up, but nothing. So I moved the shower steamer around to make sure some of the water from the shower hit it. All I could see was it getting smaller as it disintegrated but saw no colour or smelt any fragrance. I picked up what was left and gave it a sniff, and I could smell the tiniest hint of fragrance but honestly it was so faint and not even worth mentioning.
Recommended?
No! This shower steamer was poor. All it needed to do was provide fragrance which it failed big time. Whatever you think elderflower will smell like it doesn’t conjure up the idea of a strong scent. But regardless, there NEEDS to be a scent with a product like this and there wasn’t. The shape was good, the look could have been a bit little more colourful but the packaging was fine. But the lack of fragrance makes this something I would bypass in my local Primark store never to repeat purchase again!