Lavera - Volumen & Kraft (Volume & Power)  - Shampoo

This is a orange and green tea scented shampoo which smells amazing! 
This wonderful fragrance is from organic orange oil and green tea extract.

It is silicon, parabene, phthalate, microplastic, and mineral oil free. 
It is also vegan.

It cleans well and lathers well.
This is an easy favourite for me!


Price: 4/5 ($3.18 for 250mL)
Scent: 5/5
Effectiveness: 5/5

Tea Blossoms - Green Strawberry

This is a green tea with rose, sunflower, orange blossom, raspberry flavour, and strawberry flavour.

It is definitely a scent, not a taste with the strawberry part. 
The tea itself is kind of bitter for a green tea.

Thanks for sending this to me Miss Buttons! :)

Price: 3/5 ($13.50 for 45 tea bags)
Rating: 1/5

King's Crown - Grüner Tee (Green Tea) - Mango-Kokos (Mango-Coconut)

This is a flavoured green tea where the flavour is actually a taste not a smell.

It's a fun tropical twist on normal green tea.

I don't have a photo because I drank it all.

Price: 5/5 ($1.36 for 20 bags)
Rating: 5/5
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Masquerade! - Real Nature - Green Tea

This has a nice amount of serum, a nice thick mask, and a freshly-brewed green tea scent.

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Teatox - Fresh Focus - Organic Green Tea with Ginseng

I got this for my birthday! (Thanks PB's parents!)

This is a green tea with orange peel, ginger root, applemint, rosemary, eucalyptus, guraná, and ginseng.

It is a medium, warm, yellow-brown colour when brewed.

The smell is a little spicy. It tastes like green tea, faintly of eucalyptus, and a little bitter.
But it is very nice!

Because of the guraná, best to keep this as a morning tea.

Price: 1/5 ($15.80 for 70g)
Rating: 5/5

Tea Advent Calendar - Day 6 - China Chun Mee

Happy St Nicolas Day!

Chun Mee is reportedly more acidic and less sweet than other green tea, so this should be interesting. It smells like it is a bit harsher than other green tea I have sniffed. 

It has a very strong taste and almost tastes like a lapsang souchong.
It has a metallic aftertaste (like iron).

I regret giving PB (who is new to tea) some to try.

Rating: 0.5/5

The Body Shop - Fuji Green Tea - Body Wash - Shower Gel

This cleans well, lathers nicely, and is non-irritating.
The scent is nice; green tea, pepper, and aloe vera.
However, the scent doesn't linger on the skin.

It also tastes awful.

Price: 4/5 ($10.95 for 250mL)
Scent: 4/5
Effectiveness: 5/5

Elemis - Daily Moisture Boost - Time for Men

This is a lightweight moisturiser that smells like green tea.
It is a product 'for men' and I could see the scent being considered unisex.

It contains Green Tamanu oil, Cactus Cerus flower, citrus oils (doubt it), chestnut, and bamboo.

The packaging says "Time for Men"... which does NOT make me think of Elemis!

Once on, it seems to leave a bit of a sticky residue on the skin (which neither sex wants).

Price: 2/5 ($69.00 for 50mL)
Scent: 4/5
Effectiveness: 2/5

The Body Shop - Fuji Green Tea - Body Lotion

First, love the green tint to the (travel size) bottle!

This is a medium viscosity lotion than absorbs into the skin quickly.

It smells like green tea leaves blended with aloe vera, and is less peppery than the body butter counter part.

Price: 4/5 ($17.95 for 250mL)
Scent: 4/5
Effectiveness: 4.5/5

Lacura Essentials - Detox Me - Sculpting Overnight - Body Mask

Nope, this isn't a repeat post, this is the pairing body mask to the lotion mentioned in the last post.

This is a body mask, which suggests you leave it on your body overnight (implying you wash it off in the morning).
Wouldn't it get all over your sheets? 
I'm not about that life! I put it on half a hour before a shower.

It claims to have the same 'silhouette-refining complex' as the lotion, but this is a nonsense idea in itself.
I felt no tightening or toning.
It also contains acai berry, goji berry, blueberry and green tea.

Interesting idea but ultimately rubbish.

Price: 4/5 (~$7 for 200mL)
Scent: 1/5 (some sort of buttery scent)
Effectiveness: 1/5

Same Product, Different Scent: The Body Shop - Fuji Green Tea Body Butter

This one is nice and thick, a great formula.

The scent is fresh and I would almost call it a mix of black pepper and aloe vera, it doesn't smell like green tea to me. But it's pleasant anyway.

Masquerade! - Montagne Jeunesse - Lemon Zest Peel Off - Detox & Pore Cleansing Masque

the bottom one

This is a bit different to the masks I usually review, in that it isn't a sheet mask, but a goo that dries on your face, then you peel it off.
This one has a lovely lemon scent with lemon, aloe vera, green tea, ginseng, evening primrose, ginger, seaweed and Dead Sea salt.
My only issue with this is I wish the goo was opaque (but that is hardly a big deal).
These are so much fun, like peeling dried glue off your hand! <3

Pure Essense - Hydrating Shampoo - Green Tea

This was a sample I got from a hotel room, so I guess this will help you decide if you want to use/take this hotel sample, should you encounter it...

The scent is pleasant enough, kind to green tea with generic soap smell.

The lather was just ok and the cleaning ability seems a bit limited by it being a 'hydrating shampoo' (possibly due to the moisturising elements leaving a bit of residue).

'I need a good shampoo' Solution:

Effective, cheap and cheerful!

Price: 5/5 (free!)

Scent: 2/5

Effectiveness: 2/5