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 In order to preserve my sanity during the month of July, I envision myself strolling over rolling hillsides in France, rather than locked inside a cubicle farm, staring out forlornly out the window at a beautiful summer day. And one of the essential olfactory components to supporting this fantasy is a really good lavender hand lotion. When I ran out of my standard tube of L'Occitane Hand Cream, I stopped into a CVS on my lunch break and picked up a giant bottle of Curél Natural Healing 24-Hour Daily Moisturizing Lotion. With lavender, chamomile and oatmeal extracts, it could get me through the crucial Monday-after-a-holiday misery. I was a little puzzled by the goopy nature of the lotion, the way it seems a bit watered down, and figured that maybe the L'Occitane was more concentrated, but then I checked into a tube of the L'Occitane from home and realized that hey...it's goopy too. I conducted a side-by-side comparison and lo and behold, the Curél is actually thicker. I am ashamed that I was duped! I totally bought into the pretty little aluminum tube and the purple font on the label. I don't know about
the flaunted 24 hours of moisturizing, but honey child, let me tell you, I
totally cannot tell the difference between the Curél and the L'Occitane. Same
consistency, same moisturizing ability, same delicious scent that will mentally
send you to Provence! The only real difference is that you would get 1 ounce of L'Occitane for ten bucks or you can live the Drugstore Cowgirl dream and get
13 times as much product for less than eight bucks with the Curél. Mon dieu, I'm sold.
With the
little accent mark over the E in Curél, that makes it French,
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I gotta say, Wendy - I was hooked on this the first time I tried after reading this blog (I had a serious L'Occitane fetish till I tried this).
And you know...I think it does moisturize twenty-four hours...I still feel all smooth!!!