Cindy says…I’ve been eying Bliss Spa products and was wondering if you ladies have an opinion on them? They are so expensive! Are they worth the debt?
The Right Brain can barely stop laughing:
Ok, as a rule we strive to maintain scientific objectivity. But when we checked out the Bliss Spa website we laughed so hard we almost spit Diet Coke all over our monitor.
Bliss B.S.
We don’t know about all the products in the Bliss Line, but the one that caught our attention was their Ray Of Hope Slenderizing Sunscreen. What was so funny? We quote from their website:
We’ve preloaded our newest sunscreen with slender spheres™—microscopic molecules that unleash the visually slimming effect of caffeine (and carnitine and centella asiatica) when exposed to the sun. It’s a two-in-one. A tan and tone. A sun and slim. It’s so radical, it almost requalifies tanning as constructive. How’s that for seductive?
Seductive? How’s that for a totally unsupportable claim??? No other reputable company is making this kind of claim. Don’t you think the massive research staffs at P&G and L’Oreal would be all over this kind of product if it really worked? Doesn’t it seem just a tad bit suspicious that this relatively obscure salon brand has technology that no one else in the Free World possesses?
From our vantage point there are two possibilities.
1) Bliss has discovered alien technology that allows them to do things the rest of the beauty industry can’t do.
2) They’re making this up.
Not to be judgmental, but our money is on #2. We haven’t seen any peer reviewed scientific studies that reproducibly show that caffeine products have a visible slimming effect. And on top of that, we’ve never heard of solar-activated slimming. Whew! These guys are bold, we’ll give them that much. Unfortunately, we don’t think they’ve got the technology to back up their brashness.
The Beauty Brains bottom line
At a glance, Bliss Spa scares us because the first product we checked out makes claims that appear to be unsupportable. We don’t want to draw conclusions about the entire line based on looking at just one product, but what we’ve seen doesn’t stack up scientifically. But hey, we’re glad to make friends. If the good people at Bliss send us their claim support data we’d be glad to reconsider our comments. (But in the meantime, we suggest you stay away!)
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I like some Bliss products like their body butters. However, I tried the ingrown pad elimination pads and didn’t work very well.
I have spent some money for sure on Bliss. In fact I want to go to the Bliss spa in NY! I bought the youth as we know it lotion and saw no difference. However, the Bliss sleeping peel serum did really work. My pores shrunk. Downfall is I had to keep using it to keep it up. If you want the Bliss experience try the brand “Soap and Glory”. The owner of Bliss, Marcia Kilgore has created this cheaper line (Soap and Glory) and chances are it is the same “stuff” that is in the Bliss line. They are probably formulated by the same lab/team.
Just gotta chime in, I love Bliss! I don’t use any of their “slimming” line, but their body butters and scrubs are beautifully scented and effective! Yes, they are definitely not a budget line, and I take their “revolutionary” claims with a grain of salt, but for a bit of aromatherapeutic decadence, I adore their products!
I LOVE BLISS FACIAL PRODUCTS & BLISS BODY BUTTERS EXCELLENT!!!!!
To be fair, I’ve loved the hell out of every Bliss product I’ve tried. They also have a lotion that claims to make hair regrow finer/slower, which I thought was stupid BS, but since it was $10 at my local Nordstrom Rack (and there was none of my beloved body butter to be found) I got it. It actually DOES let me go longer between shaving my legs, which is incredibly awesome.
Now, do I believe they make a product that makes you thinner topically? No. But caffiene will tighten up your skin a little (that’s why tea works for eye bags, and de-puffing products usually contain caffiene) so that’s probably what they’re getting at there. They do make a lot of good products, so taking one dumb marketing ploy and using that to write off the whole brand is silly.
i’m going to second Kou. You clearly picked the product with the most moronic claims on it, and one that anyone with any ounce of common sense would know was BS (although i have seen LOTS of products claim that caff decreases cellulite so I don’t know where you’ve been). All the Bliss products that I have tried, the oxygenating mask, the steep clean mask, the eye packs, as well as the body butters – i love. i use them way less often as recommended because YES they are pretty spendy. but i’m impressed and pleased with what i have gotten from them and THANK YOU Dana for the Soap and Glory tip – how that got by me…
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