Mountain Ocean Coconut Skin Trip Moisturizer (8 oz.)

This is one of those cult beauty products you read about all the time on beauty blogs. Or, more specifically, white beauty blogs, lesbihonest lol. Two or three years ago I was all about the white beauty blogs for what reason I cannot tell you. The white girls just...have different needs than the black chicks. You can still find some good advice/product recs, but I've noticed they tend to be into a lot of stuff that is verrrrrrrry Caucasian, and Skin Trip, IMO, is def one of those products. 

I purchased this because all those yts were raving about it. It was so amazing and coconutty blah blah bah. This little ass 8 ounce bottle cost about ten dollars, which was not OBSCENE, but...there are like 32 oz bottes of lotion at Walmart that cost like four bux and work just as well. I'm a cheap bitch, so $4 for 32oz > $10 for 8oz. If this bottle of Skin Trip had like UHMAZING benefits, it'd be one thing, but it does not. It's just a simple bottle of lotion with fairly typical ingredients. The first ingredient listed is Purified Water, which is cool, and the next three are ccoonut oil, aloe leaf, and some sort of hybrid safflower oil which all sounds pretty good but then then you start getting shit like sorbitol, stearic acid, longasschemicalname, etc etc and it basically is just a bottle of Queen Helene with some coconut in it. 

If you REALLY love that fake-beachy sort of coconut scent (which I do) this is the product for you. If you are ONLY seeking a really good coconutty scent. It smells so good! But...for me, someone with thick AND dry skin, no dice. I need somethinng thicker with some ahas or...lanolin is one of the first ingredients or something. I need expensive ass Cerave. I am willing to pay extra for a lotion that actually DOES SOMETHING, not for a lotion that just smells good. I've had this bottle for months, though, and have been using it as a hand lotion and that has satisfied my need to smell it quite well. Prob will not buy again, though. Maybe if they gave me like 16 oz for 10? Then maybe. 8 oz for $10-11 is not worth it for something pretty regular that has almost no benefits.