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Swedish Dream Sea Salt Soap and Hand Creme ~ fragranced body product review

Posted by Jessica on 2 June 2016 17 Comments

Kalastyle Swedish Dream Sea Salt

Last week I reviewed Oriza L. Legrand's Villa Lympia, a seashore-themed perfume with Belle Epoque-styled packaging. This week I'm continuing my summertime theme with Kalastyle's Swedish Dream Sea Salt Soap and Hand Creme, two body products featuring a "classic sea salt scent" and some very jaunty packaging of their own, with motifs of anchors and sailboats.

I've been using the Sea Salt Soap as a hand soap at the bathroom sink, but it would also be a fun treat in the shower and is even recommended as a shave soap. It's a chunky circular bar that gives off generous creamy lather and an a cheer-inducing scent — an aroma that really does evoke the salty breeze at the beach, with its mineral tang and its briny hints of seaweed and driftwood. There's also a hint of something lemon-y, and this combination reminds me of the fragrance blend in Caldrea's Sea Salt Neroli line. (Speaking of which, I need to restock!) The matching Sea Salt Hand Creme is similarly well-scented and leaves a lingering fragrance on skin; it's also thicker and more nourishing than I expected. It's always a nice surprise when impulse-purchase body products turn out to offer high quality formulas as well as appealing fragrances. 

If you're visiting any family or friends this summer, perhaps even at their beach house, a set of Swedish Dream Sea Salt products would be a perfect gift for your hosts. Of course, you can always just indulge yourself, too. I've been using Sea Salt Soap and Hand Creme before spritzing on my favorite beach-air perfumes like Creative Universe Mare and Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt for a virtual "walk on the beach," and this layering effect gives me a quick mental vacation from my urban surroundings.

Swedish Dream Sea Salt Soap ($7 for 4.5 oz. bar) and Hand Creme ($13.50 for a full-size tube) or $4.50 for a travel-size tube are available through the Kalastyle website. A matching candle ($25) is also available.

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Filed Under: scented body products
Tagged With: bar soap, beachy, hand cream, kalastyle, swedish dream

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  1. Coumarin says:
    2 June 2016 at 4:11 pm

    I like lathery shave bars but sadly Sea Salt Neroli was my least favorite Caldera.

    Love this packaging though.

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    • Jessica says:
      2 June 2016 at 5:16 pm

      I love the packaging, too! They also offer Seaweed and Sea Aster scents, which I haven’t tried yet.

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  2. Lovestosmellgood says:
    2 June 2016 at 4:56 pm

    I have used this soap in the shower…lovely and lathering. I did find it a bit drying though..but my skin is super sensitive and I was using it in the winter..

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    • Jessica says:
      2 June 2016 at 5:15 pm

      I need to try it in the shower now — and maybe even as a shave soap for legs!

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  3. Parley says:
    2 June 2016 at 5:06 pm

    This sounds delightful! I love sea air/beachy non-coconut scents for summer. never heard of it before (even though I’m in Sweden and everything!) but perhaps dreams of Sweden are best dreamt abroad.

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    • Jessica says:
      2 June 2016 at 5:15 pm

      Hah! These are “made in the USA,” incidentally — but the fantasy is very appealing. I visited Sweden once, ages ago… but I don’t think we made it to the seashore. :)

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  4. nozknoz says:
    2 June 2016 at 5:27 pm

    Love the packaging, and the soap and cream sound great for summer. Might be nice in a kitchen, too.

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    • Jessica says:
      5 June 2016 at 10:19 am

      Yes! I love anything citrus-y or fresh near the kitchen sink.

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  5. poodle says:
    2 June 2016 at 6:10 pm

    I love this soap. Hubby and I found it at a gift shop in Maine and we’ve been hooked ever since. I love the salt in it because it feels great on my itchy skin. In the winter I’m itchy because it’s dry. In the summer because it’s hot. I need to try the hand cream next. I do like the scent as well.

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    • Jessica says:
      5 June 2016 at 10:20 am

      I have a few skin complaints, too — weird springtime rashes on my hands, very dry legs in winter — and having the right soap really makes a difference in controlling them!

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  6. Erin says:
    2 June 2016 at 9:48 pm

    I love the hand cream, and recently found a distributor for the soap so should pick some up. It’s a great scent, very brisk and natural.

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    • platinum14 says:
      4 June 2016 at 10:15 am

      In Toronto?

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    • Jessica says:
      5 June 2016 at 10:20 am

      “Brisk” is the perfect adjective to describe it!

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  7. freskagirl says:
    4 June 2016 at 8:49 am

    I don’t normally love sea/ocean scents, but I might have to rethink them, since I love this soap, and used it last summer and have a bar in the shower now! It’s funny, because I had been thinking about buying the hand cream, and instead bought a tube of the Caldrea Sea Salt Neroli cream . . . and quite like it.

    I guess I’d better go read your Villa Lympia review now!

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    • Jessica says:
      5 June 2016 at 10:22 am

      I really don’t like any ocean/beach fragrance with coconut in it, or anything too “fresh” in that mainstream mens’ “sport” cologne way — but I do like the salt air vibe, in person (Coney Island!) or in a soap or perfume. I think I first realized this when I was wearing Rosine’s Ecume de Rose and DSH Beach Roses, and then I drifted into Creative Universe Mare and other seabreeze scents.

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  8. thomkallor says:
    4 June 2016 at 11:45 am

    Setting a record – two posts in a day! – I discovered the soap last year and it is dreamy – I use it in the shower – and I am someone who despises the marine/aquatic/ozonic flavor of so many of today’s masculine mass market scents. I also tried the hand creme and liked it, although I really don’t need my hand creme to be so heavily scented. The packaging is adorable! Has anyone tried the other soaps? Seaweed? Sea Aster???

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    • Jessica says:
      5 June 2016 at 10:23 am

      Keep it up, thomkallor! :)

      I’m with you on the typical masculine ozonic thing — ergh. I really want to try the Seaweed and Sea Aster soaps now — I especially love the sea horse on the Seaweed box!

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