Love it! Totally surprised too! Like many of the other snobs on this site, I was afraid to go back to my pre-department stores roots and give it a shot...but SO glad I did. It seemed yummy, I liked the consistancy,and it actually worked - and didn't cost a fortune either! So I guess the old saying, "you get what you pay for"no longer applies...

I can still remember when my cousin Denise and I discovered St. Ives Apicot Scrub in junior high. We loved everything about - the smell, the "scrubbies", how smooth your skin felt after after using it. Somehow as I grew older and started spending way too much money on such things, this fabulous product dropped off my rador. Thank you Miss Megan for reminding me that you can still get high quality goods at a great price. I have purchased a number of salt and sugar scrubs in the last few years - everyone seems to have a version. I loved how smooth they made my skin but they were so sloppy and kind of hard and time consuming to rinse off . St. Ives Apricot Scrub has replaced thier spot in my shower - it is just as smoothing and mousturizing as my old scrubs but the creammy consistency rinses clean. I love the soft almondy scent. Plus the tube dispenser is so much easier than scooping a blob of product out of a jar. I've been using it every few days on my face, chest and arms. They are markedly smoother and clearer - I could not recommend this product more!

If you do not already use this product you must go to the nearest drugstore and get it immediately. This scrub is a MUST before self tanner and great for feet, elbows, backs...you get the point; and like puppylove said, at 3 bucks you can't afford not to have fabulously smooth and glowing skin. (the gentle version is good for your face too)

This product brought me back to the days of reading Seventeen magazine! :) I don't have sensitive skin, but I thought this product was too rough for my face. I prefer the less abrasive facial scrubs that use jojoba beads or whatever that exfoliate without feeling scratchy.HOWEVER... I found this is a FANTASTIC body scrub! What a treat! The flip top tube makes it shower friendly. And the clay in the product helps draw out impurities. What a bargain!

St. Ives...brings me back to highschool. I know I've used other lotions and such, but never have used the Apricot Scrub. I have become a bit of a snoot and didn't have faith in the scrub. I loved the result. Its a little painful to use, but my skin is really smooth after use. It just overall looks better (I haven't been using an exfoliant scrub, so I was nervous). The only thing I'm not crazy about is the smell. I don't think it smells like apricots, but rather a perfumey smell. Loved the result, hated the smell.

I do not like this scrub at all. It is way to harsh for sensitive skin. I was super red after. Used the rest of the tube for my feet. Worked much better as a foot scrub. I am sticking to the Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant. It is a delicate, gentler exfoliant and leaves skinheavenly smooth. It is not cheap, but a little goes a long way.

Baaaaaaaadd! Sooooooooooooooo unbelieveably bad for your skin. The crushed apricot pits create microtears in your skin which over time can cause it to lose firmness and elasticity. I cant even look at the stuff anymore. Use philosophy great mystery for your everyday scrub or...oooooh my favorite (right now) the Cosmedicine Medi-morphosis. Meg, you NEED a review for the medi-morphosis, the self-adjustiing exfoliator where the beads dissolve once they hit new skin and the dead skin as been rubbed off.

Reading about the blackheads - I found the miracle cure for at leasting making them look less "there". Do a clay mask ( I happen to be into Decleor's Armoa Purete right now) and then use DermaDocter's Picture Porefect serum afterweards. I cant remember the scientific explanation for what it does but it works. If that's enough. Once a week, twice if you're super oily.

I use this mostly for my body as an exfoliating body scrub. It's great when you mix it with a quarter size amount of pure aloe vera gel. It leaves your skin so refreshed and so very soft. I don't really use this on my face because even though it left my skin soft and clean after an hour I noticed that my face was oily, and I little blemishes the very next day. In my opinion, this is way better for the body.

I fins this much to abrasive for my skin. It leaves it feeling tender and red. I have never been a fan of exfoliators, maybe my skin is just too sensitive.

I would have to disagree with this product! This exfoliant is actually Jagged edge so Microscopically it is cutting up your skin, this product is way too abrasive for any skin type! For the body maybe the face I wouldhave to say stay away...

My skin is really sensitive so this was a little harsh for my legs and arms but it works wonders for my feet, looks like I just got a pedi after using this stuff.

Love love love it! I buy a couple at a time.

I really love the Non-gentle St Ives scrub! I love the medicinal smell. It's not s freaky hospital smell, it's a super duper refreshingly clean smell. The gentle one is great too, but I like to feel like I've been sandblasted after I use a scrub. It worked wonders on my husbands black heads, thank god. I can't stand looking at blackheads! This will just scrub them all away. I too have been using it for years. It's always a staple in my shower.

This stuff is great! It is one of my favorite drugstore facial cleansers. It really does a good job of getting your skin clean! I love it! I use the medicated version with the salicylic acid in it, because I have acne prone skin.

This product reminds me of high school! However since high school was a LONG time ago I don't care to use it on my face any more. There is a residue left over that bothers me. However I do like it as a body scrub. It's better on places less delicate for me.

No, no, noooo! I admit, I like feeling stripped, but man. This stuff is SO BAD. I used it for months at one point when I was on cheap streak and developed to get a whole bunch of broken capillaries around my nose and such- things that don't go awayyyyy, particularly since my skin is so darn fair. I muuuuch prefer the Cosmedicine, though I'm looking forward to trying some Philosophy stuff.

It made my skin every soft and smooth to the touch. Only thing that I didn't like about it was the smell, personally to me it smelled funky like a damp towel left on a damp floor of a locker room that had apricot scented soap spilled on it for days.I recommend this scrub to anyone that wants a product that will leave their skin soft and smooth with the first use of the product and continue to get these results with each use, doesn't want to spend alot on a scrub and disgrees with me on the smell of this scrub.

Uh, like certain people's mothers, I always had a pot of St. Ives scrub in my tub. And I stillalways have some kind of scrub in the tub 'cause after starting with St. Ives, a face scrub is now part of my bathing routine. I actuallylike this new formulation better than the old one -- it's gentler and more calming. But it doesn'thave the density of "scrubbiness" that I personally prefer. The scrubbing grains are smaller thanin the old formulation (a plus in my book, but now there aren't enough grains. That makes it a nice cleanser, but notmy favorite exfoliant. Bottom line: don't love it, but don't hate it.

The first time I used this product I think I was 10. I got a sample in my caboodle (remember those plastic makeup carriers with a mirror inside). I loved the silky smooth texture of my skin after. Ever since then I've gone back and forth from more expensive exfoliators, but this one has always been the one I go back to when my skin gets bad. I especially love the medicated version as well as the cream cleanser version with gentle, soft beads.

I have this in my shower right now. I saw a sample sized tube and bought it to try it out. I remember using this when I was a kid. Still a great product and I plan on buying full size. :)

Ok so I was at Ulta looking at this product deciding between the sensitive and the original when a woman near me said "I'm a dermatologist...can I have offer you some advice". Of course I said yes, and she proceeded to tell me that the the exfoliants used in St. Ives are jagged and cause micro tears in your skin, causing bacteria and dirt to get in which can cause blemishes and make you age much faster. I didnt buy it of course, as this was terrifying to me, but when I got home I decided to investigate to see if perhaps this lady was not a real dermatologist but rather, a disgruntled ex-St. Ives employee who goes around trying to scare people out of buying their products, and I found all sort of things on the web about this being true, including this post from a doctor: "I remember back in med school, during our second year derm lecture they flashed up a picture of the St. Ives Apricot Scrub that it seems everyone uses. Then they showed a microscopic picture of the skin after using the scrub. The sharp and irregular particles had completely shredded the skin! I went home that day and threw away my scrub!" Anyways just thought everyone should know this, as I also loved this product but now spend all day being horrified about the micro-tears in my skin!

I have been putting off testing this product. So sue me, but I just kept looking forlornly at that package and the thought of setting aside my Molten Brown Exhilirating Body Scrub in some fruit flavor that is so exotic I've never even heard of such a fruit and well...But finally, tonight, with nothing much to do, I decided to amuse myself with a side by side comparison. Yup, drugstore scrub on the left side, $30 tube purchased from the bathroom at the Bryant Park Hotel at the end of a depressing business trip on the right. And the winner is.....nobody! I guess that means the $4 tube is the winner. Molten Brown LOOKS more glorius all bronzy and sparkly and is indeed less pasty. I thought they both smelled equally good (the Molten Brown didn't smell as exotic as it sounds) and with both packages side by side in the shower, let's just says, one calls out to me like a life I want a piece of and one...doesn't. But at the end of the day, I'm feeling my arms, my legs, my feet and...nothin.' You decide. I suppose the practical girl says the $4 tube wins but, I've never been the practical sort and for me, a bath is a transformative experience. If I just wanted to get clean...a hose and a bar of Zest would do the trick.