Soothing Spa (Mainstays)

Soothing Spa Wax Cubes by Mainstays (Walmart) is...I just don't know.  Worst experience I have ever had with wax cubes.

First, the wax crumbled as soon as I started to open the package.  I could get little tiny pieces out but to it to pop out I had to be the package in the freezer for 30 minutes. The wax was still soft and left residue on my skin.  I should have used my own advice from the Garden Rain post and worn plastic gloves.  I'm wondering if the problem with the wax texture is because of the type or amount of oil being added because this literally caused me to have a skin reaction.  Despite washing my hands several times after getting the wax into the warmer, the oil just did not want to get gone from my skin.  The next day I had all these little bumps on my hands and arms that itched and bled.  These wax cubes are the only thing I handled that I do not handle every single day, so I believe it was a result of these monsters.  I can't say with 100% certainty that this was the cause, but I hope you will heed my advice and wear plastic gloves when handling these wax cubes.  I'm now going to wear them whenever I handle any brand of wax cubes.

Moving on, I only put 1/3 of the package into my warmer because as soon as I opened the package they had a strong smell, and they had been in my freezer for half an hour.  When they started to melt the smell got so strong that after five minutes I turned the warmer off, turned the fan on, and went outside.  The scent isn't even that nice.  It smelled very fake to me, like someone had just sprayed a huge amount of air freshener to cover  up something truly foul.  I let the wax cool and harden, and then I tried again, hoping that the scent would be tamed down.  It was still very strong, very fake, and made me feel nauseous.  The sad thing is that I still have no idea what it was supposed to smell like.

Cleanup was not at all easy.  After leaving the wax to harden, I put it into the freezer for hours and it still wouldn't pop out.  I ended up having to carefully use a knife to get the wax to come out, and the large amount of residue left in the warmer was not easy to remove.  I ended up scraping it out with the paring knife.  The 2/3 that I did not use I threw away because I really do not want to experience that again.

There was nothing soothing about these and I would not recommend them unless you need to cover up the stench of a large dairy farm full of cow manure.  I have no doubt these would mask that smell, though it won't necessarily make your farm smell better.