Trader Joe’s Brazil Nut Body Scrub ($5.99) is a new sugar body scrub that was released to compliment the Brazil Nut Body Butter that’s been compared to Sol de Janeiro’s Bum Bum Cream. Brazil Nut Body Butter was released last year and was impossible to find as it instantly became a viral dupe sensation of the beloved, cult-favorite Bum Bum Cream with its tropical, gourmand scent.
It only made sense for Trader Joe’s to cash in on the success of the body butter and do a body scrub as well. Both products are available for a limited run this Summer so hurry and I really mean hurry to your local store if you want the scrub as in my area they started putting them out last night and there were only two on the shelves I managed to grab. I know in the OC they were limiting purchases on both the scrub and body butter at two per person. And I respect and appreciate that because too many people are buying all of it up and proceeding to sell it for $15 and upwards on E-bay, Amazon, Mercari, etc….! We have no such limits in place here as of yet but if you’re on the West Coast you may see them in place!
The scrub comes in an 8 oz tube for $5.99 compared to Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Body Scrub which is $42 at 7.8 oz. It has an attached lid which you can flip up to get access to the scrub. I can’t stress how much I love this packaging. The body butter also shares a similar lid. When you’re in the shower sometimes it’s a pain to u...