No, the Spinster Sisters are not an ’80s new wave synth pop duo. It’s the name of an indie beauty brand from Colorado that I spotted at a bookstore this afternoon. (Side note: I went looking for Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, but they didn’t have it, gah! I really want to read it before the movie comes out.)
I love their logo! I can picture two spinster sisters in an old-timey apothecary with glass bottles and brass industrial shelves, crushing herbs by hand with a mortar and pestle before brewing up a batch of soap and body butter. I wanna display their soaps and lotions on a decorative shelf in the guest bathroom. ?

I bought a small 2-oz. tube of their Lavender Body Butter, which was $8.99. It contains shea butter, sweet almond oil, avocado oil and vitamin E, among other things, and it’s made without phtahlates or parabens.
Ingredients

Water, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Emulsifying Wax NF, fair-trade Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Fruit, Stearic Acid, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Leuconostoc/ Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Lactobacillus and Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract, Tocopherol (Vitamin E) Oil, and Essential Oil (EO) or Fragrance Oil (FR) [scent options note if EO or FR is used]

The lavender scent is strong, but I like it.
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