St. Ives Mixing Bar In NYC
When I went to New York City for the #BlogHer18 conference I met my friend Claudia from Trendy Latina at our hotel. We were going to attend a press event and she invited me to join her at the St. Ives Mixing Bar to check out their products.
From the minute I walked in and saw the green wall full of lush greens and fresh fruits and vegetables, I knew I would love it there.
What Is St. Ives Mixing Bar?
You can purchase products that are already mixed and packaged or you can design your own facial and body products. You can make a face scrub, face moisturizer, or body lotion.
To customize your products, you take a menu from the mixing bar and bring it over to the sink stations. From there you can smell, feel, and even sample some of the products on your own skin. This way you can decide which ingredients you like most, the fragrance you want, and how deep of an exfoliant you need.
First you decide on how deep of an exfoliant you want for your scrub:
- Deep
- Moderate
- Gentle
Then you select an exfoliant:
- Walnut shell powder
- Volcanic sand
- Apricot stone
Last, you choose the ingredient your skin will love:
- Cucumber kale
- Avocado honey
- Watermelon agave
- Pineapple mango
- Aloe rose water
- Pink grapefruit yuzu
- Green apple kiwi
- Guava tangerine
When you bring your recipe card up to the mixing bar, they will mix all the ingredients together right in front of you so you can watch the process. Then they blend it all together in a NinjaChef blender and place them into your own custom labeled container.
Why Visit St. Ives Mixing Bar?
Why not?? This place was so much fun! The prices for each customized creation was also very affordable. For just $12 I have my own all natural, personally customized exfoliant facial scrub and the contents were still warm when they handed me my products! Talk about freshly made!
I also loved the other activities you could do within the store while waiting for your recipe to be made. They have a fun photo booth where you can share your photos online and tag St. Ives @sttivesskin and #sttivesmixingbar. And you can also visit their vending machine to receive a free sample product after completing a short questionnaire.
I definitely plan to come back. I told my mom this would be a fun thing to do next time we take a trip down to New York City! It’s very affordable, the products are something we use daily anyway and it would be a fun activity to do together!
View my video recap of the St. Ives Mixing Bar experience.
Check out the St. Ives Mixing Bar for your next visit in the city!