Pour Vous Bath and Body

I came in here hoping for a cute nightie, but everything was far more than I wanted to pay for something to sleep in. It didn’t look like any better quality than Victoria’s Secret, so I just browsed a bit. The store owner was very helpful, and she pointed out every product detail she knew.
I felt bad because the store keeper was so nice, and offered to show me so much, that I ended up buying two candles. I picked it up randomly and fell in love with the scent — like Anthropologie. Kind of sweet, with a beatnik underlying.
I’m now addicted to that scent, so I’ll have to come back at the very least to find out who makes that candle.
For my bath and body needs, I prefer Sabon. For my pajamas, I’ll stick with Anthropologie.

Pour Vous is nice. It’s not LUSH, unfortunately, but after I scored a job interview with my dream job, I felt like celebrating. Living in Ukrainian Village, I walked up Western and down Division, scored a box of French macarons from Alliance, and stopped in a Pour Vous for a few bath bombs for a celebratory soak.
After browsing, I settled on the Adam and (St)Eve and Aphrodisiac bombs. The Aphrodisiac and a few other bombs have loads and loads of cocoa butter, which some people love, but as someone with naturally soft skin I just feel greasy after using them. Like, really greasy and I feel like all of my pores have just been clogged. So while the products smell nice, I’m heading back to LUSH. Besides, for around the same price, the bombs are 3 times as big at LUSH with more scent and fizzy goodness.
The stuff for Pour Vous smells nice and is wrapped prettily, the owner is friendly (we had a chat as I paid about their products and my upcoming interview), and they give free samples. I would come back in if I’m desperate for bath products and don’t feel up to heading across town for my usual. The products, though, are just meant for people who dig certain things and they just aren’t for me.

I pass by this store everyday on my way to the gym and only recently stopped by. They have lots of fun soaps, lotions and other fun scented things. I came in looking for a candle with lavender essential oil, the sales girl behind the counter was very helpful and looked around the store for almost 5 min and was unsuccessful. But she did point me towards some other candles there cool that were by a brand called 3 Sisters. I ended up getting one of the candles in a sweet orange fragrance.
The only thing that kind of urked me is that I came home and looked up the candle I bought and found out it was made with frangrance oil rather than essential oil. The candle didnt have a descriptive label, besides saying that it was a soy candle and what scent it was. And when I was looking at the candles the sales girl told me they were made from essential oils…

I kept passing by on times when the place was closed, always swayed by the unique items in the window display. I finally got the chance to come in, and they do have absolutely delicious smelling soaps. They did have some sales going on that day, but I just knew that I wasn’t going to find any time soon to indulge in the ones that would offer me a soothing and yummy smelling bath. I mostly wanted to check out the fun sushi print pajamas, but they were way too expensive for me to justify buying them. The sales people were helpful and friendly, and one day maybe when I feel like relaxing I’ll indulge in one of their soap bombs!

so, I went back and it’s is still the best! I got some new bath salts and soap.
ATTN Smokers or loved ones of smokers. or COOKS with stinky onion/​garlic hands: Get the black jack soap it has a wonderful anise scent that takes away the odor of smoking /​cooking (yay)
also they are always getting new wonderful items! Jane is super helpful in picking out the perfect gift/​thing for yourself!
Skip Lush and go here!

I am very cheap and low-​maintenance when it comes to beauty supplies. I don’t wear perfume or style my hair, I buy my makeup at CVS, and go to Bath and Body Works for soap. However, when I ran out of bar soap a few weeks ago, I decided to give a local shop a try.
Pour Vous was a pleasant surprise. The have a lot of high-​end soaps, lotions, perfumes, etc, but there are a some good deals still to be found. The woman working that day was very helpful, providing me with a plethora of moisturizing bar soap options. In the end, I settled on several made by Pour Vous. They are probably the best smelling soaps I have ever sniffed, they cost only $ 4 – 5 each (practically the same as B&BW), and they work great! I even walked away with a few free samples of other soaps.
I will certainly be a repeat customer. Buying soap at Pour Vous felt like a treat, even though it is a necessary item.

I am a sucker for bath and body stores but this one over-​delivers. The women who work there are so friendly and helpful. They aren’t overly pushy like some other places. (See: Mojo) They have various bath products, candles, and sleepwear. The sales lady told me about a eucalyptus + lavender bath soak because she noticed I had gathered up a lot of the After Workout eucalyptus /​mint scented products. She was kind enough to give me 2 small baggies to try! Very cool. I will definitely go back. Great place to find gifts for special folks.

I came here a few months ago to pick up a birthday present for my girlfriend. I have problems with chemicals so usually I can’t tolerate going into bath stores. The smells of your average bath and body works will usually give me a headache so bad I wind up on the floor.
I walked into Pour Vous and nothing. No headache, no overpowering smells, just some very clean smelling light fragrences. I looked around and didn’t really react to anything.
Anyway, as for the soaps, the selection is great. I bought a scrub from the splash line and a olive oil soap sampler. even bought some natural aftershave for myself which is fantastic. The people who work there were superfriendly and helpful. I can’t say enough about how good the service is there. They giftwrapped everything and tossed in a few extra samples to boot.

While I agree with my fellow bath-​loving Unilocalers on the products, I had a very different customer experience here. Call it, ‘how a $ 27 impulse purchase made me feel like crap and I’m still PO’d about it today.’
After admiring the counter person and presumable owner’s dog, and in turn listening to a bad sales pitch for infant products (btw, counter person, if it contains mint and doesn’t say ‘tear-​free’ it will result in screaming), I went to buy some bath salts and lotion.
Forked over credit card. Counter person wanted a photo ID. Um, OK, can’t recall that ever happening in the ‘hood for a little purchase, but whatever. Wasn’t even sure I had it on me, frankly. So I dig thru the diaper bag, find my license and hand it over.
She holds it up to my credit card. She looks at it, she looks at me and continues doing the back-​and-​forth for a full-​on 30 seconds. I must be visibly offended, because counter person then says something like, «I like to double check with all the credit card theft going on.»
Yeah, and I like to shop at places at that don’t treat me like a criminal. Make that like a criminal who takes babies out on a Sunday afternoon crime spree involving overpriced bath products in training for a future life of crime terrorizing Division Street vendors.
I could just kick myself for not demanding she halt the transaction. I would actually try to return the stuff on general principal but she’d probably attack me with a bath bomb.

It’s like lush… but different… and since we don’t have a LUSH in east village. I thought i’d give it a try.
The concept is similar to lush because POUR VOUS stocks natural and green products (uh. awesome)… However, there are not as many different products and product lines as one would find at LUSH.
This, however, does not matter to me because, unlike my LUSH fanatical friends, I have never had a need to purchase solid, green, moss smelling shampooo/​conditioner/​soap bars. Therefore, I’ve become a POUR VOUS addict.
WHY? you might ask.
The answer is simple
First, The entire SPLASH line
I’m a bath fanatic and the WAKE UP CALL MELT AWAY BATH BOMB by SPLASH is AWESOME!!! For those of you who like bath melts AND bath bombs… this is a great way to enjoy both without spending 15 dollars. The smell is fantastic (citrus and spice, but not sweet… one bath and the smell permeates my whole house) and the skin softening properties are amazing (like I slathered myself head to toe in fabulous lotion.)
They also have an amazing sugar/​salt scrub bar with SPLASH scrubs. This is a great way to try products before you take them home. My first time at POUR VOUS I walked away with two scrubs: Wake Up Call (a salt scrub that smells DEEE-​LICIOUS) and St. Adam and Eve (a fig (?) scented sugar scrub). I purchased both because the helpful counter lady pointed out that I couldn’t use the salt scrub after I shaved my legs (stinging ouchiness) and that the sugar scrub could also be used on my face (um wierd). I still tend to use the salt scrub more often than the sugar, and I smell fabulous and have soft skin all day… however, ironically, my husband started using the sugar scrub on his face and found that it helped scuff off his dry skin patches, left his skin smooth and conditioned, and did not create any acne (my words and observations… who the fuck knows what he said).
The SECOND reason that I love POUR VOUS is because they have a bunch of awesome soaps. I was, until recently, a body wash kind of girl (which POUR VOUS has plenty of) having mature beyond dove and dial… but then I learned in Microbiology about how extremely un-​hygenic loofahs are… and I returned to soap. POUR VOUS has some amazing soaps. The Japanese Yuzu soap by OLIBA is amazing… super hydrating and smells fantastic (don’t get the lotion… it dries out quickly). I’m now using the Biggs and Featherbelle MOISTURIZE goodie bar. For only 5 bucks (pretty cheap) I have an amazing soap made of Cocoa butter, goat’s milk, Macadamia nut oil, and Balsam of Peru. Everything in this line is Handmade, Natural, Nourishing, and does not contain any Synthetics… which is awesome.
The final reason I love POUR VOUS.
Samples– They give out some fantastic samples… which I appreciate. Inevitably the samples lead to future purchases… a great marketing strategy, but I appreciate being able to try things before I purchase them. For example, a sample helped me decide whether or not I wanted to purchase the Mint Julip salt and sugar scrub (NO, disgusting) and helped me decide which type of soap to buy in the future (yay! the one I’m using now).
In closing… this place rocks… go in and talk to the friendly owners. You’ll be sure to leave with something you love!

At first I mistook this for just another chain Bath and Body shop (my apologies) until it was explained to me that this is a more «natural» type of store with purer ingredients, less chemicals and perfumes, and one-​of-​a-​kind products. Who knew? Such a nice find! Very cozy atmosphere, the owners just hanging out and describing everything for you, a wide range of fairly prices soaps/​bath bombs/​massage bars/​fragrences. I almost started changing into my birthday suit and massaging my co-​Yelp friend Crister with the Adam and Steve oily massage bar… but then I banged my head and woke up. Now I just need to find someone’s bathtub to try out my bomb…