Sakaré

A lovely little store that sells soaps to creams. I was hushed in by Daci of Romania who then gave me and my friend a taster of some of the products. Firstly he gave us the salt scrub experience which after using the salt and then washing out hands with water our skin felt like baby skin afterwards so strange but so nice and smelt amazing. He then placed some moisture onto our hands again given us a great smell and a silky sensation on our skin. The then placed this special peeling serum onto my skin and rubbed it in which then took away dead skin cells was quite gross seining my skin flaking away but wow my skin looked so much fresher afterwards and felt amazing. Apparently the peeling serum is great to use on face as it prevents spots as you will be clearing away all the bad dead skin cells. I highly recommend anyone to go along and try the products as interesting. However the products are expensive but if you go near the end of the day you might just get it a cheaper.

2.5 rounded up. Similarly, as other reviewers have mentioned they get you in with free soap and free hand wash or in my case I was in a bad mood that evening leaving a different store.
Nice products with a heavy price tag. Not to worry, keep feeling unsatisfied and they will continue to lower the cost and add things for free. As long as you like the product and get it for more than 50% off, you should be fine.
The experience is much like when you’re at an expensive flea market stand, camouflaged as a classy brick and mortar. So if you’re into bartering, this place is perfect.
The associates are charming and friendly. The products are pretty good. I’m using the salt scrub and lotion once a week and it seems to help with my severely dry skin.
I left feeling fine with no buyers remorse. Just unhappy that the products were a bit heavy and they like to waste your time like a car dealership. It doesn’t help while being cranky from hunger.
Not a good business model for long term customers but hey they seem to be fine as long as there’s tourism.
Side note: I look at the free piece of soap and wonder what attachment I had to it in the first place. I guess because I thought it was truly free. hahahahaha!
What you need to know:
– Never pay full price
– Nothing is free. You have been warned.
– Don’t enter the store if your mind is somewhere else
– Receipts will not label store information. Appears sketchy. Wonder if they pay taxes. Things that make you go «ho hum»
– Check to see what the return policy is
– Time consuming
– Leave satisfied
– Parent company is «Soap & Co»

I hope that by writing this review, I can begin to forgive myself for falling into this High Street trap, and to warn others. Consulting Unilocal,in addition to myriad other consumer websites, would have saved me the equivalent of $ 36 USD (25 pounds), plus my sense of self respect. Seriously, my last 24 hours in London were spent playing and replaying how I could’ve allowed myself, and my friend, both highly educated and shrewd people, to get caught up in this overpriced cosmetics scam.
My story goes as others have described. My friend and I were offered the free soap sample on the street, and then lured in with the nail buffing cube. The store looks upmarket, so you get in the mindset that the products are going to be more expensive. The shiny nails, the lotions and scrubs that make your skin soft, it all seemed too good to be true. We’re told that the nail buffer can only be purchased with the kit, which gets cut from 45 pounds down to 25, then offered free with the purchase of other products totaling at least 70 pounds. The fact that there are no price tags on anything should be a huge warning sign. Psychologically it seems like you’re getting a deal when the prices get cut in half, but when they’re still extortionate for the quality of the products themselves, there’s absolutely no savings.
The cuticle oil and the hand lotion are both primarily comprised of mineral oil (paraffinum liquidum), and also contains methylparabens. Check out the Environmental Working Group’s website if you want to find out how dubious these ingredients are, despite the salesperson’s pitch that the products are «all natural.» In addition, mineral oil is also one of the cheapest substances around, so you’re paying a huge premium for low cost, potentially hazardous ingredients. This stuff ain’t La Mer.
A final alarm bell should’ve sounded when I asked the salesperson whether these products were also sold in New York (I don’t live in the UK, and was told that in order to get refill strips for my nail buffer, I would have to come back to the store – of course, so they can try to sell you more products!). The guy said that they had a store, «near Victoria’s Secret.» Um, there are thousands of stores in the city, and WTF kind of evasive non-​answer is that? Again, it all happened very fast, and he was persuasive, but I am now all the wiser (if $ 36 poorer).

My daughter got scammed here today. Hard sell
and could not get out with a purchase. Just googled the products. Very disappointed. Stay away.

My friend (visiting me from overseas) and I were walking on the street when this salesman from Sakare invited us into the store. We walked in. My friend tried some of their products (hand cream, scrub…), and the products looked ok, but were way overpiced (£35 for a tiny 125ml hand cream. Seriously??). The salesman was so pushy (pushy is actually an understatement), he was trying to force her to buy products. When my friend said «I’m on holiday, let me see if this lasts a bit longer first. I’ll think of it», the salesman became extremely rude. He told her «sorry, is it too expensive for you? I know not everyone can afford that price». We did not walk into a store to get insulted. We did not even bother responding to that rude being. We just left the store and will never step foot in it, nor would we recommend it to any of our friends or families.

Be careful and don’t let other people blow your mind. And if you already have let, remember that the karma will sooner or later do its thing. To those who sell the products and intentionally lie to people and make huuuge profits: hope you perfectly understand what you are doing and the consequences of it. Remember: it’s not about the money spent (even though it’s also very crucial)/ money earned, it’s about your souls, feeling happiness and living the life. Don’t think that with this attitude one can be a good person and deserves a better life. Karma, or God, or whatever you may call it will do the thing. Hope you are doing good, buddies. Just be aware and if I were you, I’d have changed the business model/​occupation. Too much negative, you know.
P. S. Yes, those guys are scam. We also bought some stuff there, but when came home did a little bit of research and understood the picture. We didn’t want to screw the mood so didn’t even try to return the goods (but I’ve read lots of literature and laws on it, I must admit). Not sure if it is safe to use it at all, so it’s still staying in the corner. Be aware and always check the Internet before buying :)

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS STORE !!! The scrub is the best smell I’ve ever smelled
The sales people were from Israel where the products concentrate from
I bought everything in the store
I could feel the tightening mask work and I looooveeeeee the softness I feel after I used everything!!!
I think any negative comment is because someone couldn’t afford it or other shops on the street who are jealous. I see it happen all the time with the best trying to be brought down!
They’re products are natural and animal testing FREE!!!
They make it a point to ensure that
I LOVE SAKARE AND WILL USE THE PRODUCTS FOR THE Next 2 – 3 years
Olivia Fox

I walked into this store after being offered a free soap sample. The sales rep had me try several products, and I really liked them. They smelled nice and made my nails shiny. I was seriously ready to spend £100s but I decided to wait and google the brand first since I had never heard of them.
Lo and behold… there are so many reviews about how they scammed people. See more here
I’m so glad I decided to do my research and didn’t fall into their scam.

Hmm I was actually completely taken in by the shop — and I thought I was completely sales tactic resistant! A sales assistant on the street outside the shop gave me some free soap then asked if I had a minute — as I was xmas shopping and looking for something for my mum, I actually came with him into the shop. He tried a nail buffer on me that gave my nails instant shine. I was genuinely impressed and wanted to buy the buffer for myself but was told it only came as part of a nail kit, which included cuticle oil, a file and ‘natural mineral’ hand cream. The hand cream smelt cheap but I really wanted the buffer so was intrigued. Admittedly I am not the kind of woman that is at all familiar with beauty products so I had no frame of reference for how much this should cost! He told me each kit was £45 but he’d give me 2 for £60 and then one free — so effectively 3 for £20. I went for it for some reason!
Thing is that the nail buffer works but the cream is the cheapest and most chemically around — it actually makes my eyes sting! — and I normally avoid chemically lotions and potions. It even has parabens in it. I’ve googled the store and a lot of people think it’s a scam, in that they purport to sell high quality mineral and herb products but they’re actually the cheapest of the cheap and sold at completely exaggerated prices. I also googled nail shine buffers and found that Avon do one for about £3!
I’m going to attempt to take the 2 unopened boxes back to the shop tomorrow, despite the fact that it says on the receipt that there is no refund as it was a discount. I don’t hold out much hope so i’ve essentially been fleeced £60 for what you could buy down a local market! I don’t think i’ll be gifting a kit to my mum.
Avoid — if you enter this store, you will buy something! everything seems very impressive, the staff are great at their job and in a busy Covent Garden store, you tend to assume that you’re buying quality.

This place is racist. Avoid it if you want to keep your dignity. I was not even a customer. Me and my sister were simply walking on Bond Street talking amongst ourselves, happened to walked past their white european sales people who handed out samples outside and they decided to mock our oriental ethnicity. the tall blonde male shouted out an offensive term to us and he and his two female sales assistants started laughing and looking at us. i couldn’t believe this happened. apparently this is a common occurence. i read another Unilocal reviewer who also got her nationality insulted. what is wrong with these people?! its wrong to treat any human being like this. i do not deserve to be singled out in the street, laughed at for being my race. anyway, how they treated me traumatised me and i went back the following day as i couldn’t find any number or email to contact.
when i came back, i got the same smug looks from the sales assistants. i’m sorry but i can’t stand their smug looks. i’m sorry but you have nothing to be proud of. you’re a sales assistant. big fucking woo. they also assumed that i was part of an asian group of friends already in the store. as i walked in, they could have asked how they could help me, instead i immediately got assumptions and prejudices. i then kindly asked where the manager was, one of the sales guys made me feel really small and told me the manager was at the back of the store. he wasn’t and i was stared at my the other sales assistants, until i finally left.
it also came to my attention as i was in the shop, that my complaint of how i was treated would not be taken seriously, i think even if i was able to speak to the manager he would have agreed with the actions of his employee that was the general discrimatory vibe i was getting.
also, i wouldn’t give this shithole any stars, i had to otherwise Unilocal wouldn’t post.

Do not patronize this business. First, they are hucksters and second, their product is horrible. I’ll start with the second. I used their Deep Cleansing Salt Scrub. It was represented to be Dead Sea Salts, Olive Oil and fragrance. I applied to to my skin and all seemed fine. I put a tiny bit on a body brush I have used for a very long time so I could reach my back area and it has stood up to many similar products. The next day I went to use my body brush and it promptly disintegrated all over the bath tub. I have used many similar products and have never experienced such a disaster. Whatever is in this product managed to disintegrate my brush.
And now for the first part. We were merely walking by after dinner one night and were accosted on the sidewalk by a quick-​talking Israeli who would simply not take no for an answer. I can’t think of any other establishment on New Bond Street that operates in such a manner. We kept saying no we didn’t want anything and tried to walk on, only to have the young man grab my arm to drag me inside, all the while stating he just wanted to show us something. He proceeded to go through his sales pitch, putting a bit of product on my hands and instructed me to rub gently and then wash off. All good, but I told him I still didn’t want anything. He then proceeded to push other products under my nose saying he’d throw them all into the package if I just bought the salt scrub. He said disparaging things about where we were from, then proceeded to tell me how awful my face looked (even though I’m told I look 10 years younger than my age) and said his face product line would take care of everything. Finally just to get out of there, we bought the salt scrub and body butter. Extraordinarily expensive I might add. 150 pounds, which was ridiculous, but we just wanted to get out and as far away as possible.
This is a business you should stay far away from.

Summary:
Discriminatory hard-​selling salesman. Sketchy business trying to pass itself off as a high-​end retailer.
Details:
On Friday, September 27 around 5:30PM, I was enticed into a relatively new store called Sakaré by a free soap sample and the promise of a skincare product demonstration. At first glance, Sakaré appears to be yet another high-​end Bond Street retail establishment, complete with nice fixtures and fancy lighting. However, that’s where the similarities end. Almost instantly after following the salesman into the store, I could sense that something was not quite right.
Red flags
— I immediately noticed that all the products were branded as Soap & Co., which (1) was inconsistent with the signage on the store and (2) sounds about as generic and appealing as a Walmart proprietary brand. Additionally, the product packaging/​labeling was low quality and amateurish. I found it strange that a Bond Street retailer would have such a disjointed, poorly developed product marketing strategy.
— As the salesperson applied salt scrubs and moisturizers on my hands, he also applied hard-​selling sales techniques. Examples include (1) side-​stepping my questions about price, (2) refusing to wash the product off my hands until he had slipped in a few more selling points, and (3) asking me what facial care products I currently use and then denigrating their quality.
— The worst part, however, was that after I politely refused to purchase the products multiple times (the moisturizer was too greasy), the salesman became very sarcastic, sneered at me, and then insulted my nationality.
I was so shocked by his sarcastic insult that I simply turned around and walked out of the store without saying another word. I have experienced blatant racism very few times in my life, and it has certainly never before come from a salesperson at a «high-​end» retailer.
About 30 minutes later, I returned to the store and politely but firmly asked to speak with a manager. However, I was again blindsided by how shady this business is. Two different employees refused to tell me the phone number, email, or name of the store manager. They claimed that the store actually did not have a manager because the previous one had left and a new one had not been assigned yet. The sole piece of info listed on the store’s business card was the website (
); the salespeople claimed that I would find company contact info on the website.
With nothing more that I could do at that point, I went home and checked out the website, which turned out to be a dead end. It had no company contact info, no email address where I could alert a manager to the treatment that I received at the store. In fact,
is a one-​page website consisting of a couple pictures of the store and not much more.
Determined to get some answers, I googled «Soap & Co.» That’s when this all got more interesting. The first search result was a recruitment website (
) which recruits «self-​employed» young people to «hunt» customers with promises of making «real money.» From this, I assume that I couldn’t speak to a manager because the self-​employed salespeople don’t answer to anyone as long as Soap & Co. gets a cut of their sales from the store.
Another interesting search result for «Soap & Co.» showed up as well (
). I definitely do not agree with the political statements that are made on the page, but if you scroll to the middle, you’ll see the results of some sleuthing that has been done on Soap & Co. and other similarly shady companies. Apparently the company has been deliberately elusive in the past and has been accused of flouting consumer protection and employment laws before I ever walked into Sakaré.
So, there you have it. Sakaré is a place where salesmen can blatantly insult your national origin, but the store is so shady that you can’t do much about it, except tell people what happened on Unilocal