Natural Hero Freeze + Ease Sports Spray

Natural Hero Freeze & Ease spray is a 99% natural pump spray that you can squirt onto your muscles before, during or after exercise to help you feel revived and energized.

It's a botanical blend of peppermint, white willow, arnica, witch hazel and blue chamomile that delivers a cooling blast on the surface of the skin that's followed by a light warmth to ease stiff and aching muscles. Natural Hero also pop some black oat seed extract in the pH-balanced formula to help condition your skin.

Well that all sounds rather lovely, and it is, but that's about it really.

Spray Freeze + Ease onto your eager body and you get an instant, and instantly refreshing cooling sensation. It's a bit like the fresh air tingle you get when you brush your teeth with that on-trend baking soda toothpaste. Imagine that clean and bright feeling, but on your muscles. It's very pleasant.

The spray is quick drying and easily absorbed. As it's not oily it doesn't leave any kind of greasy slippery sticky residue. Rub it into your muscles and it's gone, absorbed within seconds to do its job.

With no parabens (a class of chemicals widely used as preservatives in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals), no sodium laureth sulfate (a detergent and surfactant found in many personal care products) and no petrochemicals it's all agreeably unthreatening stuff if you're worried about covering your body with nasties, and it smells refreshingly pepperminty too.

After that initial cooling sensation there's a very subtle warmth that does its best to penetrate into pre-ride muscles to get them going or post-ride tired muscles to help them recover.

I say does its best because it doesn't seem to do anything much. Natural Hero's claims that Freeze + Ease can revive tired muscles and ease muscle fatigue and even give a boost to your training and recovery routine seem a little enthusiastic.

The warming effects of the spray don't permeate deep into the muscles, the fresh pepperminty feeling lasts less than half an hour and as it dries quickly on the skin it can't even be massaged into muscles with the mild benefit that a bit of a rub can afford. Despite frequent applications before and after rides, and on generally achy muscles at other times there was precious little tangible benefit or improvement of wellbeing to weary body parts.

Shame.

Verdict

Full of natural goodness, and smells and feels nice for a short while but has little perceptible or lasting effect.