Whole Body At Whole Foods Market

Just an amazing selection of natural products. I was a huggeeee fan of their natural beauty product selection. it was pricey, but completely worth it and they had a lot of deals on products that would be priced higher at local organic markets.

The product is always nice. But the workers always seem angry and put upon. They can barely be bothered to put your stuff in a bag or to hand you a receipt. Let alone be greeted or respected as a customer. If you enjoy being ignored, looked down on, handled rudely or yelled at as part of your «whole body» régime, then you have come to the right place.

A good selection of natural products but not the place to go if you need help choosing anything.
I was in search of a green vegetable powder to add to my protein shakes on a quiet Saturday morning (I might have been the only customer in the store for most of my visit). Even after first wandering around for a few minutes trying to find the right section of the store (looking very lost), then spending a few minutes staring at the selection, unsure of which product was the best (looking very puzzled), no one offered to help me.
When I went to pay the cashier couldn’t have possibly been any slower or more unfriendly.
I ended up buying a few single serving packets and will see which one tastes best before committing to buying a larger supply. Hopefully I’ll be able to order it online or find another store to buy it in…

Ugh, can you have a little secret door to Whole Foods or something? I like this WB the best because it’s seperate from WF thus being not as crowded. I can go in and out without waiting in the «express» line for 10 minutes.
They have a huuuuge variety of vitamins and probiotics and for the most part they usually have someone on the floor who is pretty knowledgeable to help you out. I come here for my special lotion and conditioner (no, I’m not telling you what it is!) because you can only buy it online otherwise. They usually have great sales on the products I need so I stack up. If they are sold out of something they can issue rain checks. Yes, I have gotten a rain check. Half off a $ 10 bottle of lotion? You would too!
For the most part the staff is friendly and laid back. I just appreciate how everything is laid out for a smooth transaction.
* useless info — this space, along with WF and the luxury apts used to be a parking lot.

Love the selection of cosmetics here. Almost all of them are natural products that you don’t find anywhere else except online stores.

This spot is adjacent to but separate from the Whole Foods with which it’s associated. They offer an over-​the-​top amount of things you may need one of in your lifetime and yet convince people they need multiples of faux remedies. Well laid out and fairly well-​run, but this place wouldn’t last in another market. It’s amazing that such an informed populace funnels cash so readily into such a venture, but hey, they fill a niche.

Yes, you can find some products here that are geared towards the more natural/​chemical free lifestyle etc. But, the staff here is not particularly knowledgeable or helpful. When I went to checkout, I asked the cashier, I assume this soap is ok for the face since the brand’s name is kiss my face. He said (with attitude), that is just the brands name and does not necessarily mean it can be used on the face. So, I asked him, can it be used on the face? He said, it’s a bar of soap, I wouldn’t use it on my face. At this point, I felt he was not being helpful and was rather condescending. I responded that just because it is a bar of soap does not mean you can’t use it on your face. He said, a bar of soap is more drying. Mind you, he never really looked at the soap (which is a pure olive oil moisturizing bar). I completed my purchase and walked out shaking my head a bit and he was smirking/​laughing. I looked it up after I left and plenty of people use this on their face happily. Also, Whole Foods sale price is still more expensive than any place you can purchase it from online. ..

A great place to find brands you can’t (easily) find elsewhere and its an experience just to step in a breath. Ahh. Like a spa treatment in a store visit. The prices in my opinion are reasonable as well.
That said. I want to share my recent experience at Whole Body.
I bought my husband a pair of Tom’s shoes recently ($ 65) for Father’s Day. I had it in my head to set aside the receipt for safe keeping in the event the shoes need to be exchanged if they didn’t fit. Mommy brain prevailed and I misplaced the receipt. Sure enough the shoes were too narrow and I took the shoes back to store for an exchange 3 weeks later.
The very first thing the customer service person asked was the receipt. To keep this short, I was told that I would require a receipt for an exchange or a refund. The manager asked if I remember the exact date of the purchase. I didn’t but was going to find out from the credit card company. The manager informed me if I had the exact date of purchase, he can look up the transaction. Fine. The next day, I tote the shoes back to Whole Body to speak to the manager and give him the exact date of purchase. I was told then I had to wait 7 – 10 business days for their accounts dept to verify and look up the transaction.
Wait. But before that I needed to give them the cc number of the card I used to purchased the shoes. To be fair, I think I was rather patient in the matter in that I had gone back and forth to the store 3 times with the same darn shoes (the second time I went the manager was in a meeting and I had to return 2 hours later. Imagine if I didn’t work in the area and came from home in Queens?) I was understanding and came back each time to speak with the manager.
I keep thinking how easy it was for me to exchange merchandised from Old Navy, H&M or Forever 21, to name a few. It was humiliating too that the first time I brought the shoes in the customer service person and manager inspect every fiber on those shoes. I mean, the vibe I got was. This girl is trying to pull something and my husband wore those shoes on our carpet in our livingroom for 5 mins, if that.
This is still an ongoing matter but I’m glad it was purchasesd thru our credit card so there’s paper trail.
But this experience has left me cold to Whole Body and I’m not sure I can shop there again.

I’m a Whole Foods regular and usually either buy my shampoo/​soap/​etc here or at another health food store, and this is one of the best Whole Body stores I’ve been to. They have a huge selection of everything. I wandered in here while killing time one day and was almost late to my appointment after perusing the aisles and checking everything out.
I will definitely be back to purchase!
I also don’t think the prices are too bad… I can pay $ 4 – 5 for a nice bar of dead sea soap that actually helps my grumpy skin, or I could pay a lot more for body wash that will get used up faster. I can pay $ 10 for a bottle of «green» shampoo, or I can pay a lot more for salon stuff that isn’t green and usually gunks up my hair. They also sell nicer lotion than the regular stuff at the drug store, and the price is about the same unless you get the little bottles of local stuff or whatever (and I like to support local, but my point is that you can get competitively priced lotion as well.)

nice little aside to the big grocery store.

staff are very nice. i accidentally broke a candle and the staff were extremely nice about it, trying to make me feel less guilty.
prices are relatively competitive. large selection of organic cosmetics, especially baby products.

I wandered in here one day, not sure if I was going to buy anything, but more so to satiate my curiosity. But, it was indeed a good find. I found myself wasting a lot of time in here.
They have all kinds of hypoallergenic soaps, shampoos, oils, face wash, lotions, make-​up. My brain was going into sensory overload.
They also carry every imaginable vitamin and mineral supplement known to mankind. I was really bewildered while in here.
I did stop in a few days later remembering that I needed some face wash. I walked out with a bottle of face wash that has willow bark (whatever that is, now I will have to google it) and also a Well Being Journal.
Now my face and brain are happy. And that is priceless…

More for the zen green-​living individuals, but not necessarily ideal for the everyday shopper (especially when you look at their prices). I have tried a variety of items from this store — shampoos, conditioners, vitamins, workouts, etc and I find that they don’t work as well as the normal brands I may find in regular supermarkets. I am a big fan of the NewChapter vitamins they sell, but that is about it (and PS, you’ll find it MUCH cheaper if you order it through Amazon & the NewChapter website).
I do like how they keep the Whole Body store completely separate from their Whole Foods Market. Their store is kept tidy and the employees are quite helpful in helping you find what you want and providing recommendations.

I enjoy the whole body separate from the whole foods. It is a lot smaller and quiet to shop in. Everything is easy to find and the staff is really nice. I found some pretty cheap yoga mats here for $ 8ish.

I was never able to get into this store. Shopped around in it a few times but never bought anything. LIke the concept though.

I had some time to kill between meetings, and spent it all at Whole Body. I mean seriously… a whole store full of natural and organic beauty products? I was like a kid in a candy store. I think the people who work here may have thought I was a bit weird because I was smelling, touching, looking at EVERYTHING.
In Chicago, we only have a section of Whole Foods to play with fun beauty products. Here you will find an extended line of hair care, skin care, body care, supplements, books, and everything health and wellness related.
Love, love… LOVE this store!

After spending the entire weekend indoors trying in vain to kick the sick I emerged this morning and trudged to the office. There, my colleagues had a jolly time laughing at how ridiculous I sound with a stuffed up nose. Around 7:00 this evening I left, on a mission. A neti pot acquisition mission.
And of course, Whole Body had quite an assortment of nasal irrigation implements! Unbreakable ones for travel. Colorful ones that came in a set with special salt and oil for your nose with a price tag just shy of $ 50. And then the one I picked out — made of lead-​free ceramic for just under $ 20.
I’ll save you the graphic details pertaining to the nasal douching that then ensued. And if you really want ‘em, well, isn’t that what YouTube’s for?
I’ve been to Whole Body twice now and probably the thing I like best is that the store is completely separate from Whole Foods, which is one door down.
This is important!
Because if all you want is a neti pot (or an obscure homepathic remedy, yoga mat, or organic bath product) I seriously doubt you want to have to trouble yourself tripping over folks going for Fair Trade coffee, brown rice sushi and the like. Or wait in line behind them!

I never knew this place existed until Miss Miriam W. bundled me up and pointed me off in its direction to get a… NETI POT! My sinuses have been giving me troubs for about 6 weeks now and after reading about this fabled pot in NYT and seeing it on Oprah in a span of a week, I figured it would be the magic ticket.
I prepped by watching a terrifying video on YouTube which you, too, can enjoy here:
Keri found one of a man doing it with whiskey but I don’t see that in the directions on the box.
Anyhoo, back to Whole Body. I arrived to a fairly decent sized shop with clearly labeled aisles chock full of organic goodies from lotions, candles, and soaps to homeopathic remedies, vitamins and much more. There were about 8 types of Neti Pots to choose from — but I remembered the sage advice of Miriam and Kevin L (yes, the whole Unilocal family was involved) and only got the porcelain one and then, when in Rome, I hit up the rest of the aisles. Because when a girl’s in any type of store that sells beauty items you gots to know she is going to have a peruse!
I managed to restrict myself to one handcrafted cinnamon and clove soap (because who doesn’t want to small like apple cider/​pie!) and then forced my way to the check out (I really wanted to spend at least an hour looking at shampoos). And for all those inquiring minds, I have not tried the Neti Pot — yet. But you better believe it’s coming. Clear nasal passages ahoy!

Whole Body at Whole Foods Market is the closest thing I have found in NYC to an Elephant Pharm (Bay Area). I got the same feeling when I walked in. What is this store? Endless rows of vitamins and herbal supplements? Bath products? Beauty products? A yoga store? Jewelry? 1 part Pier 1, 1 part Vitamin World, 1 part Papyrus, 1 part Ulta, mix it all up and you almost get a drink similar to the taste of Elephant Pharm. The only different is that Elephant Pharm is so much bigger, better, has a greater library and extensive rows of pills/​cosmetics/​and groceries that are good for you. Enough about the Elephant Pharm, this is a review about Whole Body.
I did find some really good products I will be trying out from Whole Body. They do have all the basic vitamins, organic cosmetics, herbal this and thats, a fine selection of baby goods, and mineral makeup. The store is not crowded which I love. It’s separate from the Whole Food grocery and the place is quiet. You probably won’t be able to leave here without spending at least $ 18. Eco stuff and holistic practices are not cheap but you will feel great trying them out. I’m all for places like this and I hope they build more around the city.