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Author: mybeautywaxstash

  • 3 Things I Bought From Aldi In Their Christmas Sale

    With New Year, school half term and bad weather, shopping has been very limited in this household. I would normally venture in various supermarkets, especially in January to see what they have on special offer that’s Christmas or New Year related. But that’s not really been happening at the start of 2025. But I did go into my local Aldi store quickly to grab a few grocery essentials and picked up 3 bath and home fragrance products that I thought were great value. What did I buy?

    3 Things I Bought From Aldi In Their Christmas Sale
    Fireside Spice Reed Diffuser

    I picked this up because I love fireside as a scent in home fragrance products. Fireside Spice is made up of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and biscuit. Spicy, warming, almost bakery basked with a hint of woody notes. This screams winter! Packaging isn’t too Christmas like, but does have stockings, candy cane leaf images on a neutral coloured boxed. Reduced to £1.49.

    Fireside Spice Reed Diffuser
    Hotel Collection Pomegranate Scented Set of 3 Bath Bombs

    3 pomegranate scented round, white and medium sized bath bombs housed in a white cracker finished off with a black ribbon. My eyes caught this because of how simple but stylish this looked. The scent is a Jo Malone dupe and I could smell this from the packaging, which is strong and distinctive. How much? Only 99p!

    Hotel Collection Pomegranate Scented Set of 3 Bath Bombs
    Purewick Votive Candle Set

    This is a beautifully boxed set of 3 glass votive candles in the fragrances of Starry Night, Let it Snow and Sleigh Bells Ring. Each one is quite different in scent. One is very smoky and woody. Another with a spicy scent to it with a little caramelised sugar and the last woody and a touch of fruitiness. Such a beautifully presented box of candles which only cost 99p!

    Purewick Votive Candle Set

    So what do I think of these items I picked up? Absolute BARGAINS! Nicely packaged, great scents and budget busting pricing! What am I going to do with these? These will be going straight into my gift drawer for future use, except the reed diffuser, that’s MINE!

  • Is Surf’s Deep Sea Wax Melt Any Good?

    As a wax melt lover, I got very excited when I found out B&M were selling wax melts from the laundry brand Surf. I love laundry scents as there’s nothing nicer, fresher and cleaner fragrance wise to use in your home. So of course when I found them I had to give them a go. Costing only £1.50 each and available in 3 different fragrances, I picked up Deep Blue. What was it like?

    Surf’s Deep Sea Wax Melts
    Packaging

    These wax melts come in a rectangular and thin cardboard box. It has a look of how laundry powder/products are packaged in regards to colour and design. Looking at actual Surf Deep Sea products, the colour and images are exactly the same so ties in with the brand perfectly.

    How do the wax melts look?

    Deep Sea wax melts comes in a thin, all white bar. Segmented, so easy to use a square at a time, with each square having a butterfly shape on them which are slightly raised. White in colour, no glitter or pigments and quite sizeable, covering two thirds of the length of my hand.

    Fragrance

    Fresh, clean, powdery with a slight marine like scent to it. A great fragrance if you want something that isn’t floral or fruit based. This is very neutral in fragrance, most people will like it and smells like a traditional laundry scent.

    In melt

    I used one square of this wax melt and found it took a little time to become liquid. The fragrance took time to kick in too. A lot of laundry scented wax melts I’ve used in the past I’ve found the fragrance shoots through quickly, but this didn’t. It took awhile for this to come through but was pleasant when it finally did.

    Strength & Longevity

    When the wax finally got going, the strength of this went from a light to medium to light. It took time to build and as soon as it did the scent got less to the point I turned my wax warmer off. It seemed pointless having it on! Longevity? Poor, not great. I had this melting in two different rooms and it didn’t particularly impress me.

    Recommended?

    No. I’ve melted LOTS of laundry scented wax melts that were punchy and strong and long lasting, and this wasn’t. So disappointing! Especially coming from an actual laundry product brand! Such a shame as I liked the packaging, the size and look of the wax melts but because of how it performed I won’t be buying this again.

  • Glow’s Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar

    Bubble bars should be a bath lover’s best friend. If you love a bath bomb, chances are you will love bubble bars too. They’re one of my favourite bath products to use when I want to be indulgent. I haven’t tried bubble bars from Glow, a small business who make and sell products such as wax melts, air fresheners, body butters and face serums. So I was excited to see that a bubble bar was included in their December’s Subscription Box which I purchased last year. So what was it like and did it live up to my expectations?

    Glow’s Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar
    How does it look?

    Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar is shaped like a thick slice of swiss roll. It’s a deep pink/red colour with swirls of a paler pink shade inside the middle, giving it that swiss roll look. It’s quite solid. I expected it to be a little softer but it’s very firm and in no way fragile.

    Fragrance

    This bubble bar smells like a mix of mint and spices. Spice wise, it could be something warming such as a mix of ginger, mixed spice or/and cinnamon. I didn’t get much in the form of cocoa, but overall the fragrance was really good. Not massively sweet or too bakery based. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised because just off the fragrance name I thought this scent would be too busy and it wasn’t.

    In the bath

    I broke Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar in two and crumbled half of it under warm running water. I did find the bar itself was quite tough to break up because it was so hard. But once done, in the bath it created a little froth on top of the bath water and the water itself was cloudy, slightly pink in colour which then went clear. The fragrance was subtle and gorgeous. Very unusual in smell and very relaxing. Perfect strength because if it was heavier it could have been too much.

    * I used the second half of the bubble bar differently. Instead of first crumbling it I put it under warm running water whole. Waited a bit, it then got softer and then I crumbled it. Much easier with and I think it created more bubbles this time rather than froth.

    This was very gentle on my skin. As someone who had easily irritated skin in 2024, I did worry about using this but no issues. Absolutely fine on the skin, no irritation and didn’t dry my skin out. Strangely enough after coming out of the bath my skin felt very clean (not stripped) which I didn’t expect from this product alone. What I would have liked though is to feel more moisture from this bubble bar on my skin.

    Recommended?

    I liked using this bubble bar. My favourite part of it has got to be the fragrance because it’s different and comforting. I have a feeling if I used the whole bubble bar I would have enjoyed this even more, got more fragrance, more bubbles rather than froth and possibly more moisture for my skin. Good job I have another bubble bar to try out! Would I recommend this? Yes, even just for the fragrance alone and it’s because it’s not a bath bomb. Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar is a lovely bath product, great seasonal fragrance and costs only £4.50. There are other fragrances available here which should suit everyone’s personal fragrance needs, so try it out!

  • My 3 Favourite Products of 2024

    Now 2024 has ended, I thought I would look back on all the products I’ve used this year. Some I would happily repurchase again, some I wouldn’t waste my money on and some are now favourites of mine. Favourites to the point they impressed me, I loved using them and would buy again in a heart beat. So what were my favourite products of 2024?

    My 3 Favourite Products of 2024
    Lidl’s LUSH Dupe Shower Gels

    I genuinely had no idea how Lidl’s LUSH dupe shower gels would be, but I’m glad I tried them. It’s not hard to get shower gels that foam/bubble and clean the skin, but to really enjoy using them is something else. Both Relax and Honey I’m Home performed great in the bath and shower. They foamed up beautifully in the shower and created lots of soft bubbles in the bath. My skin didn’t dry out and each one cleaned my skin perfectly. But it was the fragrances that got me. Comforting, soothing, relaxing. These smell amazing, and for only £1.99 each for 500ml I would buy these time and time again (and I have!).

    Lidl’s Relax Shower Gel
    Superdrug’s Fruity Blood Orange Body Mist

    Fruity Blood Orange Body Mist from Superdrug was a limited edition, affordable fragrance brought out for Autumn/Halloween. The fragrance itself was unusual and very different compared to other body mists on the market. Citrus, musk, spices, not a light fragrance at all but quite a deep and dark one, which I love! It only cost £1.74 at the time and I really wish I had bought more now.

    Superdrug’s Fruity Blood Orange Body Mist
    Home of Honey’s 12 Days of Christmas Part 1 Wax Melts

    I was gifted 12 Days of Christmas Part 1 Wax Melts from Home of Honey Candle Co. This consisted of a collection of 12 Christmas/Winter inspired scented wax melts. This set was one of my favourite products of 2024 because all of the fragrances were beautiful, great strength and great longevity. I was so impressed by this and enjoyed each melt as I used them.

    Home of Honey’s 12 Days of Christmas Part 1 Wax Melts

    So that’s my 3 stand out products for 2024. Were there more? Possibly. Did I love every minute using these? Definitely. Am I sad I’ve used these all up now? Absolutely! Definitely 3 great, affordable and good quality products that deserve to be in my top 3 favourite products of last year.