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  • Getting Summer Ready With Foam & Fortune Body Products In Tesco!

    A range that’s recently caught my eye while checking out the personal care aisles of my local Tesco is a brand called Foam & Fortune. I’m not too sure how new they are, but they seemed perfect to try out as the weather gets warmer and sunnier. So what products did I find?

    Foam & Fortune Body products in Tesco
    Chill Out Body Butter

    Fragranced in coconut and lime, this body butter looked thick and luxurious in its brightly labelled pot. An unusual fragrance combination that should be tropical, fruity and slightly zesty and fresh. 250ml priced at £4.50.

    Foam & Fortune’s Chill Out Body Butter
    Rise & Shine Body Butter

    Pink grapefruit in flavour so I’m hoping this is fruity, slightly sweet and citrus blend, perfect for summer use. Similar formulation as Chill Out, same packaging (just different colour labelling which matches the fragrance name) same price and size.

    Foam & Fortune’s Rise & Shine Body Butter
    Positive Energy Body Scrub

    Positive Energy Body Scrub comes in the fragrance of orange and mango. If this doesn’t scream summer nothing else does! This looks and sounds like an effective body scrub that doesn’t dry the skin out and actually moisturises. 300g for £5.00.

    Foam & Fortune’s Positive Energy Body Scrub
    Rise & Shine Body Scrub

    Pink grapefruit in fragrance and looks just as rich and decadent as Positive Energy. Perfect body care partner to Rise & Shine in the body butter which makes the ideal layering partnership.

    Foam & Fortune’s Rise & Shine Body Scrub
    Pear & Freesia Bath Fizzer

    This is quite large in size and a basic flower shape. The scent of this was pleasant and another fruity fragrance in this whole collection. 120g for only £2.75.

    Foam & Fortune’s Pear & Freesia Bath Fizzer
    Berry Blast Bath Fizzer

    Another generously sized bath fizzer but this time berry scented. Just as fruity in smell but very different to Pear & Freesia. Berry Blast comes in a simple 5 pointed star shape with purple and white marbling colouring throughout. Same price and same weight as Pear & Freesia.

    Foam & Fortune’s Berry Blast Bath Fizzer
    Sweet Pomegranate Soap Bar

    A nice, almost handmade looking bar of soap which smelt really good even though it was wrapped in plastic. Sweet pomegranate in scent, white red and pink in colour and only £3.50 for 140g.

    Foam & Fortune’s Sweet Pomegranate Soap Bar
    First impressions?

    These products look fun. Great sizes, brightly labelled with products that work well with each other and can be slotted nicely into a body care routine. Prices aren’t expensive and quite affordable and I genuinely would like to try this range out. Available in store (possibly store dependant) and online. So why not give these products a go? I hopefully will!

  • 59p Bath Cubes From Dirty Works in Home Bargains

    In these times where everything is so expensive, it’s always nice to be able to buy something which isn’t a necessity, but a treat, and a cheap one too! Most bath lovers will enjoy using various products at bath time to help them unwind and relax. So Dirty Works Cube Tropicana Fizzy Bath Cubes might appeal to these people. I bought this from Home Bargains for only 59p! But was it 59p well spent?

    Dirty Works Cube Tropicana Fizzy Bath Cubes
    What are fizzy bath cubes?

    This is just another name for bath fizzers. The reason its called ‘cubes’ is because you will be throwing cubes of Cube Tropicana in the bath! It SHOULD provide some form of fragrance and fizz in the bath while it dissolves.

    Packaging

    Dirty Works Cube Tropicana Fizzy Bath Cubes comes in a rectangular cardboard box. Brightly coloured, very appealing with an open window at the front, so you can see the bath cubes inside.

    How do these bath cubes look?

    The bath cubes come in a chunky rectangular bar which is segmented off like a bar of chocolate. To use, you snap off the amount of cubes you want to throw into the bath. The bar itself is purple and green in colour, which matches the colouring of it’s packaging perfectly. On the back, the Dirty Works logo is embossed into it. The texture of this looks and feels like most bath fizzers or bath bombs which is hard and chalky.

    Fragrance

    These bath cubes are supposed to have a berry like fragrance to them. What I got was definitely fruity, more berry than anything else, and a little powdery. But also a smell of chalkiness you get with some bath fizzers. The fragrance itself was pleasant. Not the best fragrance I’ve ever smelt from a bath product, or the strongest, but nice enough.

    In the bath

    I used two cubes of Dirty Works Cube Tropicana Fizzy Bath Cubes. I popped them in the bath and they immediately fizzed, while slowly turning the water from clear to a soft mint colour. The bath cubes took awhile to disappear, but did and left no residue. No foam or bubbles was created, just coloured water was left behind. Fragrance wise it was incredibly faint. I just about got a slight whiff of the scent of these bath cubes but nothing that stood out.

    Being in the bath, it was ok. It just felt as if I was sitting in coloured water. Nothing particularly moisturising, comforting or pampering about this bath. But on a positive note it didn’t irritate or dry out my skin during or after. So overall not a bad bathing experience but not the best.

    Recommended?

    This needed to be more fragrant. It would have improved this product so much if this smelt better and stronger. The colour it left the bath was nice but that’s it. Besides fizzing and colour that’s all these bath cubes did. So it’s not something I would repurchase for myself. But for the price, the packaging and the amount of bath cubes you get it’s hard to complain (well, not for me it isn’t!). If you just want a cheap bath fizzer to throw in the bath or give as a gift to a bath bomb lover (not expert), then buy it, it’s only 59p! If, like me, you want more, give this a miss.

  • Feather & Down’s Sweet Dreams Bath & Shower Steamers

    Bath bombs are an incredibly popular bath product. They comes in various shapes, sizes and scents. So it’s no surprise people will purchase them as either a treat and a form of pampering, or a regular bath product. But not everyone has a bath, so can they experience something similar with something else? I picked up Feather & Down’s Sweet Dreams Bath & Shower Steamers from Home Bargains for 99p!

    Feather & Down’s Sweet Dreams Bath & Shower Steamers
    Why did I buy these?

    I know of this brand but I’ve never tried any of their products. They are designed to aide relaxation. I liked the idea of these being shower steamers, the packaging was striking and they were only 99p!

    What are these?

    Feather & Down’s Sweet Dreams Bath & Shower Steamers can be used in two different ways. They can be used as a traditional bath bomb where you pop it under warm running water. Or you can place it on the bottom of your bath/shower. The water and the heat making contact will release fragrance which contains lavender and chamomile oils.

    Packaging

    These bath and shower steamers come in a cardboard tube, dark blue in colour with gold detailing. The look of it is appealing. It’s practical in regards to how it’s housed and overall I really like it! The shower steamers (6) are individually shrink wrapped which is great because they are protected and you can open them up if and when needed to use.

    Fragrance

    Lightly lavender scented, so has a herbal, relaxing fragrance to it. it’s a little sweet so not too earthy and aromatherapy based and it’s really pleasant.

    How does the bath & shower steamer look?

    These look like giant sized tablets. Disc shaped, chunky and lilac coloured. On both sides the words feather & down are embossed into them.

    In the shower

    I placed one of these in the bath close to wear the shower was positioned above. I thought it would be an ideal place for some of the water to hit it and also for the heat to help push the fragrance too. Fragrance wise I didn’t get much. A faint whiff of it yes, and when I knelt down closer to the steamer I could smell it better but not by much. It dissolved slowly, which was what I expected and was very quick and easy to clean the bath out once finished.

    In the bath

    I treated these like a normal bath fizzer and placed it under warm, running water. The fragrance was there faintly (more so compared to using this in the shower). No foam but lots of fizz and it turned the water into the palest shade or purple known to man. The bath it created didn’t give me any form of wow factor so I threw in another one which didn’t add too much to it.

    I felt I was sat in slightly coloured and unbelievably light fragranced water. As a bath it did the bare minimum but added nothing to my bathing experience. The only thing that stuck out in my mind was the fact it didn’t irritate my skin or dry it out.

    Recommended?

    No. The packaging is great, the look of the steamers are ideal and even the fragrance is quite nice. But it didn’t deliver enough of a punch in both the shower and the bath. I expected the fragrance to be more intense than what it was especially for a shower steamer. And it didn’t create the relaxing bath I had hoped for. The only person this would benefit would be those who like their herbal, aromatherapy style scents but want something incredibly subtle and light in scent.

  • Marks & Spencer’s Affordable Rainbow Bath Fizzer

    When I think of the British store Marks & Spencer, the first thing I think about is food. They are well known for their food ranges, which although is quality can come at a price! But I never thought about them retailing bath and body products. They sell many, many items that don’t fall into the food or clothing category Including bath fizzers. I picked up Rainbow Bath Fizzer (along with a few others) at the end of August for 49p (reduced from £3.50)!

    Marks & Spencer’s Rainbow Bath Fizzer
    Why Did I Buy This?

    I went into the store dragging along two, miserable children looking for school shoes. We didn’t buy any but somehow I walked out with a handful of bath fizzers! This looked cute, I thought how ideal this (and others I grabbed) would be for gift giving and they had been reduced to only 49p!BARGAIN!

    How does Rainbow Bath Fizzer look?

    Like a rainbow! This is a generous sized bath fizzer which nearly covers the palm of my hand. Rainbow shaped, with three colours visible on the top of it, which is pink, pale pink and green. Looking more closely at this there are tiny speckles of dark pink running all the way through it. The texture is typical bath fizzer/bomb like, solid and hard with a chalky feel to it.

    Marks & Spencer’s Rainbow Bath Fizzers (and others!)
    Fragrance

    Slightly sweet in smell thanks to vanilla. There’s also a perfume like hint to it, like a soft musk, incensy scent. Makes sense as the shrink wrapping that covered this bath fizzer mentioned the fragrance to be vanilla, amber and sandalwood.

    In the bath

    I placed this bath fizzer on top of an already run, warm bath and as soon as it hit the water it fizzed and released colour. The main colour it spewed out was pink. Along with the colour was a little froth and foam. This bath fizzer wouldn’t sitting still for a second and danced and twirled around in the bath for at least 5 minutes. Once the smallest piece of bath fizzer disappeared it left a sea of pink.

    The bath water didn’t stay the soft purply/pink hue it turned into for long. I noticed the colour (and foam) pretty much disappeared once I got into the bath. Fragrance wise it was quite light when I first put this in the bath, but when I got in I couldn’t pick it up at all.

    Being in the bath was nothing special. I even added some bath soak as I felt as if I was just sat in plain water. But there was no drying out of the skin, no irritation, no issues in that way.

    Recommended?

    I haven’t seen this particular Rainbow Bath Fizzer sold in store again, so I assume that stock has gone to sale heaven. What this has done is made me very open minded to try out other bath and body products from Marks & Spencer because this wasn’t a bad product at all. Could it have been better? Yes. I would have liked a more obvious, stronger fragrance and the colour of the bath water to last longer. But this was great in size and look, performed fabulously in the bath and didn’t irritate my skin (which has been very up and down for me recently). For the price I paid, perfect little stocking/gift fillers. Children, teens would like this and probably some adults too. So not my favourite bath product of all time but definitely NOT the worst. Would I buy this again? Yes, as gifts. For myself? No because I’m incredibly picky with bath bombs/fizzers, that’s just me.

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