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  • 5 Black Friday Deals on Wax Melts, Bath/Body & Skincare Products

    Is there such a thing as a Black Friday sale? I feel like Black Friday lasts about 2 weeks, so maybe a Black Fortnight? It’s not such a bad thing. If what’s up for grabs are things customers want and are genuinely good buys in regards to cost and quality, then why not? So I thought I would create a short but hopefully helpful post highlighting some Black Friday (or just general special offers ) deals available from now and over the next few days. All focusing on products or/brands I’ve used before. *Photographs in post are for illustration purposes only, not necessarily products included in sales. But they are images of products I’ve bought, gifted, used and reviewed in the past relating to the brands (links to those are right at the bottom).

    Wax Melts & Candles

    Pretty Home Aromas. Love this wax melt company because their wax melts are designed beautifully with fragrances to match! Their Black Friday deal is 30% off everything on their website with free delivery of a £20 spend or over. This deal is available starting from Friday 26th November until midnight Monday 29th November.

    Pretty Home Aromas Autumn Wax Melt Collection

    Mulberry Lane. Still on the look out for an alternative advent calendar? A wax melt lover? Mulberry Lane have 40% off their advent calendars while stocks last or till offer ends on the 30th November. 25 wax melts each 20g will provide hours of fragrance and a massive variety of fragrances to try out. Use code ADVENT40 to apply the discount.

    Mrs Mac Candles. Wax melts and candles galore! Almost everything is discounted on their website with their cheapest wax melts priced at 44p! I’ve had a look and the variety of fragrances available at a lowered price is brilliant. From Christmas to fruity fragrances and perfume inspired scents, there’s something for everyone. No code needed, discount already visible and applied.

    Mrs Mac Candles Hot Apple Pie Wax Melts
    Bath & Body Products

    Miss Patisserie. This range have their products available not only direct from themselves but various online and instore retailers. On ASOS all their products from bath bomb to bath slabs are discounted up to 40%.

    Miss Patisserie’s Salted Caramel Bath Slab

    Superdrug. In my opinion Superdrug have great offers all year round. I can always find something I want to buy on a weekly basis AND save some money too! Two things have stuck out for me with their current deals. Bloom Drum Gift Set which contains 5 different body and fragrance products including an eau de toilette is a fab gift idea. Down from £20.00 to £10.00. BUT the one that I’m gagging to purchase myself is a stonker of a deal! Superdrug’s Vitamin E Bumper Gift Set contains EVERYTHING you need for a full facial skincare routine. Cleanser, scrub, serum, facial mist, moisturisers, everything! And from what I can see they are all full sizes. Price? Down from £30.00 to £15.00.

    Superdrug’s Bloom Body Mists

    Hopefully these ideas won’t give your credit card too much heat, but please shop responsibility! Offers and prices may change at any time, so please bare this in mind as the above is correct at the time of writing this post. If you haven’t used any of these brands or products before, and looking for some reviews…guess what? I have some below for you to read at your own leisure! Happy shopping people!x

    Pretty Home Aromas Wax Melt Autumn Bundle

    Pretty Home Aromas Cosy Cuddles 80g Wax Melt Segmented Pot

    Mulberry Lane’s Cocoa Butter Soy Wax Melt Pot

    Mrs Mac Candles Hot Apple Pie Wax Melts

    Miss Patisserie’s Salted Caramel Bath Slab

    Superdrug’s Bloom Driftwood & Sea Salt Body Mist

    Superdrug’s Vitamin E Nourishing Eye Cream

  • Sanctuary Spa Salt Scrub

    When it comes to looking after the skin on the body, there is nothing more satisfying than using a body scrub. The texture, fragrance, the feel of it on the skin is something I personally adore. The best bit for many though is the end result. How the skin feels, all soft and smooth should make anyone feel better about their body. So it will come as no surprise that I have a collection of body scrubs in my beauty stash, but I’ve decided to use Sanctuary Spa Salt Scrub for a late afternoon pampering session. This was part of a gift collection I received from a friend many moons ago.

    Sanctuary Spa Salt Scrub

    Why this one?

    I’ve had this hidden away too long! This little packet of goodness has been neglected just as much as my skin! I never miss my body moisturising stage as I do it twice a day, but scrubs I definitely could be more consistent with using e.g once or twice a week. I love using them but I forget why I do until I get back into using them again, if that makes sense? But this scrub I wanted to use because dare I say I have NEVER actually used anything from this brand before!

    What is this supposed to do?

    This body scrub is designed to polish and moisturise the body during and after use.

    Packaging.

    The salt scrub I received was travel sized and not in it’s standard packaging, so came in a handy sachet. In this sachet contained 60g of product. The range itself seems to focus on certain colours such as oranges, golds and white which is reflected on how this looks.

    Fragrance.

    Absolutely divine! I’ve never been to a spa but this is how I imagine one to smell like along with it’s products! This should be quite a heavy fragrance but it’s not. Why? Because it has some pretty punchy elements to it. Think of your incense type smells like patchouli and sandalwood, which this has in it. It’s full of body but doesn’t come across strong and masculine because it has an uplifting sweetness to it. There’s the tiniest bit of floral in there as well. Overall, a beautiful scent which is incredibly relaxing for me, and screams pamper time!

    Texture.

    White, small but not too small crystal looking salt pieces. Similar in size and as you can imagine a touch rough because of what they are. These are in an oil base but to look at them and to feel them that isn’t the first thing you think of. It doesn’t look or feel greasy or oily in the traditional sense. But does remind me of feeling damp sand, but of course more clumpy with the salts in it.

    In the shower/bath.

    I first had a shower. I’m lazy, and sometimes want to head into using something like this first, but I opted on a shower because I’m a good girl. This meant my skin was perfectly clean and still damp. I rubbed the salts all over myself, and I used just over two thirds of the sachet. Easy to use, I probably overdone it force wise as I was a little rough and heavy hande, but no damage caused. I could feel the exfoliating action, I could feel the salts on my skin. And they felt the right amount and size for the job at hand.

    While I was using them, the thought popped into my head that these would be even better if they were more oil based. The scent was there and fabulous, my skin felt as if it was being exfoliated well, but not much oil? But what I did after using this made me go 360 because once finished I slipped into a nearly full bath. Oh my goodness! It may not have felt oily but by God when I got into that tub my skin felt AMAZING! In the water it felt so smooth, so soft, so moisturised. Definitely a body treatment rather than just a body product. And I lay in the bath basking in it’s glory for what felt like hours!

    Out of the bath.

    My skin didn’t look massively different except it looked hydrated. No dryness in look or feel, not shiny but looked healthy. And it FELT it too. Did I need to put on a body lotion? Nope! Touching my skin it was as if I already had put something on, something oil based as I could feel it. But I always follow with a body lotion so I didn’t need it but used it anyway. So smooth, supple, soft…oh and before I forget lightly fragranced!

    Sanctuary Spa Body Range

    Recommended?

    Honestly, I didn’t think this scrub would be as good as it was. I thought it would be nice to use, but didn’t think it would be great to use and it was! Easy and enjoyable in application. But for me it transformed and the quality of it shone through, when I was in the bath. So massive thumbs up from me I love this! And great for those people who suffer from dry skin and need a moisturising scrub but not an oily one.

    The brand itself is so easy to purchase as it’s available from so many places instore and online e.g Boots, Superdrug, Amazon and direct from Sanctuary Spa themselves ( just to name a few ). Prices start from £13.00 for the 650g full size of this Goddess like scrub. The sachet currently seems to be available in sets rather than singular, but worthwhile checking for availability on it’s own if you want to try it first before paying for the full size version.

  • Chloe’s Make Up Ari Grand Soap Sponge

    Shower/bath gels and creams. Soaps. Is that all that’s available to clean ourselves with in the shower or/and bath? Nope! These are the standard products you can pick up in your local supermarket and discount store. Even a body/skincare company/shop will sell these. Everywhere sells them! But what other products are there to use? Quite a few you may or may not be aware of, but one is a soap sponge. Soap sponges are something I’ve been using for the past few years, and I was lucky enough to receive a selection from Chloe’s Make Up as a competition prize last year. My first soap sponge I used was called Ari Grand.

    Chloe’s Make Up Ari Grande Soap Sponge

    What’s a soap sponge? Most people will use a sponge in the shower or bath, and add something onto it like a shower gel to it to wash their body with. A soap sponge already has this infused into it so shower, or bathe and go!

    Why did I go for this one? I gifted some of these to friends as I like sharing the love, so only had two left. This one is inspired by a perfume fragrance and although I’m not familiar with the actual fragrance itself, I guessed it would be quite pretty in scent and highly enjoyable to use.

    Appearance. This looks like any other soap sponge. As long as my hand, slightly rounded edges but rectangular in shape. One side is smooth and the other has the exfoliating lumps and bumps which you will either love and use a lot, or avoid! Pale pink in colour, and came plastic wrapped with company and fragrance name on the front, and ingredients and other details on the back.

    Scent. Beautiful! Definitely a youthful feminine floral which has a slight sweetness to it ( think of how marshmallows smells like or similar ) with a hint of a powdery note thrown in there too.

    Texture. Before use don’t be alarmed to find this to be very solid. It’s not soft sponge like, like the normal ones you pick up from the shop. So be warned it’s more brick than anything else.

    How to use and how to look after it. As you would use a normal sponge but see below in regards to my experience. Once used leave to dry out, don’t allow it to remain wet when not in use.

    In the shower. Think of a raisin and you want it to become a plump grape, it needs hydrating. This needs to be in contact with water. I let the water from my shower soak into it. That’s when the texture started to change and it becomes less hard and slightly softer. As it got softer this is when I started to use this as I would a normal sponge, and it lathered up brilliantly. Soft, white, cream like bubbles came from it so after a short amount of time I was covered in the stuff! The scent was there throughout, and it was super easy to rinse off leaving my skin feeling soft, clean and ready to continue with my day.

    On the skin. No issues in regards to dryness, irritation etc. I didn’t expect this to be moisture giving as I don’t think it’s quite that type of product, but it didn’t strip me of moisture. What it did do, was really REALLY clean my skin! After using this I ran a bath so I could soak into it straight away, and I saw dirt! I didn’t think I needed a scrub so badly but I obviously did.

    Recommended? I LOVE SOAP SPONGES so its a yes from me! I like how much foam this produced, I loved the scent. And I loved how effective this was in regards to cleaning my skin which is important. General use, gift ideas, this gets a thumbs up. How many uses this has I honestly can’t tell you because I mix up my bath and shower products regularly. But at a guess easily up to 2 weeks if not longer. A really good quality soap sponge that ticks every box for me.

    £3.50 is what this designer scented soap sponge costs which is fantastic value for this type of item. Want to wash like a Pop Princess? Visit the website here for am affordable piece of bathing luxury!