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  • Dirty Works Skin & Body Care Products for 59p?

    To get the most out of your money in today’s society is hard! Most people will agree that to get value these days isn’t as easy as it used to be. You just have to know where to look. As a lover of bath, body and skincare products I always keep an eye out for products at great prices. That’s why I was pleased to find a brand called Dirty Works in Home Bargains, where each of their products was only 59p! So what was available?

    Dirty Works Skin & Body Care Products for 59p
    Cube Tropicana Fizzy Bath Cubes

    This is a sizeable, rectangular shaped bar made up of 8 segmented cubes which you snap off to use in the bath. Think of a bath fizzer/bath bomb that’s bar shaped, chunky and chalky in texture. Nicely packaged in a box where you can see part of the bath cubes through a clear window.

    Cube Tropicana Fizzy Bath Cubes
    Hand it Over Coconut Hand Cream

    Containing coconut and jojoba oil, this hand cream is supposed to be moisturising without being heavy, so easy and quick to apply. Tropical in scent so pleasant to use.

    Hand it Over Coconut Hand Cream
    Smooth Walker Foot Butter

    Like any foot product, Smooth Walk Foot Butter helps to moisturise and hydrate dry feet. Containing sweet almond oil and shea butter, this should be a heavier, richer texture for feet that need it. The addition of tea tree and peppermint oil should give not only a slight cooling effect but be a natural deodoriser too!

    Smooth Walker Foot Butter
    Stop Puffy Eyes Eye Cream

    Stop Puffy Eyes Eye Cream is supposed to help freshen and brighten the under eye area by making it look less tired and puffy. Containing shea butter and caffeine, this eye cream should not only wake up the under eye area but moisturise it too.

    Stop Puffy Eyes Eye Cream
    Easy on the Eyes Soothing Cucumber Eye Pads

    Easy on the Eyes contains 10 pairs of eye pads. Infused with aloe vera, these are designed to be soothing and calming to the eye area. Perfect for those who want pampering and to give the eye area a temporary quick fix to look and feel better.

    Easy on the Eyes Soothing Cucumber Eye Pads

    These products won’t be for everyone or every age. It depends on what you’re looking for in your skin and body care products. But for how much they cost these are cheap and so affordable! For the price, the packaging and the types of products these are they are worth a little splurge if you find them in your local Home Bargains.

  • Glow’s Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub

    Why is a body scrub a good body care product to use? It’s a simple, pampering and an effective product which can immediately improve the look and feel of the skin. It gets rid of dead and dry skin, smooths it out and improves the overall condition of it. Perfect step after cleaning the skin and before applying a moisturiser product. Do I love a body scrub? Yes. Do I use one often? No. Am I using one currently? Yes I am! I’m using Glow’s Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub that was a part of their December Subscription Box. What is it like?

    Glow’s Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub
    Packaging

    150g of scrub comes in a clear, plastic pot. It’s not an exciting form of packaging look wise but it’s practical, sturdy and you can see the product inside it.

    How does it look?

    Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub is a cute shade of soft pink. It looks rich and decadent, not totally smooth because there’s tiny sugar particles in it. It looks almost solid but it isn’t. Firm but soft.

    Fragrance

    I experienced this fragrance in the Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar and this is exactly the same scent. Spicy in a cinnamon warming type of way, with a hint of cooling, fresh mint with a slight bakery smell. I had my doubts whether this fragrance would work because there’s a lot going on but the more I smell it the more I love it!

    On the skin

    I used a fingertip of scrub on each body part. I made sure my skin was damp, and this rubbed over my skin like a dream. This almost melted while applying it. It became softer and created what I call a little ‘froth’ on the skin. I could feel the sugar in it because the sugar particles were the perfect size. Not too small where they wouldn’t do anything and not too big that they didn’t exfoliate. I could feel the exfoliating action and didn’t need to apply too much pressure. Easy to rinse off the skin. Using this while in the bath turned the water cloudy in an almost milk bath treatment way.

    The fragrance of this is TO DIE FOR! This really made my bathroom smell good and I enjoyed using this product, not only because of the texture but because of the fragrance too.

    My skin after using this, when dry, was incredibly soft and smooth. I noticed this while applying body lotion and also found my skin was lightly scented with the scrub’s fragrance.

    Glow’s December Subscription Box
    Recommended?

    Glow’s Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub is a beautiful body product. The fragrance is seasonal, unusual and VERY good, the consistency of this product is perfect and it does what it’s designed to do on the skin. This body scrub NEEDS to be bought so totally recommended! Fragrance is a personal choice and Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread will be loved by many but not all, so there are other fragrance options to choose from. All scrubs are 150ml, cost only £3.50 each and available here.

  • New Sol de Janerio Dupes In Home Bargains!

    I don’t think consumers are tired of dupes on the high street are they? Everywhere you go, every supermarket you enter or store you shop in there will be some fragrance, body product or hand wash ‘inspired’ by a well known product or brand. And just in time for Christmas, discount store Home Bargains has dropped some new Sol de Janerio dupes. So what have they got?

    New Sol de Janerio Dupes In Home Bargains!
    Santa de Cruz Travel Gift Sets

    These travel sets all contain 4 pieces which included:

    • A 30g body cream.
    • 40ml body spritz.
    • 90ml body wash.
    • Body puff.

    Three versions of this set are available, with each having their own fragrance of:

    • Vanilla Almond & Salted Caramel.
    • Cherry Blossom & Sweet Pea.
    • Pink Lychee & Dragon Fruit.

    These sets costs £3.99 each and come in their own clear zipped bags.

    Vanilla Almond & Salted Caramel Travel Gift Set
    Santa de Cruz 3 Fragranced Body Spritz Gift Set

    This set of 3 40ml body spritz come in the same fragrances as the travel sets, which is Vanilla Almond & Salted Caramel, Cherry Blossom & Sweet Plum and Pink Lychee & Dragon Fruit. These come boxed and cost £2.99.

    Santa de Cruz 3 Fragranced Body Spritz Gift Set
    First impressions?

    These are good looking sets at great prices. The travel set is very attractively presented. The body spritz set I thought could have stood out more when it comes to the packaging but it still does the job. The fragrances and look of these products do have a resemblance to products in the Sol de Janerio brand, which isn’t hard to miss. Are these good dupes? Can’t answer that in regards to how these products perform compared to the ‘real’ counterparts. What I would say is expect some similarities e.g look and scents, but don’t expect exact copies.

    Availabilty

    As usual, who knows how soon all stores will get this range, how much stock will be available or how long these will last. But with Christmas around the corner, if these are Christmas gifts or stocking fillers you want, buy them sooner rather than later!

  • Give The Gift of Olee Cosmetics Whipped Soaps

    Cleaning the skin on our bodies isn’t the most interesting or exciting thing to do. It’s a daily task which most of us don’t think about. But there’s so many different types of products we can use that can take bathing to a slightly more indulgent level, especially when our bodies are crying out for more moisturising during the colder seasons. A quick and easy product to use is whipped soaps. I haven’t bought any recently but I did win two in a competition from a company called Olee Cosmetics. I received Vibe & Pink Candy Whipped Soaps 30ml each in size. So what are they like?

    Olee Cosmetics Whipped Soaps
    What is a whipped soap?

    A whipped soap is a product you wash the body with. It’s a rich, thick formulation which you apply to damp skin and cleanses it like a bar of soap or shower/bath gel. It normally contains an ingredient which is highly moisturising, such as coconut oil, shea butter etc. So it won’t strip the skin and will leave it soft, smooth and lightly moisturised after use.

    Olee Cosmetics Vibe & Pink Candy – Packaging

    Both of these whipped soaps are housed in small, lidded tins. Slightly bigger than a lip balm tin. Very cute and I can see this being perfect to travel with.

    How do they look?

    Both look the same but coloured differently. You can tell they’ve been whipped into these tins because of the pattern/shapes these are in. They look solid, no movement to them and very glossy in appearance. Vibe’s colouring is almost sweetie like, rhubarb and custard, because it’s a mixed swirl of soft pink and yellow. Pink Candy is a bright bubble gum pink, with both of these whipped soaps glistening with some form of pigment on the top. Beautiful!

    Fragrance

    Vibe has a tropical, fruity scent to it. Very Summery and quite mouth watering. Pink Candy smells just like baby lotion, so fresh, clean and would be loved by anyone and everyone.

    Consistency & texture

    These look soft in texture like whipped cream. But placing my finger in these whipped soaps, they’re quite solid. Very similar to the texture of a cleansing balm where at first its solid, and then it melts. Except this doesn’t melt like a balm. It does become softer but it still has hold until you either rub it into your skin or onto a sponge.

    In the shower & bath

    A finger tip of Pink Candy was enough to wash my whole body, so not much needed product wise. I scooped it out, placed it on a wet sponge, rubbed it in and used! The whipped soap created a sponge full of creamy foam (rather than bubbles) which felt great on the skin and very luxurious.

    Skin felt clean and well moisturised after use and lightly fragranced. This was a decadent way of cleaning the skin on my body. Perfect for people with drier skin, people who love their products with texture and for those who see bathing as a pleasure not as a chore.

    Recommended?

    I love these whipped soaps for lots of different reasons. The packaging is cute and practical and great for travel or to sample the product. Look and texture of these whipped soaps is so inviting and beautifully made. The product does what its designed to do and is a joy to use with both Vibe and Pink Candy gorgeous in fragrance. Recommended? Yes. Great for stocking fillers? Definitely! Perfect for travel? Absolutely.

    Fancy purchasing this? There’s different fragrances and sizes available. The 30ml tin costs £3.00, 150ml £8.99 and 200ml £12.00. Visit the website here to buy.