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  • 3 Body Products For Under £3.00 In Home Bargains!

    Looking after the skin on our bodies is just as important as the skin on our faces. Thankfully, most of us don’t need a complicated 10 step body care routine. We wash our bodies, sometimes exfoliate and moisturise. Like skincare, body care products can be as simple or as luxurious as you like. But with body care products, many of us like to use this time to pamper ourselves. And thankfully, it doesn’t have to cost a fortune! Here are some affordable and budget friendly body care products found recently in my local Home Bargains:

    Body Products Under £3.00 in Home Bargains!
    Sor Bae Beauty’s Exfoliating Body Polishes

    I love body scrubs and I love texture in body care products, so this immediately jumped out off the shelf! I found 2 different versions of this body polish (although there maybe more). Coco Colada Creme, which is a mix of coconut and pineapple fragrance. Also Watermelon Sugar, which you guessed it, is watermelon fragranced. Both of these are body scrubs which are sugar based with shea butter. This means they should exfoliate the skin, the sugar particles should dissolve so won’t be aggressive and the added shea butter should help to moisturise. £2.99 for 300g.

    Sor Bae Beauty’s Exfoliating Body Polish
    Globetrotter’s Body Lotions

    Whooping 500ml body lotions in various fragrances, including Mykonos (Vanilla Sea Breeze) and Dubai (Guava Granita & Amber Sunsets). Containing ingredients including shea butter, sunflower seed oil and glycerin, these body lotions are fun in theme and economical to use. £1.99 for 500ml.

    Globetrotter’s Body Lotion
    Face Facts Body Butters

    These body butters have been in Home Bargains store on and off for months. They appear to sell well and come from quite a well known budget brand for skin and body care products. Containing sunflower seed oil and avocado oil, this should be a rich highly moisturising body product. £1.49 for 400ml.

    Face Facts Body Butter

    So, for under £3.00 you can pick up a body scrub, body lotion or body butter and have change left over! Everyday, affordable body care products.

  • New Body Products In Lidl!

    I don’t visit my local Lidl as often as I used to. Purely for the reasons of saving time and money if I’m honest! But I did go in last week to pick up a few items and found they had new body and skincare products available. So what did I find for the body and how much did they cost?

    New Body Care Products In Lidl!
    D’Avignon Cherry Blossom Body Lotion (Lidl own brand)

    This is the product that grabbed my attention first because it’s a L’Occitane en Provence dupe. 250ml of a floral, pretty scented body lotion which includes shea butter (second ingredient in the list so a good percentage included) and glycerin. This is marketed as a fragrant, light weight but moisturising product for the body. £3.99.

    Zen Botanics Luxury Handwash

    I saw only one fragrance of this hand wash, which was White Tea & Lotus Flower. The fragrance sounds clean, a little zesty but floral as well (bergamot, orange flower and grapefruit). This would be a great scent ready for spring and summer, and comes in a 245ml pump action bottle. £2.99.

    Zen Luxury Hand Lotion

    Perfect partner to the hand wash, as it comes in White Tea & Lotus and Jujube & Sacred Lotus. Both contain shea butter and glycerin so should be moisturising and protecting on the hands, especially after hand washing. Packaging wise, nicely presented but doesn’t quite match the hand wash in appearance. £2.99 for 195ml.

    Price promotions?

    Although these are priced very affordably, at the time of writing this post all three of these products were on a buy one get one free promotion, which is amazing! Great way to try new products, gift or to put away for future use.

    First impressions?

    These seem like a nice range of products. Packaging wise I think the body lotion looks the best, it looks more expensive than it is. The other products look ok but less memorable.

    The ingredients are what you would hope for and probably expect from products that cost more e.g shea butter, so good formulations.

    Overall, I’m happy to see these products sat on the shelves of Lidl. Would I buy any of these? Probably the body lotion! The scent (one was open I had a sniff!), the packaging and the amount of product were all ticks for me and I might need to go and buy it!

  • Affordable Dupe Alert! Aldi’s New Lacura Almond Body Care Range

    The supermarket Aldi never fail! Every few months there will be a new bath, body or skincare product that will catch your eye. It will look familiar but not identical to something that you’ve seen before. Give yourself a few seconds or minutes and you will figure out that Aldi have struck again with a dupe of a particular product or brand. The latest brand they’ve been ‘inspired’ by is L’Occitane En Provence and their almond body care range. So what has Aldi’s Lacura own brand released now?

    Aldi’s Lacura Almond Body Care Range
    Lacura’s Almond Body Scrub

    How this body scrub is packaged made me notice these three new products. One of the top ingredients in this scrub is shea butter. This should make this product a very nourishing and rich exfoliator, which is what you want at this time of year.

    Aldi’s Lacura Almondy Body Scrub
    Lacura’s Almond Cleansing Shower Oil

    A shower oil isn’t something you see on the high street often, but I can imagine this would be indulgent and soothing on the skin. Great for dry skin or perfect for someone who wants something different from a shower gel or cream.

    Aldi’s Lacura Shower Oil
    Lacura’s Nourishing Body Lotion

    With this being a lotion and not a cream I’m guessing this won’t be particularly thick. Perfect for those who want moisturising but with a lighter consistency and suitable for normal skin, possibly even dry.

    Aldi’s Lacura Almond Body Lotion
    What are they dupes of?

    I’m comparing the products from Aldi to the L’Occitane equivalent by product type and packaging, not ingredients. Remember these are more likely to be ‘inspired’ by and not copies so there will be differences:

    Lacura’s Almond Shower Scrub 200ml – L’Occitane En Provence Almond Shower Scrub 250ml £21.50.

    Lacura’s Cleansing Shower Oil 200ml £4.99 – L’Occitane En Provence’s Almond Shower Oil 250ml £19.50.

    Lacura’s Almond Body Lotion 200ml £4.99 – L’Occitane En Provence’s Almond Milk Concentrate 200ml £44.00 or L’Occitane En Provence’s Almond Milk Veil 240ml £34.50.

    Recommended?

    How good these products are, their smells and textures I can’t comment on because I haven’t bought and used them. But in the past I have used at least one of their L’Occitane counterparts. Packaging wise the Lacura products look great, very stylish and VERY similar to the L’Occitane versions. Size wise these are decent and quite standard although smaller than L’Occitane’s. But the price difference is INSANE! I would definitely give this range a go and I think these make perfect Christmas gift ideas or stocking fillers. Even the type of products these are and it being an almond range is perfect for this time of year. Question is, how long will it take for these to disappear from stores?

  • My Top 8 Products of 2022

    My love for bath, body, skincare and home fragrance products didn’t change in 2022. In fact, it just got bigger (along with my stash)! I used lots and lots of products but which ones were my favourites in 2022? In no particular order….

    Simple’s 5 Minute Reset Hydrogel Mask

    Relaxing, soothing, hydrating, kind to the skin and really enjoyable to use, Simple’s 5 Minute Reset Hydrogel Mask is something I would repeat purchase time and time again.

    Simple’s 5 Minute Reset Hydrogel Mask
    Palmer’s Coconut Oil Body Lotion

    I have no idea why it took me so long to buy Palmer’s Coconut Oil Body Lotion but when I did and used it I loved it! Beautifully fragrant, moisturising without being greasy and left my skin very happy.

    Palmer’s Coconut Oil Body Lotion
    Aldi’s Lacura Exfoliating Foot Scrub

    Feet need to be looked after too, and for under £5.00 Aldi’s Lacura Exfoliating Foot Scrub gave my unloved feet exactly what they needed. This was an effective but not harsh exfoliator, moisturising at the same time and had a pleasant minty fragrance.

    Aldi’s Lacura Exfoliating Foot Scrub
    Palmer’s Coconut Oil Balm

    Another winning product from their Coconut range. Palmer’s Coconut Oil Balm is one of those multi-purpose products that I used often. On the heels of my feet and on my lips have been the main areas (and driest) of my body that has literally sucked this up.

    Palmer’s Coconut Oil Balm
    Scentsy’s Hibiscus Pineapple Sugar Scrub

    Scentsy’s Hibiscus Pineapple Sugar Scrub was an absolute revelation to me. A mouth watering tropical fragranced scrub with a heavenly texture. This left my skin feeling so soft and smooth I could have cried when this finished! Not cheap, so this would only be a repeat purchase if on sale unfortunately.

    Scentsy’s Hibiscus Pineapple Sugar Scrub
    Superdrug’s Vitamin E All Over Body Cream with Lavender

    If you want an unusual but fabulous scented body lotion which is incredibly moisturising, Superdrug’s Vitamin E All Over Body Cream with Lavender is the one! This fragrance really is so relaxing and a great twist on the fragrance of lavender.

    Superdrug’s Vitamin E All Over Body Cream with Lavender
    Glow’s Cafe Coffee Inspired Wax Melts

    I like things to take me by surprise and one thing that did was coffee scented wax melts! This fragrance has never been on my radar but Glow’s Cafe Coffee Inspired Wax Melts (which were gifted, they were a competition win) were stunning! Cosy, homely, comforting and the perfect Autumn/Winter scent to fragrance the home.

    Glow’s Cafe Coffee Wax Melt Pots
    Lush’s Sleepy Bear Bath Bomb

    The love I have for Lush’s Sleepy Bear Bath Bomb is massive. My body enjoyed it, my mind found it relaxing and nostrils lapped up it’s gorgeous scent! Perfection.

    Lush’s Sleepy Bear Bath Bomb

    So that was my top 8 favourite products of 2022, what were yours?