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.
Sales. There’s something very satisfying and smug worthy about picking up items in a sale. Saving money is something no one should be ashamed of, especially in our current economy. Boots in the UK over the last few weeks have had lots of products in store reduced to clearance prices, including Treacle Moon’s Peace In A Flower Body Scrub. How much did it cost and what is it like?
Treacle Moon’s Peace In A Flower Body Scrub
Usual Price vs Clearance Price
I couldn’t see the usual price in Boots for this product. But direct from Treacle Moon this body scrub is £3.00. Not expensive at all. BUT on clearance in Boots this cost me only 75p!
Packaging
This body scrub comes in a clear plastic flip top tube. You can see the product inside and the labelling is sweet, very in keeping with the name and fragrance of this product. On a practical level, easy to use and easy to store in any bathroom.
Look, consistency & texture
Treacle Moon’s Peace In A Flower Body Scrub is soft pink in colour with visible tiny brown specks throughout it. It’s squeezable, and comes out fluid but it’s not loose. The best way I can describe how thick it is is it’s similar to a body lotion.
Fragrance
Feminine, floral, very pretty with a slight powdery smell to it. Floral can be quite old fashioned if not done well but this would appeal to a variety of different ages.
On the body
Applied on damp skin, I used a generous amount of this to make sure I was covered from neck to feet. There’s enough scrub pieces in this to feel it on the skin, and for it to do the work its designed to do. Also the ‘bits’ weren’t too big where it could be rough and damage the skin. Very easy to apply and wash off, leaving the skin feeling lightly moisturised, and feeling soft and smooth.
For me, the fragrance was the best bit, it’s beautiful. It made applying this scrub a pleasure not a chore. The fragrance is the perfect spring fragrance because of the floral aspect it has.
Recommended?
This is a good scrub! It does what it’s supposed to do to the body, its easy and enjoyable to use and the fragrance is perfect. I’ve used other Treacle Moon scrubs and I’ve found that at least one was more moisturising than this one. So if I could change anything about this product I would like it to be more moisturising during use and after. But for 75p it’s a no-brainer! If you see it at this price or less buy it! Even if you’re not a fan of floral fragrances, this would make part of a great gift for someone e.g Mother’s Day, birthdays etc.
This year hasn’t been a year of subscription boxes for me. Normally I’m a regular buyer of them but less so in 2024 (lets just say it’s been an expensive year!). But I have treated myself to bath, body and home fragrance businessGlow’sNovemberAND December Subscription Boxes. I boughtNovember’sbecause it was Christmas inspired wax melts and December’s because it contained bath and body products, which I’ve been waiting for. So what did I get in December’s box of bath and body goodies?
Glow’s December Bath & Body Subscription Box
Jolly Holly Christmas Hand Wash
A fun alternative to a liquid hand wash in the form of a foaming one. Use in the same was as the traditional version, its just a different consistency. Jolly Holly Christmas Hand Wash is a seasonally fragranced product, scented with red apple, pear rhubarb, nectarine, cinnamon, caramelised sugar and vanilla.
Jolly Holly Christmas Hand Wash
Silver Sparkle Body Wash
This body wash looks and sounds special. Firstly, it literally sparkles, thanks to it shimmering with fine silver glitter/pigment. Secondly, the fragrance sounds very earthy and almost aromatherapy based which is lavender, lime, rosemary and eucalyptus. And thirdly, this product is part of Glow’sLotions and Potions sub range, which focuses on products being chemical free and more naturally based.
Silver Sparkle Body Wash
Chocolate Orange Soap Sponge
Soap sponges are an easy way to wash the body. Already impregnated with soap and fragrance, these are brilliant for everyday use and gifting. The one I received was Chocolate Orange, which is the perfect scent for Winter and Christmas, with its mouth watering chocolate and zesty orange notes.
Chocolate Orange Soap Sponge
Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub
Containing moisturising sweet almond oil and glycerin, this sugar scrub will make a welcome addition to my bathing routine this winter. It looks so inviting with it’s rich, creamy, almost dessert like texture, speckled with fine exfoliating pieces. The fragrance of Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread intrigues me because this is quite a combination of seasonal scents, but will they work together?
Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub
Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar
If you want to go a step further than a bath bomb, a bubble bar is the best product to try. Moisturising, slightly foaming, fragrant, these are one of my favourite bath products ever! And that’s why I was excited to see Spiced Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar in this subscription box. This is a decent size and could easily provide 2 baths. Perfect partner to use alongside the scrub as they are in the same fragrance.
Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar
Cosy Blanket Room Spray
Room sprays are a form of home fragrance I’ve been using often over the last few months to provide a quick spritz of fragrance in rooms. Cosy Blanket Room Spray is a mix of vanilla, amber and citrus. So this should be a very comforting and warming fragrance.
Cosy Blanket Room Spray
Extras
Glow’s subscription boxes wouldn’t be a Glow subscription box without extras! The extras included in this months were a Christmas printed scarf, a brooch, a Christmas bell and individually wrapped chocolates and jelly beans.
First impressions?
This is a great mix of products for the bath, shower, body and even the home. Fragrances are very festive, all full sized products, products look really inviting in regards to textures and colours and the value of what I’ve received is exceptional! This subscription box cost £25.00 (including p&p) for 6 full sized products, which works out just over £4.00 each. All hand made and packaged with love and care.
Subscription boxes are limited in availability and once gone are gone, but all the products I’ve mentioned ARE available on Glow’s website here. Literally a one stop shop for all your body, bath and home fragrance needs.
It may be edging towards the end of Summer, but Aldi have dropped some new Lacura body care products in store that will make you think we’re at the beginning of this season not the end. So what Summer inspired products do they have for the body but on a budget?
New body care products in Aldi
Lacura’s Tropical Essence Body Scrub
Sweet vanilla & salted caramel in fragrance, Lacura’s Tropical Essence Body Scrub will exfoliate, moisturise and scent the skin. 220g for £3.99.
Lacura’s Tropical Essence Body Scrub
Lacura’s Tropical Essence Hand Cream
Containing Cupuacu Butter, Shea Butter and Brazil Nut Oil, Lacura’s Tropical Essence Hand Cream is designed to moisturise without being tacky. Sweet vanilla & salted caramel scented. Perfect for everyday use. £2.99 for 100ml.
Lacura’s Tropical Essence Hand Cream
Lacura’s Tropical Essence Foot Cream
Similar formula to the hand cream, moisturising but not greasy and scented the same as the hand cream and scrub. Contains Cupuacu Butter, Coconut Oil & Acai Oil. £2.99 for 100ml.
Lacura’s Tropical Essence Foot Cream
Lacura’s Self Tan Bronzing Mousse
Dries in 60 seconds, easy and even application, Lacura’s Self Tan Bronzing Mousse come in light, medium and dark shades. £3.49 for 150ml.
Lacura’s Self Tan Bronzing Mousse
Believe it or not there were MORE products I saw in Aldi but too many to note down, including hair products and beauty supplements. As always, check your local store sooner rather than later because one minute products are there and then they are gone!
