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  • New Skincare In Home Bargains!

    If you love skincare, you will love seeing affordable and branded products in discount stores like Home Bargains. Skincare products vary in price, but those with a good eye will know a good deal when they see one. That’s why discount stores selling skincare is a popular way to buy these items. You never know what will land on a shelf and for how little. I visited my local Home Bargains store to see if I could spot anything new and budget friendly, and these are the skincare products I found:

    New skincare in Home Bargains!
    Nivea’s Luminous Skin Glow Daily Liquid Exfoliant

    Exfoliants containing granules are still on the market, but a more popular version is gentle acid based liquid exfoliants. Nivea’s Luminous Skin Glow Daily Liquid Exfoliant is that type of exfoliant which helps to improve skin texture and tone, reduce pores and leave skin looking and feeling fresher. This product can be used daily, and doesn’t need to be washed off. Simple and quick to use. £3.99 for 100ml.

    Nivea’s Luminous Skin Glow Daily Liquid Exfoliant
    Pause & Glow Menopausal Skincare

    Not a brand I’ve ever seen or heard of, except in Home Bargains, but some women may find these products interesting. I’ve spotted the Cooling Relief Serum Roller, which needs to be rolled onto the skin. It provides a cooling and soothing effect thanks to the rolling action, and containing aloe vera. Another product from this brand is their Soothing Eye Serum, to help smooth and lift the under eye area. Cooling Relief Serum Roller is £2.99 for 30ml, and the Soothing Eye Serum £1.99 for 15ml.

    Pause & Glow Menopausal Skincare
    Pacifica’s Kale Dissolve Dark Spot Micro Patches

    Containing 4 micro needling patches, these help to improve the look of dark spots and hyperpigmentation thanks to ingredients including tranexamic acid, niacinamide and glycolic acid. Apply to clean skin and can be worn overnight, but must be left on for a minimum of 6 hours to be effective. £1.49.

    Pacifica’s Kale Dissolve Dark Spot Micro Patches
    Dr Paw Paw’s Hydrating Facial Mist

    This facial mist can be used in the morning and evening, and helps to freshen and hydrate the skin. Also, this mist is designed to help skin appear and feel smoother and look brighter with the help of hyaluronic acid and niacinamide. £1.99 for 100ml.

    Dr Paw Paw’s Hydrating Facial Mist
    Revolution Skincare London’s Sali Hughes Gel Quench Moisturiser

    A light weight but highly hydrating facial moisturiser that can be used in the morning and evening. Perfect for those who don’t like heavy textures, and those who have oily to combination skin. Some of the ingredients in this moisturiser include niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, plant peptides and glycerin. £1.99 for 60ml.

    Revolution Skincare London’s Sali Hughes Gel Quench Moisturiser

    So, what do you think of these finds? Tempting? All of these are budget friendly and I like the fact they’re different types of skincare products doing different things. Anything I want to buy myself? The dark spot patches. These would be useful for me as I suffer from spots that lead to hyperpigmentation, so would be curious to see if these would work…so lets see?

  • 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.

  • Affordable Skincare Products In Lidl For Under £1.20

    Taking care of the skin on our face is something we all do. Whether it’s a simple splash, wash and go or a 10 step skincare routine, we have a skincare routine in the morning, evening or both. Whatever your idea of skincare products and routines are, we all use something, with many of us now not wanting (or can afford) to spend a fortune on these products. Supermarkets are a great place to find a variety of different skincare products. Some are branded, some are supermarket own labels, which means a better chance to buy skincare at affordable prices. I went into Lidl recently to see what they had in regards to everyday skincare products, and this is what I found:

    Lidl’s own brand budget skincare products
    Cien’s Moisturising Facial Wash

    Perfect for all skin types, but especially those with sensitive skin. This facial wash is supposed to be gentle, non stripping and an effective cleanser to be used morning and night. No added colour, fragrance and soap free, so this is the type of facial wash that could be used by all the family. 150ml £1.19.

    Cien’s Moisturising Facial Wash
    Cien’s Refreshing Facial Wash

    Has the same benefits as the Moisturising Wash, but I suspect not as moisturising in feel and has a different texture while being used on the skin. Could this be better for those who have a more shiny, oily feel? Or for the guys? Either way it’s an alternative offering for a facial wash. 150ml for £1.19.

    Cien’s Refreshing Facial Wash
    Cien’s Smoothing Facial Scrub

    This product is geared towards a more normal to dry and normal to combination skin type. So although meant to gently exfoliate the skin leaving it softer, smoother and fresher, this shouldn’t (hopefully) leave the skin feeling tight and dry. Soap, fragrance and colour free, this should be used once or twice a week depending on your skin type. 150ml for £1.19.

    Cien’s Smoothing Facial Scrub

    If you’re looking for basic formulas to do a simple job, these could be for you. No thrills, no fan fare, no mass of crazy active ingredients promising to give you a face lift. If these products look familiar I would say these are dupes for Simple Skincare products. Simple Skincare products delivery the same things these do, designed for sensitive skin and leaving out ingredients that can potentially cause irritation. But their products are a minimum of twice the price of Lidl’s own branded version. So the choice is yours which skincare range you want to buy!

    Are you tempted to try these? Or have you already got them in your bathroom and using them daily?

    New Skin Care Products In Lidl!

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    Cien’s Simple Dupe Refreshing Facial Wash

  • How Good Is Tiger Moon’s Vanilla Orchid Body Mist?

    I am NOT that person that needs anymore body mists. I have PLENTY. BUT occasionally, like a beacon, a body mist will call out to me, I cave, and I buy! It could be the packaging, the price, but most of the time the fragrance description is what draws me in. And this is why I bought Tiger Moon’s Vanilla Orchid Body Mist from ASDA. But is this any good?

    Tiger Moon’s Vanilla Orchid Body Mist
    Packaging

    I think there’s alot of body mists on the market that are ‘inspired’ by a certain well known brand and this body mist is one of them. This fragrance comes in a clear but tinted purple plastic spray topped bottle and finished off with a white lid. It’s not the most stylish looking body mist I’ve ever seen, or the best copy of THAT particular brand. But, it still caught my eye!

    Fragrance

    When I saw the words ‘Vanilla Orchid’ I had to stop and have a cheeky sniff, which I did. After smelling it I threw it straight into my basket. It has that sweet, creamy vanilla scent to it mixed in with light florals. This combination does give it a slightly exotic feel to it, it’s not heavy and it’s a stunner!

    Strength & longevity

    Strength starts off as a medium and lessens. But what I will say is it doesn’t totally disappear as I still get a hint of this at the end of the day, although it’s faint. So longevity not the best.

    Price & size

    This costs £2.48 for 100ml. Compared to similar products on the market it’s fair and still affordable. Size wise I wouldn’t want a body mist to be any smaller as there wouldn’t be much point. It will have a weaker formulation compared to an actual perfume, so this size means you can be generous with application.

    Recommended?

    YES! As a vanilla lover I love this! The mix between this and floral makes this smell pretty, feminine and for me it’s that type of scent I will smell it, inhale and smile. Which is what you want from a fragrance. You want to smell nice but you want to feel good wearing it and I feel good wearing this. Could it last longer and be stronger? Of course it could. But that’s what the extra spraying action is for! Despite this I would happily repurchase Tiger Moon’s Vanilla Orchid Body Mist.