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  • How Good is a 49p Wax Melt From Home Bargains?

    So many people love using wax melts. They’re such a good way to fragrance a room and home, with a huge variety of fragrances and wax forms available everywhere. The good thing about them is on the whole they aren’t expensive and are really affordable. One of the cheapest wax melts I’ve bought was James & Co Fragrance’s Berries Wax Melt from Home Bargains for only 49p! How did I find it?

    James & Co Fragrance Berries Wax Melt
    Packaging

    Berries Wax Melt comes in a small, cardboard box with an opening on the front so you can see the wax. I like the fact this is cardboard and not plastic. It looks good and is different to the usual packaging wax melts come in.

    The wax itself

    This wax melt comes as a wax melt snap bar. Purple in colour, chunky and made up of 6 segments that need to be snapped off for use.

    Fragrance

    This is a mix of sweet fruity berries. Quite simple in scent and predictable, but nice.

    Strength & Longevity

    I used two of these segments in a wax warmer in the hallway. Once melted, the area got the scent coming through, but it wasn’t particularly strong. So I would say strength is low. Longevity wise it wasn’t fully tested to be honest. Since the strength wasn’t there and the fragrance wasn’t too obvious, I simply turned my wax warmer off. The scent was nice but not strong enough to stay on for my needs.

    Recommended?

    Price and packaging wise this is a great wax melt. The wax melt itself has a good scent to it but honestly I’ve smelt better and stronger. Would I buy this again or recommend it? No, not in this fragrance. But I would happily try another fragrance to see if the strength comes through better.

  • 3 Halloween Wax Melt Products To Buy At Home Bargains

    Halloween is a popular season which seems to be growing every year in the UK. From August, alongside Christmas, Halloween products, outfits and decorations are in most stores and shops ready to be purchased. Am I a Halloween fan? No, not really, but I am a wax melt fan! There are 3 Halloween wax melt products I would quite happily buy from discount store Home Bargains. So what are they?

    Halloween wax melt fun in Home Bargains
    Halloween Wax Melt Burner

    Although I’m not a massive fan of wax warmers that use a tea light to melt wax, who wouldn’t be drawn to a black pumpkin shaped wax melt warmer? Being black makes it striking and would fit in with any decor. Great size, not just a wax warmer but also some form of decoration/centrepiece type of thing. Simple but sinister enough for Halloween. £1.49.

    Wax melt warmer
    Haunted House Shaped Wax Melt

    4 Halloween inspired wax melts which appear to be the in the same fragrance of pumpkin spice. Different shapes, one is a bat, another a pumpkin head, skeleton and ghost. They look fun, nicely packaged and only 99p.

    Haunted House Halloween Shaped Wax Melts
    Airpure’s Book of Spells Wax Melts Potions Book

    Containing 6 wax melts which can be broken to help you create your own fragrances. The wax melts are in the fragrances of Trick or Treat, Boo!, Nine Lives, Full Moon, Witches Brew and Black Magic. These fragrances are mostly bakery and sweetly scented such as toffee apples and marshmallow. £1.99.

    Airpure’s Book of Spells Wax Melts Potion Book

    None of these Halloween wax melt treats are expensive, which is great for the pocket! They are fun, nicely themed and not taken too seriously. What is there NOT to like? Perfect for Halloween lovers who happen to love wax melts too. So check out your local Home Bargains before it’s too late!

  • New Facial Cleansers For My Family

    Being a mum to two teenagers is no easy task. It’s also not cheap either! We all know how expensive children can be, especially this age range, but how am I finding dealing with skincare issues with them? Hormones, occasional break outs, dare I say…not wanting to wash face at all, makes buying skincare an interesting thing to do. So I just try to keep it as basic, and as affordable as possible. The first step is cleansers. What facial cleansers have I bought for myself, and my children, that has been affordable and why did I buy them?

    Family friendly cleansers
    Q+A’s Oat Milk Cream Cleanser

    Going from Summer to Autumn can cause changes not only to skin but in habits and routines as well. Skin can become drier and personally, I like to use richer textures when it comes to skincare products I use. This is where Q+A’s Oat Milk Cream Cleanser comes into my routine, because it’s thicker and more nourishing than other cleansers I use. Ideal for this time of year and perfect for my skin.

    Q+A’s Oat Milk Cream Cleanser
    Simple’s Purifying Cleansing Lotion

    I bought this for my 13 year old daughter. Simple as a range agrees with her. I try to keep fragrances out of her products and have formulations that aren’t complicated. I bought Simple’s Purifying Cleansing Lotion because she now wears make-up. Using this on a cotton pad I thought could be very thorough with removal. Plus, I felt this texture would help not strip her skin and be comforting to it.

    Simple’s Purifying Gel Wash

    This is for my 15 year old son, who doesn’t seem to understand washing your face with a face wash is important! He gets the odd spot, and I KNOW he doesn’t wash his face good enough to get rid of dirt and grime, and that’s why I bought Simple’s Purifying Gel Wash. Easy and quick to use, no fragrance, a bit of witch hazel in there to zap spots and hopefully clean and calm down any extra oil his skin is producing.

    Simple’s Purifying Lotion and Purifying Gel Wash
    Aldi’s Lacura Moisturising Face Wash

    I ALWAYS buy Aldi’s Lacura Moisturising Face Wash. Its such a simple cleanser but it does the job of cleaning the skin effectively and is affordable. We ALL use this, or at least myself and my daughter do. I will use this in the morning because I like the idea of a foaming face wash on the skin, and my daughter uses this…whenever she chooses to!

    Cost

    So how much did these products cost? Q+A’s Oat Milk Cream Cleanser was £7.50 down to £4.50 in Tesco. Simple’s Purifying Cleansing Lotion was down to £2.10 from £3.50 in ASDA. Simple’s Purifying Gel Wash was £2.85 down from £6.00, again, bought from ASDA. And Aldi’s Lacura Moisturising Face was £1.19.

    So, if you’re looking for skincare facial cleansers that are gentle on the skin, effective cleansers, no added fragrance or colour for the whole family, look into my purchases. Because all 4 of these cleansers tick each of those boxes.

  • Natures Clinic Skincare Products Under £3.00 Each In Home Bargains

    Depending on the brand and where bought, grabbing a whole skincare routine can be as expensive or as cheap as you want it to be. We all have different needs and wants from the products we put on our skin which makes a huge variety of products (and prices) on the market ideal for everyone. A brand I’ve never heard of but caught my eye is Natures Clinic. I found their skincare range in Home Bargains with each product costing under £3.00. So what did they have in their range?

    Natures Clinic Skincare Products
    Natures Clinic Pro Collagen + Carrot Oil Brightening Day Cream

    There wasn’t any information on what skin type this is for or what it will do to the skin. I can only assume it will moisturise and nourish. With shea butter as an ingredient this should at least do this if not anything else. 50ml for £2.99.

    Natures Clinic Day Cream
    Natures Clinic Bio Retinol Calming Night Cream

    Like the day cream, this contains shea butter. There’s also an ingredient in this called bakuchiol, which helps to improve the look of wrinkles, lines and texture of the skin. 50ml for £2.99.

    Natures Clinic Night Cream
    Natures Clinic Vitamin C + Tea Tree Relieving Face Serum

    Like the other products mentioned, there’s no real information on what type of skin this is designed for and what it’s supposed to do. But containing vitamin c I assume it’s to help brighten the skin and tea tree oil to help with break outs. So possibly geared towards more of an oily skin type. 50ml for £2.49.

    Natures Clinic Face Serum
    Natures Clinic Bio Retinol Soothing Eye Serum

    This is probably the one product that I’ve been tempted to purchase because it’s an eye serum! The packaging does mention it can help improve the look of dark circles and give the under eye area a more fresher look. This contains, like the night cream, bakuchiol, and also aloe vera which is soothing. £2.49 for 30ml.

    Natures Clinic Eye Serum
    Natures Clinic Turmeric + Vitamin E Purifying Face Scrub

    I didn’t get a chance to read the ingredients of this product properly, but I think this scrub is a physical exfoliator rather than a chemical one. Like all scrubs, they are designed to get rid of any dead skin cells leaving a fresher and smoother skin underneath. The size of this made me think this was for the body at 200ml, for £2.99.

    Natures Clinic Face Scrub
    My thoughts on this range

    Packaging is good. The colours are all beautiful muted tones which is really nice to look at and looks more expensive than what its being sold for. There’s a good mix of skincare products available. If there was a cleanser, you literally would have a full skincare routine at your finger tips. And of course the prices are budget friendly and affordable. The downside to this range is it doesn’t have enough information on the packaging. What skin type is best for what? What does each product do? There’s not much info on the products and brand online to do any research on either. But like anything, some things work for some people, some things don’t. And at this price point I would give one product a go and take it from there.