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  • Last Minute Christmas Gift Ideas In Tesco!

    Christmas is getting closer. I always find the lead up to that one day is the most tiring, stressful and expensive part. But with a little preparation, thought, and going to normal everyday places to tick off things off your to buy list, makes life easier. If you’re looking for gift ideas on a budget, for the face and body, here are some items I’ve spotted in the supermarket Tesco:

    Christmas Gift Ideas In Tesco
    Treacle Moon’s The Fabulous Four Gift Set

    Treacle Moon is a great brand that has a variety of bath, shower and body products available in various fragrances at affordable price points. This gift set includes 4 100ml shower & bath gels in the fragrances of: Spiced Gingerbread, Sunny Brazilian Love, Raspberry Kiss and My Coconut Island. Great formulations and fragrances, nicely packaged and down from £8.00 to £3.75 (when using Tesco’s Clubcard).

    Treacle Moon’s The Fabulous Four Gift Set
    L’Oreal’s Beauty Like A Boss Beauty Essentials Routine Collection

    This collection is such a great trio of products that are useful, practical and pampering. Included is a 400ml micellar water which helps to remove make-up. A plumping sheet mask which helps to soothe, smooth and hydrate the skin. And the last item included is a volumizing mascara. Down from £20.00 to £9.50 (when using a Tesco Clubcard).

    L’Oreal’s Beauty Like A Boss Beauty Essentials Routine Collection
    Foam & Fortune’s Soak & Smooth Duo

    A duo of 100ml sized body wash and 50ml body butter, both fragranced in Berry Crushin. Great travel and try me sizes, and ideal for a small gift or stocking filler. Priced at £6.00 but down to £2.80 (when using a Tesco Clubcard).

    Foam & Fortune’s Soak & Smooth Duo
    Foam & Fortune’s Sudsations Bath Bliss Trio

    Another budget friendly gift set from a brand that looks VERY similar to Soap & Glory. This set included 3 100ml body washes in the fragrances of Lush Hour, Berry Crushin and Call Me Juicy. £8.00 but down to £3.75 (when using a Tesco Clubcard).

    Foam & Fortune’s Sudsations Bath Bliss Trio
    My Spa’s Soft Sanctuary Body Butter Collection

    3 body butters, each 50ml in size, in the fragrances of Botanical Serenity, Tranquil Bloom and Calm Comfort. Botanical Serenity’s fragrance is a mix of lavender, eucalyptus, patchouli and sage. Tranquil Bloom’s fragrance is lavender, eucalyptus, vetiver and jasmine. Calm Comfort is lavender, sweet orange, ho wood and cedar. £7.00 but down to £3.30 (when using a Tesco Clubcard).

    My Spa’s Soft Sanctury Body Butter Collection
    Skin Saints Fragrance Collection

    Out of all of the gifts I’ve seen in Tesco I want this one! This is a collection of 3 different fragranced eau de parfum’s from the brand Skin Saints. Included is Rouge (amber & warm woods), Miss Paris (soft iris & patchouli) and Cerise (cherry & almond blossom). Each 50ml in size, which will provide lots of fragrance. Beautifully packaged with a nice mix of different types of fragrance. Usual price is £14.00 but down to £6.60 (when using a Tesco Clubcard).

    Skin Saints Fragrance Collection

    So if you’re still looking for budget friendly gift ideas and stocking fillers, and you shop in Tesco, it really is worth having a look in their gift section. Would you buy any of these? More importantly, would you buy any of these items and keep them for yourself?

    *These are available instore and online. Prices and promotions correct at time of writing this post*.

  • Affordable Bath & Shower Products In Home Bargains To Use This Winter!

    Products we use on the body can vary from season to season. Lighter textures maybe used in summer, richer consistencies in winter. Fresh and clean scents in spring but maybe more tropical, fruity of floral fragrances in summer. Fragrance is a massive thing which a lot of people change for different seasons. I’ve spotted body care products in Home Bargains that have winter in mind because of their fragrances. So what did I find?

    Affordable Bath & Shower Products In Home Bargains To Use This Winter
    Original Source’s Sugar Plum Shower

    If a shower gel in the fragrance of Sugar Plum doesn’t say winter, nothing else will! It should be fruity, sweet and the fact the shower gel is purple in colour has me sold! 99p for 250ml.

    Original Source’s Sugar Plum Shower
    Original Source’s Spiced Pumpkin Shower

    Probably more an autumn fragrance but still carries well into winter. Anything pumpkin is warming and cosy, and Spiced Pumpkin in this shower gel formulation should do just the same. 99p for 250ml.

    Original Source’s Spice Pumpkin Shower
    Imperial Leather’s Cherry & Snow Blossom Hand Wash

    Limited edition, Cherry & Snow Blossom is on the shelves ready to use this winter. What I like is the fact this comes in a hand wash, shower gel, foam body wash and bath wash. So you have a variety of different products to choose from to suit your need, all in the same fragrance. In the hand wash formulation, it’s a generous size of 500ml at a good price of £1.49.

    Imperial Leather’s Cherry & Snow Blossom Hand Wash
    Astonish Honeyed Fig & Almond Shower Gel

    Fruity, sweet and comforting is what springs to mind with a fragrance of Honeyed Fig & Almond. This comes in a shower gel, bath soak and hand wash. 89p for 250ml.

    Astonish’s Honeyed Fig & Almond Shower Gel
    Carex Festive Edition Frosted Eucalyptus & Cedar Bath & Shower Gel

    Lots of the winter fragranced products are on the sweeter, fruiter side, but not Carex’s Festive Edition Frosted Eucalyptus & Cedar Bath & Shower Gel. It’s a fresher, earthy slightly cooling fragrance which is probably more traditional for the winter season. 99p for 500ml.

    Carex Festive Edition Frosted Eucalyptus & Cedar Bath & Shower Gel

    So out with the tropical fruity fragrances of summer and in strolls in the autumn and winter fragrances ready for a more cosy time period. Personally, I can’t wait!

  • Things I’m Doing Now For Christmas

    Love it or hate it, we’re creeping closer and closer to Christmas. Some people like to start early preparing for the festive season, some feel it’s an outrage to think about it before we haven’t fully experienced autumn. I’m in the camp of liking to be prepared, time and energy willing, and this is what I will be doing now to get ready for Christmas:

    Checking what I have

    I have a habit of buying things and putting them away to use for another time or bought for a ‘just in case’ situation. Before I buy anything, whether that’s gifts for family or friends or seasonal home fragrance products, I’m checking what I already have stashed away. It’s easy to overbuy or buy multiples of the same item if you don’t keep a track of what you have. Checking what I have means I know where my purchasing gaps are, what I need and what I don’t need.

    Decluttering

    Who doesn’t need a good declutter? New Christmas purchases, presents and decorations mean more space is needed. So it’s a perfect time to get rid of any junk in the bin, sell items that are good quality or donate to charity.

    Making lists and checking them twice

    A list! Oh how I love a good list or three! I use lists at various stages. Example:

    1. What needs decluttering.
    2. What do you already have.
    3. What do you need.
    4. What to buy next and where, etc.

    Lists can keep us on track and give us a sense of accomplishment, especially if there’s lots of things to do.

    Seasonal home fragrance products

    I love autumn and winter fragrances. They suit the time of the year thanks to them creating cosy spaces in the home during darker and colder days and nights. This is the perfect time to stock up on these types of products to put away ready for use. I’ve already seen, even bought, some really nice fragrance products. And there’s plenty of time to buy more.

    Buying Christmas stocking fillers & gifts

    Checking that present draw, cupboard or stash, means you know what you have and don’t have now, right? Once I’ve done this myself, made a list and decluttered, I can now buy smaller gifts. Gifts that could be for stocking fillers, part of a collection of gifts or small one- off’s e.g teacher gifts. Every year there’s always small items I can buy easily, affordably and from anywhere, that will be make great presents. Body mists, body butters, skincare masks, wax melts, candles. These are the perfect types of items welcomed by many people I know.

    What do I WANT?

    A lot of the Christmas preparation is for other people, so don’t forget yourself! If you’re buying a candle for a neighbour or teacher and you think it’s gorgeous, get one for yourself! If you’ve grabbed a body mist for your daughter and you know you will ‘borrow it’, get a second one. This is what I will be doing because I can spend so much time worrying and buying for others and not the same is being done for me.

    These tips can be used for anything

    What I will be doing can be used for anything. Checking what you have could be not just for presents but for food items too. Decluttering could be sorting out the cupboard under the stairs, the kids bedrooms. Christmas gifting could be a set of pjs, comic socks, a mug. All these acts are transferable. Done bit by bit, week by week, can make Christmas less stressful, more organised, cheaper and easier for us all.

    So when will you be starting prepping for Christmas? I’m starting NOW!

  • Superdrug’s Limited Edition Halloween Fruity Body Mists

    Superdrug is one of those staple stores on the UK high street that stocks a wide range of products from health care to hair care, body care to skin care. Is it somewhere I shop regularly? No. So what draws me back into purchasing from Superdrug? Price promotions and their own branded products is what pulls me in. Perfect example is their Fruity range. I recently bought two of their Limited Edition Halloween Fruity Body Mists. But why?

    Superdrug’s Limited Edition Halloween Fruity Body Mists
    I’ve used them before

    Last year I bought and loved their Fruity Blood Orange Body Mist. Great price point, I loved the scent of it and it was just something a little different fragrance wise. So I already had an idea what the quality of their other body mists would be like in this range.

    What did I buy & why?

    I originally wanted a different scent but it wasn’t in store. So I opted for two limited edition body mists in Sour Apple and Pumpkin Spice. Both were seasonal, both appealed to me scent wise. And when I had a sniff off Sour Apple I wasn’t leaving the store without it! But why did I look at them in the first place, besides the fact I’ve used one of the body mists before? Price point! When I purchased these they were half price with Superdrug’s loyalty card which made the mists very affordable.

    Pumpkin Spice

    This is the time of year when anything and everything that can be scented will include pumpkin spice as a fragrance. Superdrug’s Fruity Pumpkin Spice Body Mist is very spicy and warming in the form of ginger and a little cinnamon. Do I get much pumpkin? Maybe, but its the spices that come through more and I love it.

    Superdrug’s Fruity Pumpkin Spice Body Mist
    Sour Apple

    I can honestly say I have NEVER smelt a body mist in this scent before! It literally smells like fizzy, apple flavoured sweets. So there’s no mistaking what this fragrance is! Sweet, effervescent, zingy apple, which I love as it’s very unusual in this fragrance form.

    Superdrug’s Fruity Sour Apple Body Mist
    Worth buying?

    These aren’t perfumes, so don’t expect them to have the same longevity or strength as a fragrance full of essential or fragrance oils like an eau de toilette or eau de parfum. But these are the perfect sizes to travel with (100ml), seasonal scents with Sour Apple being a revelation! And if bought while on promotion (which this range of body mists these have been regularly), very affordable! Definitely worth a buy!

    Usual retail price is £3.49, but at time of writing this post half price with a Superdrug loyalty card.