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  • Glow’s Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar Day 8 to 14

    When it comes to my Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar from Glow, I’ve enjoyed 7 days of beautifully scented and seasonally smelling wax melts. But from Day 8 it gets much more interesting because it’s not just wax melts in this advent calendar, but other goodies too. So what did I find behind Day’s 8 to 14?

    Glow’s Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar
    Day 8- Tropical Wax Melt

    Tropical Wax Melt makes me think of oranges with cloves poked in them because this is a mix of spices and oranges. It has an almost bakery smell to it and is definitely a winter inspired fragrance.

    Day 9-Peach Sparkles Foaming Bath Salts

    An almost sweetie smelling peach fragranced bath product, and such a generous amount too! I’ve not had chance to use this as December has been very busy so far, but once I have my few days off for Christmas, I’m getting in the bath with this!

    Day 9 Peach Sparkles Foaming Bath Salts
    Day 10-The Essentials Box Wax Melt

    Fizzy, clean and fresh citrus with vanilla giving it that added sweet and comforting feel that only vanilla can give. Essentials Box Wax Melt is stunning!

    Day 11-Twisted Tinsel Foaming Hand Wash

    Another body product which was a delight to see, especially with it being full sized. This hand care product smells just like strawberry Chewits sweets, which means I can’t put this out yet as it would last 2 seconds! Not even a standard hand wash but a FOAMING one! Impressive!

    Day 12-Family Love Wax Melt

    Family Love Wax Melt is that mouth watering mix of lots and lots of berries! Fruity, fragrant yet somehow still has quite a winter feel to it.

    Day 13- Family Love/Love Family Wax Melt

    This is a sugary, sweet, vanilla fragranced piece of wax. It’s very rich and has a slight chocolate smell to it which would make any bakery scent lover happy.

    Day 13 Family Love Wax Melt
    Day 14-Cosy Nights In Wax Melt

    Cosy Nights In has a minty, cooling, peppermint smell to it mixed in with strawberry. Perfect balance of sweetness, mint and fruit so not sickly, cold or heady.

    Day 14 Cosy Nights In Wax Melt

    So that’s Day 8 to 14 done and dusted. How exciting is it to see some bath and body products in this advent? Although the two mentioned I haven’t used yet I don’t want to rush using them, I want to take some time out to enjoy them. But they both smell amazing. All the wax, yet again, have smelt incredible and there hasn’t been one I haven’t enjoyed.

    Well done Glow!

  • Glow’s Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar Day 1 to 7

    I have one advent calendar for this year, and that has been from small business Glow. No chocolate filled cardboard box, no gin contained hamper, just Glow’s. And I’m not sorry about that because I know I’m in for a treat! This advent calendar so far has included wax melts, but I know bath, body and other fragrance goodies are included in later days. So what has been behind the doors from Day 1 to 7?

    Glow’s Christmas 2023 Advent Calendar
    Day 1-Beside The Sea Wax Melt

    Beside The Sea is a gorgeous blend of coffee, toasted marshmallow and toffee. I got the coffee straight away scent wise, but I originally thought this was mixed with warmed through sugar or possibly caramel. Similar notes and just as mouth watering. Stunning blend, very comforting and perfect for this time of year.

    Day 2-Preloved Wax Melt

    This was an earthy/plant like scent but with a slightly fruity and sweet undertone to it. Preloved definitely gives you that feel of going for a walk in a park with frost on the plants and grass while the sun beats down taking the edge off the chill in the air.

    Day 2 Preloved Wax Melt
    Day 3-Cocktails Wax Melt

    A fizzy ‘cocktail’ of fruit, vanilla and sugar is how I would describe Day’s 3 wax. There’s a hint of spice in this and this smells good enough to eat! Very energising and one that fruit fragrance lovers will adore.

    Day 4-Break A Leg Wax Melt

    Break A Leg has a fruity base to it but mixed in with woody notes and herbs. This does have a masculine feel to it but it really is different and stunning in scent. Quite clean in smell but full of depth.

    Day 4 Break A Leg Wax Melt
    Day 5-Glowsters

    Another yummy fragrance, Glowsters is fruit based but with a hint of tropical (pear, coconut, peach and pineapple), florals and musk. Almost perfume like as I could imagine this being a body fragrance of some sort and very pretty. LOVE!

    Day 6-Happy Birster Box

    Happy Birster Box is a bakery fragrance but with a winter twist. The bakery bit comprises of caramel, almost burnt sugar like scent and marshmallows. The winter bit is the woody notes thrown in of cedar. Very unusual and well rounded.

    Day 7-Surprise

    Another wax from the bakery family but a little more traditional than the previous ones. Surprise is comforting, sugary but not sickly, and includes vanilla and caramel. Dribble worthy!

    Day 7 Surprise Wax Melt
    How is this advent going so far?

    I can honestly say that every single wax I’ve melted so far has been amazing. Each one totally different to the other, great strength and just as good longevity wise. So far I’m getting quite sad I’m changing the wax in my wax warmers so regularly as I’m enjoying the previous one’s way too much! Love this advent and can’t wait to experience the rest over the next days.

  • Hands Will Love Glow’s Gin & Tonic Hand Cream

    Hand cream. Hand cream is one of those products we use but unless you use it everyday, you don’t appreciate it. Only when hands look and feel dry, sometimes cracked and aged that we are rummaging around for our magic in a tube. Or at least that’s what I’ve been doing recently! The hand cream I’m currently using is Glow’s Gin & Tonic Hand Cream, which was gifted to me by Glow a few months ago. So what is this like? Is this any good?

    Glow’s Gin & Tonic Hand Cream
    Consistency/Texture/look

    Glow’s Gin & Tonic Hand Cream is white in colour, smooth in texture and has the consistency of lotion. It’s liquid but not runny and not thick.

    Fragrance

    This has a citrus undertone to it. Earthy in scent and almost herbal. Gin & Tonic Hand Cream has a slightly masculine smell to it. It’s such an unusual fragrance and not something I’ve smelt before, especially in a body care product. It won’t appeal to everyone but it’s that kind of scent that slowly grows on you.

    The state of my hands recently

    Literally within the space of a week my hands have gone from a lovely brown colour, relatively smooth to ashy, dry and shrivelled. THIS is what going into the Winter season has done to them! So I’ve been carrying this in my pocket in work to help them look less dead like. This hand cream has had its work cut out with me!

    In use

    I tend to use this mostly in work because I’m using my hands a lot. Although this is lotion like in consistency, it has a slip to it so it feels very moisturising but it’s not sticky and greasy in feel. Sinks in very easily, and it doesn’t take long for me to be able to use my hands once this applied. My hands immediately look more healthy as the colour comes back to them and they look moisturised and not dry. Plus they feel less tight.

    I do have to use this a regularly because I’m using my hands a lot so I apply this little and often. The fragrance isn’t strong but it’s there and I get a whiff of it throughout the day. Honestly? I was unsure whether I liked how this is fragranced but the more I used it the more I think I’m softening towards it.

    Recommended?

    I like this hand cream. Easy and quick to use, leaves the hands feeling and looking moisturised but normal and not shiny. It’s quite a light weight hand cream so perfect for normal to dry hands. Really dry hands may need something thicker but for most of us this will do nicely. Recommended!

    This comes in different fragrances just in case Gin & Tonic isn’t for you. Available soon once Glow’s online store is restocked.

  • The Best Advent This Year! Glow’s Christmas Advent Calendar 2023

    I make no secret of how much I love small business Glow. It started off with my discovery of their wax melts. Then I tried out their other home fragrance products. To make my addiction even worse they started to make and sell bath and body products too (which of course I’ve tried). One way I keep my Glow habit going is through their monthly subscription boxes. The biggest and best one so far has got to be their Christmas Advent Calendar for 2023, and guess who has it? ME!

    Glow’s 2023 Advent Calendar
    What is this?

    Glow’s 2023 Christmas Advent Calendar includes 25 products labelled 1 to 25. These are a mix of wax melts, home fragrance products and bath and body products.

    Bath soak
    What’s included?

    16 tubs of fragranced wax.

    1 candle.

    1 foaming hand wash.

    1 bubble bath.

    1 bath soak.

    1 foaming bath salts.

    1 hand cream.

    1 massage oil.

    1 room spray.

    1 perfume.

    2 Christmas decorations.

    Perfume
    First impressions?

    My first thought when I opened this was WOW! The box was so heavy it was overflowing with products! The variety and sizes of these items was impressive. The wax wasn’t tiny chunks of wax, or the bath and body product were in sample sizes. The wax melts easily could be 60g plus in weight. The candle is a really good, medium size and products such as the hand cream, room spray and massage oil are in full sizes. Very generous amounts of product.

    Some of the packaging is super cute and festive too. The bubble bath, bath salts and bath soak all are housed in Christmas inspired shaped containers. The look, the sizes, the fragrances (ALL SMELL AMAZING!) blew me away and worth every penny of the £30.00 spent on this!

    This possibly could be my favourite box from Glow yet!