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  • 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!

  • October’s Round Up, Which Products Did I Use?

    Like the rest of 2023, October just seems to have come and nearly gone in the blink of an eye. Everyone seems to be gearing up towards the Winter season now, and dare I write the word Christmas? There’s lots of products I want to get my hands on in the next few months, especially now the seasons have changed. But what did I use in October?

    Products used in October
    Revolution Skincare London’s Watermelon Hydrating Undereye Patches

    These were bought at a great price (£1.99 from Home Bargains), lots of under eye patches included so generous amounts of applications and a fun and quirky look to them. But I didn’t find Revolution Skincare London’s Watermelon Hydrating Undereye Patches the best under eye patches I’ve ever used. Probably better suited for my 12 year old daughter to use. I doubt I would buy these again for myself.

    Revolution Skincare London’s Watermelon Hydrating Undereye Patches
    Autumn Scented Wax Melts From The High Street

    I broke out of my usual shopping habits. Instead of buying wax melts from a wax vendor, I picked up three from stores on the high street. All in my opinion ideal scents for Autumn, each one were affordable, easy to get hold of and smelt really good.

    Autumn Scented Wax Melts From The High Street
    Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread Scented Wax Melts

    One of the three Autumn inspired wax melts I purchased from the high street was Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread Scented Wax Melts bought from Home Bargains. An affordable and fragrant warming gingerbread fragranced wax which is perfect to melt this time of year.

    Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread Scented Wax Melts
    Scrubee Body Butter By LUSH

    Scrubee Body Butter By LUSH really confused me. Is it a body butter? Does it exfoliate? Strangely enough it does both while you’re in the shower or bath, which is even more confusing! Great product, smells AMAZING but might be a step too far for those who like their products to be more traditional and simple to use. Although, I’ve found this is brilliant to use on the feet if you want them smoother and softer!

    Scrubee Body Butter By LUSH
    Glow’s Cosy Toes & Winter Glows October Subscription Box

    I’m still struggling to get through Glow’s Cosy Toes & Winter Glows October Subscription Box because there’s so much product in this collection! One thing both myself and my daughter have been using and enjoying daily is the body mist. Other products included were a shampoo, soap, whipped soap, magnesium balm and natural deodorant. How much of this will be left before my daughter steals more items I have no idea!

    Glow’s Cosy Toes & Winter Glows October Subscription Box
    Boots Ingredients Hyaluronic Sheet Mask

    I’m a great believer that skincare doesn’t need to be expensive. There will be skincare available on the market that will suit all budgets. Boots Ingredients Hyaluronic Sheet Mask is inexpensive, easy to use and incredibly pampering and hydrating and regularly on a price promotion.

    £1.00 Boots Ingredients Hyaluronic Sheet Mask
    CeraVe’s Resurfacing Retinol Serum

    A hard working product that I’ve been using for over a month now, CeraVe’s Resurfacing Retinol Serum tackles uneven skin in regards to texture and colouring. I’m using it to deal with issues with hyperpigmentation, and so far so good…I can see results!

    CeraVe’s Resurfacing Retinol Serum

    So this is my round up of products I’ve used in the month of October. As usual, there’s been a mix of everything from home fragrance to body butter scrubs and skincare. No favourites in this mix because they’re so varied. But one thing that stands out is how Scrubee Body Butter smells. It’s absolutely to do die for!

  • Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread Scented Wax Melts

    As a wax melt lover, I tend to purchase wax melts from wax vendors. These are small businesses who make and sell their own wax melts in various shapes, sizes and scents. But sometimes a girl just wants one piece of wax, not a selection, to grab and melt at home in the space of an hour. And that’s why I purchased a few Autumnal inspired wax melts from the high street recently. One of those wax melts was Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread from Home Bargains. This cost 79p for 88g.

    Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread Scented Wax Melts
    Why did I buy this?

    Gingerbread as a fragrance is popular at this time of the year and flies off the shelf in Home Bargains in wax melt and candle form. But for some reason I’ve never actually tried it! I love this fragrance, I love wax melts and I love the 79p price tag so why have I not? Well, I have now…

    Appearance & Packaging

    Wickford & Co’s wax melt is segmented into 8 cubes which need to be broken off to use and pop into a wax warmer. It looks like a very chunky chocolate bar even more so with it being a dark caramel colour. Its all one block colour with no glitter, no design, nothing, just plain.

    The wax is housed in a plastic casing which keeps it protected and easy to store away. The label itself looks very festive and inviting.

    Fragrance

    It smells of gingerbread definitely. You get the hit of ginger which is more bakery based rather than zingy fresh ginger, thanks to it’s sweetness and hints of spices and citrus. It’s a beautiful scent which isn’t too sweet and sickly and very comforting.

    In melt

    I only used one cube of this in my wax warmer and it melted away evenly and released fragrance straight away. I’m so used to my wax melts having a shimmer to them, or creating a beautiful wax pool, which this didn’t.

    Strength & Longevity

    The strength of this, one cube alone, I would say is on the verge of being strong. Strong not in an overpowering way but in an obvious, it’s there and cuts through other smells kind of way. I’ve had a leak through some new plaster work recently. It’s left a lingering damp, wet plaster smell which is very annoying! With this melting in the hallway I can barely smell it! Longevity is just as good as the strength. A few hours of melting and the strength and scent is exactly the same as when first put on.

    Recommended?

    I’m not ashamed to say I’m a bit of a wax melt snob and look down at wax melts that are sold cheaply on the high street. But it’s safe to say I’m much more open minded now because this is really good! Nicely packaged, good amount of wax to melt, great fragrance which is a punchy one and is cheap! So if you love your gingerbread fragrance this should definitely be purchased!

  • Autumn Scented Wax Melts From The High Street

    Autumn is my favourite season in the year. The best tv shows land ready for me to be glued to my remote control. The weather is the perfect combination, normally, of sun, mildness with a a hint of crispness to it. And it’s totally acceptable to hermit and start living under a cosy blanket which is the second skin of a sofa. BLISS! Another thing I love about this season is the various home fragrances available to use that match with this time of year. So I decided to grab three wax melts from three high street retailers that screamed Autumn. And these are what I bought:

    Autumn inspired wax melts
    Pacific Wax Co’s Pumpkin Spice – Asda

    This wax melt cost £1.00 for 35.4g (the smallest out of the three purchased). Packaged in a protective plastic clam casing (which they all are housed in) with the wax segmented into 6 pieces. I love the label on this. It depicts the fragrance well and shouts Autumn to me.

    The fragrance is spicy, warming and does have a pumpkin element to it. Not too strong or sweet and very balanced. Pumpkin scents aren’t my usual go to but this one is really nice with the spices coming through gently.

    Pacific Wax Co’s Pumpkin Spice Wax Melts
    Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread – Home Bargains

    This wax melt cost 79p for 88g (the cheapest out of the three purchased) which contains 8 cubes. The labelling, like Pacific Wax Co’s Pumpkin Spice, is cosy, easy on the eye and tells you what this is supposed to smell like from picture alone. When I think of THE Autumn/Winter scent it has to be Gingerbread!

    This fragrance is a mix of ginger and some citrus notes to it. Warming but not spicy. This is mainly ginger for me but a bakery ginger not the spicy ginger. Great scent, just how I want a gingerbread piece of wax to smell like!

    Wickford & Co’s Gingerbread Wax Melts
    Restore Sandalwood, Cedar & Cardamom – B & M

    This wax melt cost £1.50 for 103.5g of wax which is the biggest in size, weight and cost of all three I bought. This is made up of 9 segments. I like the shape of this wax as it’s not square or rectangular, which gives it an interesting look. The labelling is beyond basic. No pictures, just the fragrance name. Strangely enough I’m fine with it because although this smells like an Autumn fragrance, it may be sold all year round so it can’t stand out seasonally.

    Fragrance wise this comes across as quite a clean scent as it has powdery notes to it. A little woodiness comes through with the smallest hit of spice but barely there. I really like this one. Very unusual, I like the cleanness of this but could be spicier.

    Restore Sandalwood, Cedar & Cardamom Wax Melts
    Overall

    Three differently sized, priced and fragranced wax melts which all tick the Autumn box! It’s nice to have three wax melts that smell differently but all give off a cosy feel in different ways. I can only assume all three are widely available from these stores and which ever one you chose won’t break the bank, and should provide a good number of hours of fragrance.