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  • Lotions & Potions December Pamper Box, What Was In It?

    In August, I signed up for a Lotions & Potions December Pamper Box. I’ve bought and used many products from this business before, and one of my favourite things to purchase is one of their monthly boxes. Each month, a new box is released filled with various products e.g haircare, body care, skincare or bath and shower. The thing is, you never know exactly what you will get. But what you will know is it will contain A LOT of products, all great quality and all great value. So what did I get in December’s Pamper Box?

    Lotions & Potions December Pamper Box
    Winter Warmer Sugar Scrub

    Fragrance wise, you can imagine with it’s name, this will be perfect for the time of year. Cinnamon, cloves and orange, if this doesn’t scream winter nothing else will! This scrub is jam packed with sugar particles, squashed in a pampering and thick formulation, which should exfoliate and moisturise the body at the same time.

    Winter Warmer Sugar Scrub
    Frankincense, Gold & Myrrh Jumbo Bath Bomb

    Round, quite weighty and baby blue in colour, this bath bomb is seasonally scented with an almost perfume like fragrance to it. Sweet, citrusy, comforting and warming. Plain in look, but I think this will create a great bath time experience.

    Frankincense, Gold & Myrrh Jumbo Bath Bomb
    Cosy Winters Night Whipped Soap

    A bright and rich looking whipped soap lightly sprinkled with star decorations and a touch of glitter. This is going to be ideal for those who need and want a richer product to wash their body with. Dry skin should love this, and those who like richer textures of body products like me will too!

    Cosy Winters Night Whipped Soap
    Winter Warmer Soap Sponge

    A soap sponge is an easy and quick way to wash the body. Already infused with soap and fragrance, literally grab, place on damp skin and wash away! Winter Warmer Soap Sponge smells amazing and a great partner to the Winter Warmer Sugar Scrub scent wise. This smells spicy and uplifting. The cinnamon in this has a fiery kick to it which I enjoy.

    Winter Warmer Soap Sponge
    Cedar, Black Pepper & Patchouli Gold Shimmer Body Wash

    100ml of body wash that can be used in the bath or shower, housed in a pump action bottle. You can see the fine gold shimmer in the body wash, which is fun. The fragrance will probably appeal to men more as it’s very woody and masculine, and still very fresh and clean.

    Cedar, Black Pepper & Patchouli Gold Shimmer Body Wash
    Spiced Whisper Body Wash

    Spiced Whisper Body Wash has a spicy citrus scent to it. Quite different to the other body wash, and may appeal to more people as its less specific. Another 100ml product housed in a pump action bottle, which makes using and leaving in the bathroom practical and easy on the eye.

    Spiced Whisper Body Wash
    Cleansing Face Balm

    Perfect product to cleanse the face if you want the richest and thickest form of cleanser. Very typical balm like consistency, which is solid, almost Vaseline like and will melt on skin or in fingertips.

    Cleansing Face Balm
    Glittering Hydration Mask

    This mask is very unusual in its texture. Almost jelly like and full of glitter giving it a copper coloured look. If you want a fun mask but one that’s designed to hydrate the skin, this could be the one!

    Glittering Hydration Mask
    Cookie Dough Lip Butter

    Hydrating and in a fun, yummy flavour/fragrance, this lip butter is a lip balm which contains various oils and butters to keep lips supple and smooth.

    Cookie Dough Lip Butter
    Fame Perfume Balm

    A balm formulation that is highly fragranced and a different way to wear fragrance compared to a spray or oil. Great for the pulse points, moisturising on the skin while giving fragrance without drying it out. The heat from the skin will help the balm melt and allow the fragrance to really come alive and travel.

    Fame Perfume Balm
    Extras!

    It’s not a Lotions & Potions box without extras! December’s Pamper Box included: individually wrapped fudge (yum!), 80g panettone (waistline GONE!), socks, gloves and a super cute little worry bear.

    Cost

    £35.00 including postage and packaging.

    First impressions?

    This is A LOT of product for £35.00! All hand made and hand packaged which i incredibly impressive. The theming is spot on for December e.g scents, textures etc. A great mix of different products which covers the face, body and bath and shower. All nicely packaged, generous sizes and will keep me going for months! 9 full sized products with extras for £35.00? As usual, exceptional value! So as you can tell, my first impression on this box is wow!

    This box is a one off for December. Never to be repeated again in this configuration. But these products are available individually on the website * website currently being updated so watch this space!

  • I Love Glow’s Cosy Blanket Room Spray!

    Room sprays are a form of home fragrance I’ve started to use more of over the last few years. They’ve never really interested me in the past, but I’ve found them to be a quick, easy way to dispense fragrance in a room if and when needed. A quick freshen up, deodorise bad smells and replace them with good. It’s taken me awhile to appreciate them but I do now. The current one I’m using in my home is Glow’s Cosy Blanket Room Spray from their December Subscription Box. So what is this room spray like?

    Glow’s Cosy Blanket Room Spray
    Packaging

    100ml of fragrance comes in a white, plastic trigger style dispensing bottle. It’s nothing flash, but the illustration on the label depicts the fragrance name perfectly. Practical packaging, compact and easy to use.

    Fragrance

    Cosy Blanket is a beautiful, comforting and slightly warming scent containing creamy vanilla, a little crisp citrus and amber. What this makes is a fragrance that is incredibly inviting, cosy, relaxing and although can be used during any season ideal for Autumn and Winter use.

    Strength & Longevity

    The strength of this room spray is medium to strong. It’s strong enough to be there but not harsh. There’s no mistaking when I spray this in any room because Cosy Blanket immediately delivers a hit of fragrance. Longevity is brilliant. I can spray this in various rooms and places and the scent remains for a good amount of time.

    Combatting odours

    This is a great room spray to help with smells in the home e.g cooking. Once sprayed, it really cuts down on smells you don’t want in a room with. It softens them and helps to replace it with this beautiful, almost perfume like scent. Does it take away the bad smells totally? Going off my own experience not fully, but it really does take pungent smells down a notch or two.

    Glow’s December Subscription Box
    Recommended?

    Thinking of all the room sprays I’ve used in the past, Cosy Blanket has got to be one of my favourites. The smell is stunning! I could have this fragrance in anything and everything whether it’s for the home or body and bath, it’s so good! The fact it has vanilla in it, which is one of my favourite scents, is a winner. But it’s the quality of this product for me as well. It’s a beautiful scent, perfect strength, lasts well and makes bad smells better instantly. Why would I NOT love this? Absolutely recommended, and totally upset this isn’t currently available. But keep an eye on Glow’s website for it’s return, hopefully sooner rather than later!

  • Glow’s December Bath & Body Subscription Box

    This year hasn’t been a year of subscription boxes for me. Normally I’m a regular buyer of them but less so in 2024 (lets just say it’s been an expensive year!). But I have treated myself to bath, body and home fragrance business Glow’s November AND December Subscription Boxes. I bought November’s because it was Christmas inspired wax melts and December’s because it contained bath and body products, which I’ve been waiting for. So what did I get in December’s box of bath and body goodies?

    Glow’s December Bath & Body Subscription Box
    Jolly Holly Christmas Hand Wash

    A fun alternative to a liquid hand wash in the form of a foaming one. Use in the same was as the traditional version, its just a different consistency. Jolly Holly Christmas Hand Wash is a seasonally fragranced product, scented with red apple, pear rhubarb, nectarine, cinnamon, caramelised sugar and vanilla.

    Jolly Holly Christmas Hand Wash
    Silver Sparkle Body Wash

    This body wash looks and sounds special. Firstly, it literally sparkles, thanks to it shimmering with fine silver glitter/pigment. Secondly, the fragrance sounds very earthy and almost aromatherapy based which is lavender, lime, rosemary and eucalyptus. And thirdly, this product is part of Glow’s Lotions and Potions sub range, which focuses on products being chemical free and more naturally based.

    Silver Sparkle Body Wash
    Chocolate Orange Soap Sponge

    Soap sponges are an easy way to wash the body. Already impregnated with soap and fragrance, these are brilliant for everyday use and gifting. The one I received was Chocolate Orange, which is the perfect scent for Winter and Christmas, with its mouth watering chocolate and zesty orange notes.

    Chocolate Orange Soap Sponge
    Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub

    Containing moisturising sweet almond oil and glycerin, this sugar scrub will make a welcome addition to my bathing routine this winter. It looks so inviting with it’s rich, creamy, almost dessert like texture, speckled with fine exfoliating pieces. The fragrance of Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread intrigues me because this is quite a combination of seasonal scents, but will they work together?

    Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Sugar Scrub
    Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar

    If you want to go a step further than a bath bomb, a bubble bar is the best product to try. Moisturising, slightly foaming, fragrant, these are one of my favourite bath products ever! And that’s why I was excited to see Spiced Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar in this subscription box. This is a decent size and could easily provide 2 baths. Perfect partner to use alongside the scrub as they are in the same fragrance.

    Spiced Cocoa Mint Gingerbread Bubble Bar
    Cosy Blanket Room Spray

    Room sprays are a form of home fragrance I’ve been using often over the last few months to provide a quick spritz of fragrance in rooms. Cosy Blanket Room Spray is a mix of vanilla, amber and citrus. So this should be a very comforting and warming fragrance.

    Cosy Blanket Room Spray
    Extras

    Glow’s subscription boxes wouldn’t be a Glow subscription box without extras! The extras included in this months were a Christmas printed scarf, a brooch, a Christmas bell and individually wrapped chocolates and jelly beans.

    First impressions?

    This is a great mix of products for the bath, shower, body and even the home. Fragrances are very festive, all full sized products, products look really inviting in regards to textures and colours and the value of what I’ve received is exceptional! This subscription box cost £25.00 (including p&p) for 6 full sized products, which works out just over £4.00 each. All hand made and packaged with love and care.

    Subscription boxes are limited in availability and once gone are gone, but all the products I’ve mentioned ARE available on Glow’s website here. Literally a one stop shop for all your body, bath and home fragrance needs.

  • Christmas Wax Melt Subscription Box With Glow

    I love a subscription box! Especially when I haven’t purchased one for awhile. So I couldn’t miss out on Glow’s November Subscription Box which is filled with Christmas inspired wax melts and extra seasonally goodies as well. Why did I buy this? I don’t have many Christmas wax melts and this was the perfect way to get different Christmas scents all in one collection! Cost? £25.00. So what was in it?

    Christmas Wax Melt Subscription Box With Glow
    Christmas Cookies

    A large, flat, red slab of wax with images of gonks etched into it and the words ‘Merry Christmas’. This is a stunning and fun piece of wax which is incredibly generous in size. Christmas Cookies does smell like a bakery scent. There’s vanilla, sweetness, a little buttery element to it. Mouth wateringly good!

    Christmas Cookies Christmas Wax Melt
    Cosy Night In

    Mint green in colour, flat and square shaped with ‘North Pole Express’ and reindeer images in this wax melt. Reminds me of a stamp and I love it! The fragrance has a fruity, berry undertone to it but with a hint of bitterness to it and spice. Cosy Night In is a great fragrance and an unusual one.

    Cosy Cardigan

    Same shape and size as Cosy Night In, but pale yellow in colour with the words ‘Merry Christmas’ on the top of it. This isn’t a traditional Winter fragrance. It’s quite fresh and clean with floral notes running underneath it. It’s very pretty and it smells like it’s part laundry part perfume. THIS I know I will enjoy melting!

    Cosy Cardigan Christmas Wax Melt
    Santa’s Grotto

    Soft purple in colour with a reindeer image and the words ‘Reindeer Mail Express’ on the top of it. Very cute and very festive. The actual scent of Santa’s Grotto has sweet, juicy citrus in this (smells like orange) with a slightly masculine woody element to it. It’s a great combination of scents which somehow work well together.

    Santa’s Grotto Christmas Wax Melt
    Twisted Peppermint

    Different shades of blue with an adorable snowman etched into this wax melt square. The fragrance of Twisted Peppermint is what you would expect with it’s scent name. It’s cooling, minty, fresh, sweet, with a little vanilla in this.

    Twisted Peppermint Christmas Wax Melt
    Extra’s

    Along with the wax came a key ring, a small hanging decoration, a panettone and a small bag full of chocolate, which will not last long!

    Extra goodies!
    First impressions?

    This is such a good collection! The amount of wax included will provide hours and hours of fragrance, which is incredible value! The wax melts themselves are colourful, well themed and adorable in appearance. And the fragrances are what you would hope for, for this time of year. But not the boring, predictable fragrances which get hashed out, these are a little different. I love this collection and can’t wait to start melting them over the next few weeks.

    This subscription box was for a limited amount of time and no longer available. But Glow has a variety of home fragrance, bath, body and skincare products available to buy online, with many perfect for gifting over Christmas or to treat yourself.