A Soap & Glory Love Affair

Last month it was birthday and I was lucky enough to receive some lovely presents from my family. Knowing that I have a great love for the Soap & Glory brand, they bought me some lovely goodies from the range. 

The Daily Smooth Body Butter - £9.00 for 250ml

This Daily Smooth body butter is fragranced with Bergamot, Blackcurrant, Magnolia, Freesia, Vanilla and Musk - which equates to a lovely feminine scent. The body butter itself is a reasonably thick cream that lives up to its promise of being an 'amazingly-effective dry skin formula'. I find this body butter incredibly moisturising and lovely to apply after a shower. The scent lingers throughout the day and my skin is left feeling soft and supple.

The Breakfast Scrub - £8.00 for 300ml

The Breakfast scrub is made from oat, shea butter and sugar with organic cupuacu bio scrubs, bananas, almond and honey extracts. With these ingredients you could assume that the scrub smells like honey or banana, but it does however smell like maple syrup. The scent is so deliciously sweet that I found myself sniffing this product non-stop. I have a personal preference to sweet smelling products, however I know that not everybody will want to smell like a walking pancake, so some people will find the scent of this scrub far too sickly. Scent aside, this is really lovely scrub to use and is very effective at smoothing the skin. I can also see this tub lasting me a long time as you only need to use a small amount of product per shower.

Clean On Me Shower Gel - £6.00 for 500ml

This shower gel has the 'classic' Soap & Glory signature scent - very reminiscent of Dior's Miss Dior Cherie. I found the gel to be a very creamy and luxurious consistency and lovely to use, especially in conjunction with the scrub gloves! It claims to also have the addition of a built-in body lotion, and I can certainly say that after using this product my skin felt soft and moisturised without having to use a separate lotion. As with all Soap & Glory products I adore the cute retro packaging, and the pump makes it easy and mess free to use in the shower.

Smoothie Star Body Milk - £10.00 for 500ml

A relatively new scent to the Soap & Glory range, the Smoothie Star Body Milk contains Almond, Cocoa, Yogurt, Oat and Honey and smells like Almonds, Brown Sugar and Oats. I adore anything sweet or edible smelling, so this is probably my favourite Soap & Glory scent. The lotion itself is incredibly moisturising and claims to feature a 'waterlock' moisture trapping matrix - although I'm not sure exactly how this technology works, this lotion certainly left my skin feeling super soft and moisturised all day long.

Scrub Gloves - £4.00 for one pair

These cute scrub gloves are a great way to exfoliate without the need to use a scrub. They are lovely to use in conjunction with the Clean On Me Shower Gel and they leave my skin feeling really cleansed and soft - fabulous for dry knees or elbows! 

Soap & Glory products are available to buy from Boots stores and online. I would recommend all of these Soap & Glory products, and they make lovely gifts! Do you have a favourite Soap & Glory product?

Boots Ingredients Coconut & Almond Body Butter // Review

In my first blog post I confessed how much I love body butters, and this is a love with no foreseeable end in sight. The most recent addition to my body butter collection is the Boots Ingredients Coconut and Almond body butter. What drew me to this product was firstly my love of anything coconut scented, and secondly the very reasonable price - £3.05 for 200 ml. 

Boots describe this product as follows, 'With extracts of Coconut & Almond, Boots Ingredients Body Butter is specially formulated to moisturise and hydrate your skin, leaving it soft and smooth.'

The product itself smells coco-nutty (albeit slightly synthetic) and the scent lingers on the skin after application - a factor that I look for in a good body butter. The scent of coconut reminds me of summer holidays and always brings a smile to my face, and this Coconut and Almond fragrance is no exception. The butter does take a while to sink into the skin, so is perhaps best applied at night or first thing in the morning when you are not in a rush to get dressed. That being said, once it had absorbed it left my skin feeling hydrated and soft.

I can't say that I have fallen in love with this product, but for a cheaper body butter it does the job nicely. This body butter is available from Boots stores and online, retailing for £3.05. 

Do you like coconut scented products? Or do you have a favourite body butter?

NIP + FAB Dry Skin Fix Body Butter // Review

I recently discovered the NIP + FAB brand whilst browsing my local Boots store and was instantly drawn towards their body butter range. Currently they have four different scents in the range; Mango Smoothie, Coconut Latte, Pistachio Sundae and the newest addition to the family, Cherry Tarte.

The packaging claims -

'Indulge your senses with this intensive, nourishing body butter to help repair dry + de-hydrated skin with a subtle comforting scent.'

*Avocado oil repairs + leaves skin with a healthy sheen

*Honey conditions + smoothes

*Aquaxyl 24hr moisture + shine

Firstly, I'm a big fan of body butters. I prefer them to ordinary moisturisers as I like the thick texture and find them much more moisturising and luxurious in comparison to ordinary moisturising lotions. I've also found that the variety of scents available tends to be more diverse, something that the NIP + FAB range has catered for. 

These body butters certainly deliver on intense moisturisation, when used I found my skin to feel both soft and hydrated. The hydration lasted all day and even into the next! 

I have to confess that I am now obsessed with the pistachio scent! It is the first time I've seen a pistachio scented product on the high street and it is reminiscent of the luxurious (and rather expensive) Laura Mercier Creme de Pistache body souffle. Although a slightly different product it's nice to see a pistachio scent at a fraction of the price! The product itself is a thick green cream, perhaps not the most aesthetically appealing, but this is easily counteracted by the divine scent. The scent reminds me of sweet nutty macaroons, not to everyone's taste, but to me it is simply heavenly. The scent of these products lingers on the skin which I found an added bonus. 

The NIP + FAB body butters retail at £9.95 for 200ml. I think this is rather pricey for a high street body butter, however I would pay this for the unique pistachio scent. Boots tend to have the NIP + FAB body butters on half price deals so keep a look out if you're interested in trying the range.

Personally I look forward to trying more products from the NIP + FAB brand and hope they bring out more body butter scents soon.