Soap and Glory Reviews

Soap and Glory is a brand i really like. They have lovely vintage style packaging, are reasonably priced, often smell gorgeous, never test on animals and the names are punderful! Also the brand is very often on sale or offer at boots (currently 1/3 off)
 One thing i do object to with the brand is that i wish they had more variety of products. They have about a million different body scrubs and moisturisers in their line but only one hair product, no facial moisturisers and with their cosmetics they only have lip glosses and one powder. I'm hopeful they'll start introducing a bigger selection.

Go beneath the cut for some product reviews :)

The Body Shop Reviews

I'm on a big skincare review kick at the moment :P After this i have some Soap and Glory reviews and then i think i'll have talked about everything i've used up (or enough to review) or far.  I hope you enjoy reading these toilettrie based posts as well as makeup ones :)

Also coming up soon i will be posting a series of blog sales including makeup, clothes, accessories, shoes and miscellaneous stuff. I am absolutely skint at the moment and have an entire room full of stuff i want to sell (i'm serious, a whole room! D:) so i figured i would actually finally get round to photographing it all. I'll be offering it at prices i think are fair but i want to get rid of as much as possible (everything that doesn't sell here will be going on ebay) so i will be up for haggling :) Sorry if you're not interested in blog sales but i do have some nice stuff and want to offer it to my readers first :)

Anyway here comes the body shop post, hope you like it!

Lush 'You Snap the Whip' Body Butter

So when i was buying making my big lush haul (which you can see in my last post) i picked up one of these because i was so intrigued by the concept of a solid body butter. It smells amazing, just like blackcurrant cordial, which i love. In fact i loved it so much i picked up a second bar on my next trip to lush, before even trying it! It was £5.



the toothbrush in the photo is so you can see the size.

So i had a bath and was looking forward to using this. Basically you just rub the bar over your damp skin and it leaves little exfoliating grains and a greyish liquidy layer of product over you. Something i noticed was that instantly the bar starts to dissolve, and quickly. I really suggest if you use this or another body butter you put it in a soap dish of some kind after use, otherwise it gets messy, if you buy 2 body butters at the same time Lush gives you a free tin (which you can also purchase seperately for £2.95) I stupidly bought 2 on separate occaisions, so i've just kept mine in it's original paper wrapper.

I hadn't actually reaslised this had exfoliators in it, so i had used my usual exfoliator already. Anyway my skin was left beautifully soft and silky, though maybe not as 'hydrated' or 'plumped' as i usually get with body butters. My skin was left smelling lightly of the blackcurrant squash scent, lovely.

So i had a second bath using this, this time i didn't exfoliate before hand. Again i was left with nice smooth, soft skin, but not to the same extent as the time before.
Unfortunately, there is a real downside to this product.
After just two washes this is what i was left with:



(eww it looks gross don't it?)

While i hadn't been using the bar particularly sparingly i also hadn't be putting on thick layers or anything, nor had i dropped it in the bath or anything, so i'm guessing this is just average (i have another bar so i'll update if this changes). I used this tiny bit again and got about half of my body done before it dissolved away to nothing. So i would say that this product has probably got at most 3 good uses in it and to me that makes it a bit pricey at a fiver.

Another downside, well i don't really care but other people might find it a real problem, is that this product is really really messy. As i was rubbing it over my body and the product becomes liquid i found droplets of it just went flying everywhere, leaving me with little greyish splatters on the wall. Also as the bar is black prepare to sit in a grey bath after use.

So would i recommend or repurchase this?
I honestly don't know. I really, really loved the smell, and it worked pretty effectively. I can see this being a major bonus in the dead of winter. I don't know about you, but when it's freezing there's little i hate more than standing naked in a cold bathroom for about 10 minutes while i rub lotions and potions into my body. So having a product i can use in the bath that will give me the effects of a moisturiser seems a genius idea, i'll be able to just hop out, towel off and get into some nice warm pyjamas.

However, £5 for something i can only imagine getting 3 uses out of at the most seems really excessive. While a bath ballistic or something will cost about £3 and only last once, that's more of a novelty product that i personally would only use once in a while as a treat, whereas a body butter or moisturiser is more 'essential' and i use it after every bath or shower i have. So a fiver for such a small amount of product just seems too much for me.

So, really i don't know. I'm looking forward to using the other bar i have, but i really don't know if i would buy it again.