Teeny Tiny review

I got a tiny sample of The Body Shops seaweed facial wash. There's probably enough for 2 uses and i will use it all up and update if i change my mind, but at the moment i am not at all pleased with it. It's made my skin feel tighter and dryer! Ugh.

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.

HUGE toilettries haul

Firstly i got a few bits from The Body Shop. I haven't actually been in there for about a year, and that was just to buy 1 bar of soap (i love thir tangerine scented one, it's delicious). I was sort of pressured by the saleswoman into getting a body-shop card, she was nice and all but i am so shy i get flummoxed by sales people and her slightly pushy tactic meant i end up just saying yes to try and get the conversation over as quickly as possible. It seems like a fine deal, 10 percent off everything for a year, free birthday gift and bonuses when you've made 5 and 10 separate trips there, but you have to pay for it. Well actually she claimed this was a 'deposit' but i think you only actually get it back through the discounts. Anyway it was about £2.30 but she said something about it usually being £5, i'm not really sure. But anyway i went back another time and redeemed my birthday gift and grabbed some bits from their sale. The woman serving me forgot to scrub out the birthday thing on my card, so i'm tempted to be very naughty and go back and claim a second birthday freebie. Evil Lillian!



So i got a couple of things from the 'Anitas favourites' range, it was 2 for £6, usually £4 each or something. I got the Passion fruit cleansing gel, which smells absolutely amazing! I wasn't sure what else to get, so i just sniffed around everything and my favourite was the Dewberry scent. I got the body lotion because i just seem to have a lot more use for it than shower gel. Now i sort of wish i'd got the carrot cream because i've heard wonders about it. There's always next time i guess :P

I also got some bits from their sale, 2 pots of raspberry body butter (which smells absolutely divine, like raspberry fruitella weets or something), 1 pot of raspberry body scrub and one pot of passion fruit body butter (which also smells amazing, i LOVE passion fruit). They were all £5, reduced from £12 but i see everything in the sale on the website is now down to just £3. I might go back and see if it's the same instore soon. I'm a terror.

I haven't actually tried anything yet, but will be sure to let you know how i get on with everything :)

Then came Lush... Oh dear.
First i went in before christmas to get a few bits from their limited edition range:



I picked up Handy Gurugu for my Mum, who used it once and then decided she didn't like the smell. Neither did i, so it's gone on my blog sale.
Bar of Angels Delight soap
So white bath ballistic
Fairy tale sugar scrub
2x Candy cane bubble bar
Satsumo santa bath ballistic

The i did something bad... I wandered in during their 'spend twenty get freebies a plenty' deal... and then wandered in again another day D: THE SHAME! However, not all of this is for me, i picked up something for my mum and some of it is going in my big lush giveaway coming up (when i can afford postage again X/).
So here's what i actually bought:



Dreamwash for my Mum
Marilyn hair conditioner (used this once and did it wrong, i put it on wet hair, you're meant to use it dry)
tester pot of Charity Pot
The Comforter solid perfume (amazing, smells like blackcurrants <3)
Stacker of soaps with Rock Star, I should Coco and Honey i Washed the Kids
Angels delight soap (LOVE this, smells just like sweeties)
Coolaulin Conditioner
American Cream Conditioner
Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel
2x you snap the whip body butter
ma bar bubble bar
Supernova bath ballistic
amandopondo bubble bar
creamy candy bubble bar

And then i got ALL of this free!:



2x big blue bath ballistic
Geophyzz bath ballistic
1 bars of angels delight soap
2 bars of noubar soap
2 bars of father frost soap (one is HUGE)
strawberry santa, sweety pie and snow showers shower jelly
2x lil pud bath ballistic
2x honey bee bath ballistic
Handy Gurugu hand cream
2x fair trade foot lotion (smells like spearmint chew, yum!)
2x Snow fairy gift sets.

Oh my god, Lush with these freebies you are really spoiling us!

Am trying these out one by one, and i'm going to review it all for you as best as i can, first review coming up tonight

I am now pretty much self-sufficient in toilletries D:! I am AWFUL! No my buying stuff like this until i've hit pan!... Well apart from maybe a couple of bits from the body shop again, because i have NO self control. Boo hoo.

Well at the least when i am peniless i'll smell really nice XD