Solid Moisturisers.

I can't believe that I'm nearly hitting 50 followers. To some of you, that means nothing, but to me it means alot. It tells me that nearly 50 people out there read my blog and take the time to follow and keep up to date with what I post on here. I just want to thank every single one of you.

As I am increasingly on my way to 50 followers, I think that a giveaway is in store. So as soon as I hit 50 followers, I shall announce what I'm giving away and so on and so forth. Once again thanks so much!

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Surprise surprise, some Lush products once again. I do apologise but everything from that shop is simply wonderful. So here are a few massage bars from the store. I have previously spoken about the Hottie Massage Bar, which is another solid moituriser thats great for massaging and moisturising at the same time.

 

This Massage Bar is called the 'Soft Coeur'. The wonderful thing about this bar is the wonderful smell of chocolate and honey! Who doesn't want to smell like chocolate!? This product is packed full of Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, Honey, Cocoa Powder, Almond Oil and Sweet Wild Oranges Oil. Lets be honest, that concoction smells like a terrys chocolate orange. Yum. As you can see this product not only leaves you smelling delicious but it is also full of moisturising oils that are great for the skin.

I really love these bars, not only because of their gorgeous smell and cute little shapes but simply because there is no wastage. With a tub of moisturiser, I'll dig out a handful, slap it on and I find that im rubbing it in for ages because I've used too much! But with this bar, you massage it into the skin and it doesn't need much at all as it melts in yours hands and onto your skin.

'Shimmy Shimmy'

This massage bar literally does this. It makes you shimmer with little tiny bits of glitter, Great for making your legs look amazing in that LBD. So this massage bar comes in handy when you need to nourish your skin but you also want something special too. Thats whats great about these bars, they not only nourish your skin, come in cute little shapes, smell delicious but they also have a unique specialty within each bar. For example, the cocoa power, the glitter and the massage bar with it's 'knobbles and bobbles' as lush put it!

So here is 'Tiny Hands'. How cute is that name, it makes me thing of little babies hands and feet! So this again is a solid moisturiser, but it is specifiaclly targeted for your hands. This bar is great for the winter months when your poor little hands are dry and cracked and in need of some help from some tiny little hands.

Even though these products are like some of my favourite products from Lush. They are a pain in the arse to carry around because when it gets a tad warm they'll start to melt and you don't want your 'tiny hands' melting within you gorgeous leather designer handbag, right girls?

So a massive tip, would be to purchase the 'Massage Bar Tin' from lush. This is a small tin that will allow you to take this product in your bag and let you use it on the go, not just the confides of your home. You could even search for some other little tins to keep the products in, it doesn't exactly have to be the one from lush.

So girls, have you tried any of the Lush solid moisturisers? What did you think of them?

Mj
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Passion Fruit Body Butter

So while being away for the weekend with the family, (which I will be posting about very soon!!), I popped into The Body Shop, to make a quick purchase.

The weather was absolutely beautiful all weekend. While we were out shopping my legs got really dry and looked soo flakey, Cringe!! So I hurried over to make a quick purchase to moisturise my parched looking legs!!

The range in The Body Shop was HUGE! Each tub of body butter I opened made love to my nostrils! Seriously beautiful fragrances. So it was between the coconut body butter and the passion fruit body butter. 

I bought the Passion Fruit Body Butter - Fruit De La Passion

So I bought the smallest version of this body butter, which is 50ml, mainly because I didn't know whether I'd like it. It was purely for a quick fix for my flakey legs. 

But I'm half way through the tub and desperately need to repurchase!!

The body butter is gorgeous! It's described 'with passion fruit seed oil to moisturise. Normal/Dry skin'

The smell is so yummy, I could have literally taken a few chunks from my moisturised, beautiful smelling legs!!

So as it's a body butter, the consistency is quite thick, as you can see from the picture. I love moisturisers like these as I find them nice and easy to use and not very messy, I also find they massage well into the skin and absorb very easily, yet still giving off a nice glow. 

I definitely recommend this product purely because of it's gorgeous smell of passion fruit. I will be checking out their other body butters soon. I was also very pleased with this purchase, as at the bottom of the tub, The Body Shop have written 'AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING'. I really disagree with animal testing, not to the extent that I check products but I do believe it should be stated clearly on the product, which in some cases, does not. But I guess some products aren't going to openly state on their products that they 'test on animals'. 

Have you purchased any body butters from The Body Shop? Have you got any recommendations? 

Thanks.

MJ

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Literally Lush!

So on Wednesday, I went up to Bristol to have an interview for university for a Journalism course. I didn't like the university at all... although the course looked really good!! So I'm in a little bit of a dilemma at the moment. Cardiff or Bristol -.-

So after I had my interview(Which went okay!!), I popped into Cribs Causeway shopping centre.

So as you can see, I visited Lush!

Now when ever I see a Lush shop, I go in, have a look, love the smells and then walk out empty handed. Why? I really don't know. But this time I came out with a gorgeous little paper bag. I LOVE paper-bags. 

So what was in my little paper bag?

Look how yummy the packaging is. It's so colourful and pretty. 

So firstly I bought the 'Rock Star' soap. This retails for £3.25 per 100g.

The soap is divine. Firstly the colour, wow what a gorgeous pink. The smell is perfect for a girly girl with a beautiful scent of candy! Yum! Now I'm not a girly girl myself, but on certain days I feel like a nice pamper night, also known as my girly night. So this is the perfect soap to chill out, relax, smell of sweet creamy candy and feel ever so girly and pretty. 

After using this soap, I found that it didn't lather very well. Which i didn't really expect it to, Although it left my skin moisturised and candy scented for the whole day. Also, the Rock Star scent floated through my bathroom for a few hours which was great.

So secondly I bought the 'Hottie Massage Bar', which cost me £5.25 for a 90g bar.

Now as I work in a gym and my boyfriend plays a lot of rugby, we really enjoy giving each other massages with some of my moisturisers and oils after a hard training session. So when I seen this moisturising massage bar, I thought yes, finally. Someone has finally produced a moisturiser in a solid form so that it not only massages and work into the muscles, it also moisturises and leaves you smelling gorgeous. 

The massage bar has a flat side to run over the skin and dissolve the butters, while the other side is moulded into lumps and bumps to knead and rub aching muscles. The bar is made out of Ginger Oil, Black pepper Oil, Jojoba, Cocoa Butter and Ginger.

My boyfriend really enjoyed this product, mainly because he hates sticky, wet moisturisers. So this was perfect, as it was a butter that dried fairly quickly but still left the skin glowing and moisturised. The fact that you could go from a nice smooth sensation with the flat end of the bar, so an intense massage with the other side, was great. This bar is great for anyone who loves massages and who sometimes needs to release the tension in their muscles. 

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Both of these products, I would recommend. Although as it was my first time using them, I can now see why you would need to purchase a 'massage bar tin' and a 'soap tin', so that you can keep the products in tack so that they will last longer. 

Have you used these products? What do you think of them? Do you recommend any certain products for my next trip to Lush?

Thanks

MJ

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