The Wonderful World of Soap & Glory

Let's have a bit of a history lesson shall we? Soap&Glory started in 2006, and has been pleasing our skin and our noses ever since. When I was researching for this post I found this bio of the company, which I thought said it better than I ever could! It makes for a very interesting read, so check it out if you fancy a bit of background info: http://www.soapandglory.com/blog/about-us/ 

This post is going to be about the things I adore and the things I'm not a huge lover of from Soap&Glory. This is in no particular order, but if you're looking for a specific thing feel free to scan through. 

Lets start with the Righteous Butter (£10.50 gasp), this body moisturiser is so thick and creamy and smells like you could eat it (obviously don't because that would be bad...) and is aimed at people with very dry skin, so my skin drinks it up like that's what it was meant to drink up all it's life. My skin gets so dry especially around September-March time so that's when I love to use this; but I do like to break it out on a pamper night after a bath and it makes my legs silky soft after shaving. I would recommend using it at night as it might be a little heavy for daytime wear. As you can see from the picture I've not got a massive amount left which isn't surprising, but I'm pleased with how this has lasted me since the end of June! Another body lotion/moisturiser/skin quencher is The Daily Smooth Ultra Rich Body Lotion (£10...another gasp), again I love the smell which is apparently 'bergamot, blackcurrant, magnolia, freesia, vanilla and musk' and dayum do those scents go together well. My skin always feels nice and smooth without this being too heavy, so I'll usually slap this on in the morning to keep me smelling good and my skin feeling good all day, the scent does cling to skin, clothes whatever it can latch on to really so if you're not one for heavily scented body lotions I don't think this ones for you but, if you're like me and you like your scents to be BAM in your face and get lovely wafts of it all day I would highly recommend this. I think hand cream falls into the moisturising category, and this hand cream certainly lives up to the bold claims on the packaging, Hand Food (£5 or £2.50 for the handbag size) smells exactly like the Righteous Butter, so obviously I love the scent and it does wonders for my hands. Recently I had a huge eczema flare, and my hands were all flaky and dry and just generally disgusting (too much info? maybe..) and I swear down this was the cream that saved them. It claims to be 'the most astonishing hand cream ever?' and I have to say I agree. The best thing about this is that it isn't greasy, and sinks in really fast so you're not sitting there with sticky wet hands (lets not go there) for ages waiting for it to do its thing. 

Next up people: its the Flake Away Body Scrub (£7.50). This isn't my favourite of their scrubs, I am truly committed to my relationship with The Breakfast Scrub (£8) (it smells like maple syrup what can I say?) but I do like this one on the side occasionally. It can be quite abrasive which I'm not a huge fan of as my skin is quite fussy as to what it allows me to use on it, but the smell is nice and it leaves a sort of residue that keeps my legs in particular (this is becoming a very leggy post) soft as a baby's bum. I have found however that when my eczema flares up this is NOT a good thing to use anywhere near my body, it hurts deep. I don't think I'll be buying this again when it runs out, but only because The Breakfast Scrub holds a special place in my heart. Sticking with scrubs, Pulp Friction (£8). Now this is definitely one of the products from Soap&Glory I'm going to have to give a thumbs down purely because I hate the smell so. much. It smells like an aftershave that's gone off, don't get me wrong it scrubs my skin just fine but I can't get past the smell! I know of people who love it though so it may just be a personal preference thing but ugh. This is one I will not be using again when I've finally finished it, no sir. 

Sticking to the bodily cleansing theme; Clean on Me (£6) is a clarifying shower gel, it gets my body clean, makes me smell good and leaves a little bit of moisture. I liked it while I had it, but this is a tad expensive for daily use when there are shower gels I like better for four or five pounds cheaper. Not much else to say on this one!

I've also got the Mist You Madly Body Spray (£3.50 for 100ml or £6 for 250ml) which I also love as it smells like the Daily Smooth, and there really isn't all that much else to say on this...it makes me smell lovely. 

Now I've got two make up related things in my collection at the minute, the Cheekmate Cheek and Lip stain (£8) and the A Great Kisser Lip Balm (£5). The stain I've only really used on my cheeks as I got it in spring and I feel its more of an autumn/winter colour to be used as a cheek colour but it has really great lasting power on the lips, the one thing I would say is that it is quite drying, but the colour is gorgeous. The great kisser lip balm is pretty much the opposite colour wise, its pretty much clear so just adds a subtle sheen to the lips and its very moisturising, the flavour I have is 'Juicy Peach' but I'm also after 'Vanilla Bean' for my collection. I've also had the Smoulder Kohl eyeliner (£5) which I LOVED. 

Well that's it! I've stuck to body and make up things in this post, but I'm thinking of doing a similar one on the skincare products for the face that I've trialled and what my verdict is on those.

Thanks for reading this incredibly long post! 

Beth:) 

(P.S. all of these products can be found on the Boots website.)