Soap and Glory and Bliss Stocking Filler Gift Ideas

If you are like me and have left everything to the last week before Christmas then worry not as I have a few Christmas/Festive posts coming your way that will have you sorted.

First up are these cute ideas that will leave your lips (and hands) in tip top condition.

Soap & Glory 'MERRY KISS MUCH' Gift Bauble £5 - available from Boots stores.

The bright and fun bauble contains a full size Soap & Glory A GREAT KISSER Lip Balm in Juicy Peach.

Formulated with mango butter, apricot butter, lingonberry oil and pomegranate extract, A GREAT KISSER Lip Balm is not  at all greasy or too sticky and as lip balms go, it smells utterly delectable. 

Bliss Mistletoe Gems £13 - www.blissworld.co.uk

I love the shiny and festive packaging of this lip and hand care duo which is ideal for the cold weather and Winter months.

It features a 30ml handbag size high intensity hand cream which has a lovely fresh scent and is really concentrated and so effective that you literally only need to use a pea sized amount each time for perfectly moisturised hands. (Contains Macadamia Oil + Grapeseed Extract)

It also contains a full size fabulips - a traditional style stick formula lip balm that has a subtle vanilla scent which does a great job of softening and conditioning lips on the go. This has already found its way into my pocket.

*PR Samples

Bliss High Intensity Hand Cream Review

Another fabulous hand cream to pop in your bag ... Bliss High Intensity Hand Cream with macadamia oil + grapeseed extract.

Bliss say 

Bliss High Intensity Hand Cream contains macadamia oil and grapeseed extract leave dry hands silky, not greasy.

• Supreme softening and surface smoothing
• Silky but grease-free
• Smoothes rough cuticles

My thoughts 

If you are not a fan of floral or herbal/medicinal scents you will love this hand cream. It has an exceptionally nice fresh scent with a faint hint of citrus. This cream has a lovely texture that is easily absorbed and non greasy leaving you with gloriously silky soft skin.

Bliss High Intensity Hand Cream 75ml costs £18.40
Product shown - Travel Size 30ml £5

*PR Sample

Bliss Lemon+Sage Body Butter - Review

With the weather so wet and miserable I have been taking time out and indulging in a lot of home pampering and Spa brand Bliss Lemon+Sage Body Butter is ideal for this purpose. 

The lemon and sage citrus scent is Summer fresh but light and I find it incredibly refreshing.  The texture of the body butter is thick but instantly absorbing, leaving skin remarkably smooth and silky in seconds with an attractive sheen. The maximum moisture formula keeps skin feeling soft and hydrated all day. 

I tend to steer clear of body butters preferring lotions but this one formulated for professional massages no less is one of my favourites as it performs so well. Any dry skin is taken care of and it is suitable for use from shoulders to toes.

Ingredients include 

Coconut Oil to soften skin

Sodium hyaluronate to lock in moisture

Vitamin E to deeply nourish

Paraben Free

Bliss Lemon+Sage Body Butter costs £20.50

*I bought this myself

Result Of Product Trial - Bliss Fat Girl Slim

28 days ago I started using Fat Girl Slim from Bliss - The original post can be found here 

28 days later..

I have read the effects of Caffeine on cellulite, and I am pretty sure it was Cindy Crawford that famously said that she rubbed coffee granules into her skin so this attracted me to the product.

In my original post I did say that I wasn't keen on the name and it still hasn't grown on me. It suggests that a fat girl can become slim by using the cream which we know is just not true.

Scent - I like the smell, I find it strangely appealing. Readers of the blog know that smell is very important to me and whether I will like a product and continue to use it.

Texture - This is described as a cream but I find that it is a lot more watery and more of a gel consistency. Quite a few times I had to pick it up from the floor as it had slid off my hands. I once sent off for a lotion advertised on a Special K packet that was designed to reduce cellulite (wracking my brains to remember which company it was from) that was of an identical texture

Amount - This is an issue I have with most products like this - the results that are cited in  my original post do not mention how much of the product was used and nowhere on the packaging or instructions does it say how much to use either, so I guessed. I have almost finished my tub.

Frequency - I must admit most body moisturisers I own last forever as I find it quite monotonous to apply... The instructions say to rub this cream in twice a day to the problem area for 20-30 seconds  which I made sure I did.

I chose to apply to my back upper thigh area. The area feels lovely and smooth and has done so pretty much after a few days of usage, to the extent that it feels significantly different to the rest of my leg! The cream has a lovely cooling sensation when applied and once it has been rubbed in for 30 seconds it has dried.

I took before and after photos so I could see the difference for myself. It has reduced the appearance of the cellulite quite significantly. Although, perhaps I was expecting miracles and for it to have disappeared!. However, I personally feel £25 a month does seem quite a lot to maintain this appearance, particularly as I chose to apply it to a small area!

Will you be trying this cellulite cream ?

Fat girl slim costs £25

Product Trial - Bliss Fat Girl Slim

I am not wholly taken by the name of this Bliss product - Fat Girl Slim BUT  I must admit with these claims I found it hard to resist!!

The lean, mean skin firming, dimple diminshing cream - fatgirlslim!

This advanced-technology adipose antagonist (which, in layman's terms, means it visibly diminishes those dastardly dimples) features QuSome-encapsulated caffeine molecules for quick and targeted delivery of the skin-slimming stuff of choice of supermodels, spokespeople and other celebs.

clinical studies show:*
• 87% saw a firming effect
• 85% felt a slimming effect
• 73% noticed a reduction in the appearance of cellulite

So I am going to put this to the test for 28 days starting from tomorrow  - applying twice a day!

Would you like to see weekly updates ?

Wish me luck!