Empties posts are few and far between! I rarely use up products these days because I am constantly trying out new things so everything gets put into rotation. I had to admit to myself that I have a real bad hoarding problem. My bathroom was beginning to look like a Boots aisle, so I decided to use up as many products as I could before buying any more. I now have a little collection of empties sat in an old Glossybox waiting to be recycled and it is such a good feeling to see empty products and knowing you have accomplished a goal.
LUSH Big Shampoo
★★★★★
I have mentioned this in previous Empties posts because I absolutely love this shampoo from Lush. It is a sea salt shampoo designed to give your hair the maximum amount of volume, freshness, shine and softness. I love to use this because a little bit goes a long way – it lathers up so richly with even the smallest amount. It takes my hair a lot longer to go greasy when I have used this and has a beautiful fragrance of neroli, mandarin, orange flower absolute and vanilla.
LUSH Mask of Magnaminty
★★★★★
Another Lush product – I can’t help myself, they have pride and place in my bathroom. This face and body mask is by far one of my favourite scrubs to exfoliate the skin. It is a fresh peppermint fragrance so it instantly refreshes the skin. I find this really helps to control breakouts on my skin and any redness that occurs. This particular pot was a smaller one that I was using purely on my face and is the self-preserving formula. I like to keep this on for about ten minutes while taking a bath.
The Body Shop Frosted Plum Shower Gel
★★★★☆
I did a whole post on The Body Shop Festive Fruit Trio Shower Gels back in December and I absolutely love them. While Frosted Cranberry was my favourite, I got through Frosted Plum super fast because it made a beautifully scented bubble bath. These lather up so good while in the bath and in the shower, and make for a brilliant bath gel. This particular scent has plum extract and Community Fair Trade sugar from Paraguay and smells like blackcurrant Starbursts!
Creightons Vanilla & Macadamia Cocoon Bath & Shower
★★★★★
If I had to describe my favourite scent to you, I’d make you smell this. It is so, so ridiculously good and reminds me of Werthers Originals. It is a rich, toffee scent with notes of vanilla and macadamia and creates huge volumes of bubbles in your bath. I love to use this as a shower gel also because it smells so creamy and elegant on the skin after bathing. A little goes a long way with this fat tub – however, I find it so easy to go overboard with this because I seriously freaking love this stuff.
Lancome Trésor Midnight Rose Shower Gel
★★★☆☆
The Midnight Rose fragrance by Lancome is one of my all time favourites, particularly as a night time perfume. My boyfriend brought me a trio for Christmas that included a bottle of the perfume, a body lotion and a shower gel. I love the idea of perfumes as lotions/shower gels. While I obviously really liked the scent, I didn’t always feel like I was 100% clean using this shower gel because it didn’t lather up as a richly as I would have liked, so I felt I was using too much product in one cleanse. But the scent is gorgeous.
Soap & Glory Scrub of Your Life
★★☆☆☆
I have fallen out of love with Soap & Glory – I rarely use their products anymore. But I had this tube sitting on my windowsill for a while and decided to use it all up. This scrub is so thick I had issues squeezing it out of this tube in the end – I would much prefer it in a tub. It has the original Soap & Glory fragrance that we all love so much. It certainly isn’t the best body scrub they have – I do love the Sugar Crush scrub and the Breakfast Scrub so much more better but this is handy for traveling with.
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap
★☆☆☆☆
As I mentioned in this post, I am a die hard liquid soap lover. I have heard great things about the Dr. Bronner range, but I wouldn’t recommend their liquid soaps. This 18-in-1 organic tea tree hemp soap smells really strongly like cleaning fluid and/or chemicals, which could be from the use of oils and citric acids. I found it didn’t lather up well either which left me feeling like my hands weren’t clean enough. It was incredibly watery as opposed to gel like or creamy and sometimes it burned my hands when I had dry skin.
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