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N Spa Indulgent Gingerbread Latte Whipped Body Cream
by kaitlinsmummy
One product i have an abundance of, but still use on a daily basis is my beloved body creams, with me having around 30 pots at the moment (that is all i get of my relatives at christmas!).
I love having the choice of what scented potion i can use depending on how i am feeling that day, with this particular one being my ... absolute favourite, hence the reason this is the first one i have finished to review!
To me "n-spa" is a bit like the "original source" brand, with there being very few scents and products i dislike and wouldn't use again, though this one is seemingly coming tops at the present!
The pot for this cream is pretty bog standard as far as the product goes, a squat round pot with screw lid!
The blurb on the label describes this as an "indulgent gingerbread latte whipped body cream", which as someone who loves all fruity and sweet food flavours appealed to straight away!
Instructions for use with this range is quite florally in text, insisting that you should turn your bathroom into a spa experience, i personally wouldn't pay spa prices if they had my kids knocking on the door every two minutes demanding to know what i was doing!
The product does advise that the product should not only be smooth and massaged over freshly washed skin, but also your hips and thighs to create a healthy glow but to also stimulate the circulation, though i have tried this and have had no such effects!
The first time i used this (straight after bathing of course!) my skin felt quite dry and tight, so when i initially scooped a blob out i wasn't holding out much hope due to the consistency of the cream, which is a bit like Angel delight, and as someone who is used to body butters, and also due to me having skin like a lizard i rubbed over my skin with little enthusiam!
The cream itself is a lovely beige colour, with the scent being the initial draw to it, having a lovely spicy ginger/Christmas scent to it, which lingers for quite some time afterwards.
Surprisingly the cream actually alleviated the tightness in my skin straight away, and after an hour of soaking in to my scales, softened up my skin beautifully, though not quite as well as an actually body butter would.
The pot itself holds 300ml of cream, and has a shelflife of 12 months, though i did manage to eek mine out for around 5 months, which for the price of a pot (around the £5.00 mark) is really good value.
I really liked this cream, though more for it's scent than anything else, using it as a base to some of my spicier scented perfumes, i have actually been complimented on it!
Skin wise though it did work, i felt that for someone who has skin like mine, might find a slightly richer body butter a bit more effective, though i will probably still get some more of this just for the scent!
Availability for this product is quite wide spread now, with it being almost always on offer in Asda!
For more information visit - www.nirvanaspa.co.uk
Thanks for reading x
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N Spa Coconut Ice Cream Body Cream
by walsha11
Last Christmas I was given a few n-spa products. This is not a brand I have used before and so I was excited to try these out and see what I liked and didn't like. One of the items was this coconut ice cream body cream which I was keen to try.
The cream is stored in a rather large circular clear plastic pot. The pot has a ... black plastic lid that twists on and off very easily. Though it is quite large it is also relatively shallow, that said there is a lot of cream inside which is always a plus. The cream in this particular product is a light creamy colour and therefore the sticker on the lid matches this colour, as it does with other flavours. The sticker has the brand name and product info and on the reverse are the directions and ingredients.
The design isn't exactly going to winning any awards any time soon. It is functional though and easy to use. I haven't experienced any real problems with it and can't see that I will. The colours are inoffensive and would therefore look nice in most bathrooms. All in all underwhelming but nothing to dislike.
The cream is pale in colour and though not thick is doesn't exactly flow, just holds the shape. I usually like very thick body creams so I was a little disappointed to see this one was not exactly thick. However, once applied to your skin it gets even worse! The cream melts on contact with your body, because of the heat, and literally becomes like a liquid. It is very easily absorbed but I never feel like I've been properly moisturised after using it. My skin does feel soft but it isn't a very indulgent product and it never reaches the same levels as some of my preferred body creams.
The smell of the cream has to be the worst thing about it. I suppose the 'coconut ice cream' name should have given me an indication of what I was in store for, but it didn't. The smell of it is sickly sweet and totally unpleasant. It honestly smells like the kind of insipid perfumes you get given when you are 10. It does have a slight coconut smell but predominantly what I smell is overly sweet. I really like products that use fresh fruity smells but this is so synthetic that it just makes me think it must be packed with chemicals. I actually really hate applying it because of this - it makes me smell like a teenage girl who has a crush on Justin Bieber. Not exactly my dream cream.
I will continue to use this cream because it was free and there is a decent amount in the pot. The smell and the feel of the cream will put me off buying it again but I may as well use what I have.
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