We're off on holiday to the sun (well hopefully to the sun!) next month, and I always like to take a wide range of lotions n potions with me. I'll bet that a good percentage of my luggage weight on the way out is in toiletries, but I have a cunning plan here see - I use them up whilst we're there and then just leave the empty or nearly empty bottles at the end of the holiday thereby creating more space and weight for all those purchases that I've made whilst on holiday! If I buy something that I've not tried before to take with me, then I do always like to try it out first at home to make sure that I'll actually end up using it. One of the products that I've ...  Read the complete review

I'm a bit of a body moisturising addict; I'm always on the lookout for a new product that's going to make my body smooth and silky. So scamming the shelves of Tesco I noticed this 'vitalising gel body oil' was half price (I believe it was around £2.49) and decided to try it. This wasn't the first time I'd seen this product, I'd spotted it in Boots as well but couldn't really justify accommodating an approximately £5 body gel that I had neither tried nor tested within my student budget. The packaging: The packaging is very enticing, this product comes in a transparent tube with a brown top, and you can see the gel which has a bronzed hue to it. There's a ...  Read the complete review

It seems like cocoa butter is in everything these days, I remember when the only cocoa butter products you could buy were made by Palmers and now even Vaseline has got in on the act. Vaseline has created a new Cocoa Butter Vitalising Gel Body Oil (bit of a mouthful) and after looking in Boots for a body moisturiser I decided to give it a go. According to the Boots website it is £4.88 for 200 ml, I really don't remember it being that expensive when I bought it and now I am annoyed at myself for spending so much on it, especially as it is £3 in Superdrug. The first thing that attracted me to this product is the bottle as I think it is attractive. It is ...  Read the complete review

My Mum purchased this body oil a few months ago and, after using it a couple of times, decided she didn't like it and instead gave it to me. This definitely isn't a product I'd buy myself. In fact, I've seen it on the shelves in countless amounts of stores and never even bothered to pick it up. I'm not a fan of cocoa butter in general, I just don't like the smell. I don't really like oily products either, I much prefer creams and, probably the biggest thing that stops me from even giving this product a second look half the time, a 200ml bottle costs around £5. While I would be willing to pay £5 for 200ml of a product I did really like the sound of/ had heard good ...  Read the complete review

**Introduction and reason for purchase** I love toiletries and any spare 'me' money I have goes on beauty items - I may already have 10 half used bottles of shower gel on the go for instance, but if I spot something that takes my eye, and further more is a bargain, then I am always gullible enough to buy it. I do go through a hefty amount of body lotions/ creams etc though as my skin can become quite dry if I don't moisturise adequately, so after my daily shower I often apply whichever lotion I have in reach. I did however have a valid reason for purchasing the product I will be discussing here as I was genuinely getting low on body lotion, so when I ...  Read the complete review