Skin savouirs P.S.

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So as summer is passing I've decided to take on autumn/winter challenges early. Last winter murdered the skin on my face. It was dry and flaky and generally uhck!! So I've decided that I'm going to begin a nice little ritual of moisturising daily to keep my face alive during the fast approaching cold months. Thus leading me on to todays post taking you through my favourite moisturisers, and maybe a sneaky few secret life savers of mine! If you're good

So I thought I might begin with my Body Shop skin care items. I have four of the body butters. On top is the Body Butter DUO in 'sweet pea' which just smells delightful. It's very floral and sweet as you'd expect but oddly enough it actually smells like sweet peas. I like that genuine scent as I find far too many brands have skin care that just reek of chemicals, so to find something that smells natural might make the remaining chemicals easier to ignore.
I have one other Body Butter DUO in 'Macadamia' which oh my gosh, I bought two. I literally splurged because of this scent. Ok, so I know macadamia is a nut just like myself, haha, but this smells also a little tiny weeny bit like.... Playdough. And I have nothing but love for it. It's a very soft scent as appose to the sweet pea one and I used this more last Autumn. Which is quite handy as I have one for each weather type. The thing with the DUO butters' is that they're very versatile. Instead of being one moisturiser that 'does two jobs' it is in a sectioned pot with one half butter for dry skin and one half butter for normal skin. Giving you the option of the added help on days where you just need a bit more security.
The other two I have are both regular Body Butter single pots for normal skin in the scents 'Blueberry' and 'Passion Fruit'. Both are really nice tasty fruity smells. They look and smell (and feel) like yoghurt. It's an every day struggle not to eat them. Darn chemicals again!
As far as pricing goes they were a little dear. I did get them a while ago now in January, but I believe they cost £13 each. Maybe there was an offer on. There must have been considering I own 5. I'm not crazy much!

Nextly, I have two much cheaper moisturisers thank god.  However I find that they're just as nice to use as the Body Shop butters. Firstly from Tesco is the Unique Boutique Body Créme that smells of Vanilla, Ginger and Pink Pepper. Now I don't know what pink pepper is but I do know that this is the single most beautiful scent in all the world. If I was told I could only smell one thing again it would most definitely be this. I think this was around the £8 - £10 mark around Christmas time and although I use it most out of my whole collection I seem to have most of it remaining. You really don't need a lot of this to go along way, especially if like me you're just concentrating on your face at the moment. It really is quite beautifully packaged as well. Its in a glass jar with a metal lid which when (IF) I run out of this, it will make a nice storage piece. I love this. It contains mango seed oil too which really does rid you of dry skin so super quickly and just leaves your skin feeling perfect. If Tesco have it in next Christmas I will be stocking up. Promise!

Next is the GEMSPA Body Butter in 'Calming Amber'. I've not had a lot of use out of this as of yet unfortunately but I have found it very soothing after using a salt scrub. I pretty much just team this with my Calcot Manor lazy evening gentle salt scrub after a shower. I've not noticed a huge skin repair effect with the GEMSPA butter but it smells great and it only cost about £4 -£6 so you can't lose with it really. It does make a great base for powder foundation too if there's a day I don't feel like going the whole primer, concealer, liquid foundation, hog!
Both very very good buys I think.

And finally, the secret surprises. That may not be that secret as I rant about theses a lot but hey ho here they anyway. Drum roll please...... DUM DUM DUM. T-zone, clear out nose pore strips. Amazing, take all of 5 minutes to do and completely wipe all the nastys out of your nose. I'm 99% sure you can buy theses for your forehead as well and to be honest they're that cheap you'd be silly not to. I got mine for £1 for a 5 pack from B&M Bargains in the UK.
The little red pot I got free in a samples box. It is the 10 total repair revitalift cream from Loreal Paris. I don't use this as a face cream as such, I use it more as an eye cream focusing on my eye lids as I didn't realise until recently how much damage can happen to them through every day life. So to protect them just makes common sense to me. This does sting like a mother if it gets in your eyes though so do be careful. It smells really really nice too but unfortunately I can not comment on its actual purpose because I don't use it in such a way. However it does leave me with soft eye skin which is always a bonus. I have no idea how much this would cost for an actual non sample size. I must find out and get back to you.

And finally, I think I've spoken about this in my old blog. The Along Came BETTY Clearly Perfect skin tone corrector. Oh my life. Words can not explain how much I depend on this. I use this EVERY time I wash my face. Id be lost without it. Basically what this does is alters the pigment in your skin, sounds scarier than it is. It has I think red algae extract in it which reduces blemishes and adds a glow to your skin. This has absolutely worked wonders for me. It's available in Tesco with the rest of the Along Came BETTY (Soap and Glory rip off) items near the cosmetics and it is honestly such a reasonable price you'd be daft not to pick one of these up on your next food shop. Love it. Love it. Love it.
 

Well, that's all from me for now. Leave comments as feedback on the post or facebook me. I'd love to hear your opinions. Also, comment ideas for me to blog about! I'd be happy to share what I can.
Much love, G.