Review - Naked Detox shampoo and conditioner

I am slowly trying to replace all my beauty products with ones that don't contain parabens or SLS and a brand which doesn't use these is Naked.

Naked create their products using 97% natural ingredients so this is a big thumbs up for me!

I have problems with eczema on my scalp and have to be careful what products I use otherwise I'll end up an itchy, flakey scalp which isn't a good look.

I bought Naked's Detox balancing shampoo and conditioner which contain peppermint and sorrel leaf.

One of the first things I noticed about these products is that you need very little. The shampoo foams and lathers up really well and the conditioner is quite rich and thick. In fact it is a little hard to get out of the tube.

It left my hair smelling fresh and feeling soft, silky and manageable. It didn't aggravate my scalp and unlike other shampoo and conditioners I could quite happily use this everyday.

This is priced at £4.07 and available from Naked and Boots.

Review - Naked eye gel

A few months ago Naked brought out it's skincare range which included cleanser, toner, make up remover, face wash, moisturiser and eye gel. I bought a few products from the range and first I tried was the eye gel.

With soothing cucumber and camomile I was expecting great things from the gel and it is supposed to be suitable for sensitive skin so I presumed would be fine for my non-sensitive 'normal' skin. But nope, it didn't work on my skin.

The gel was clear and wasn't sticky. It sunk into the skin quickly but my gosh it made my eyes sting like crazy, yes they hurt...alot. I tried using less but nope, they still stung. I tried using less the next day but they still stung so I stop using it.

Overall I was disappointed as I love other Naked products but this one just didn't agree with me. I have since passed this onto my mum who has no problems with it at all. Maybe it's just me!

This costs £7.49 for a 15ml tube and is available from Superdrug and Naked online.

Haul - Clothes & more!

On Tuesday I went to York for a shopping day out with my mum and it was nice going and having money to spend for a change. And as I'm moving back home soon I could afford to spend a little more than I normally would have so here is what I bought.

New Look

Floral print top - £12.99

Bird print top - £9.99

 

Rusty coloured t-shirt - £6.99

Also bought:

Skinny jeans - £9.99

Black trousers - £12.99

Next

Stripe t-shirt - £18

Stripe jumper - £16

 Grey jumper - £18

Marks & Spencer

Purple button shoe boots - £29.50

 These are much nicer in real life and they are so comfy.

Superdrug and Boots

Africa bronzer - £2.99 (from a little shop called Zest)

MUA heaven and earth palette - £4 (Superdrug)

Little White Lies tanning lotion - £9.99 (Boots)

Mama Naked stretch mark cream - £4 or 2 for £5 (Boots)

 

 Paperchase

Butterfly letter tray - £7.00

Argos

Bush freeview recorder - £99.99 (was £149.99)

So there is my massive haul, oh and I also bought two books! Have you bought anything lately? Let me know in the comments below!

Haul - Naked Body Care

Yes I bought the £8 Groupon for £20 off an order at Naked Body Care as I thought it would be a great opportunity to buy somethings which are on my wishlist and my order arrived this afternoon! And I have to add it was beautifully packaged:

What I ordered:

Clear Anti-Dandruff Shampoo - £3.99

Clear Anti-Dandruff Conditioner - £3.99

Looking Good Soothing Eye Gel - £7.49

Up Tone Girl Gentle Toner - £4.49

Perfect Getaway Cream Cleanser - £4.49

Blinkingly Lovely Eye Make-up Remover - £4.49

The make-up remover, eye gel and the shampoo and conditioner are all new products and I'm really excited to try the anti-dandruff ones as I am trying to find a good paraben and SLS free product to control my scalp eczema.

I will review all of these once I've used them!

Did you buy the Groupon, what did you buy? Which Naked products would you recommend?

Haul - Boots and Savers

Ok, ok, I know that I said I wasn't going to buy anymore toiletries until I'd used up my stash but these ones are ok as the majority of them were free! 

Boots

These were free because I got them with my points! All Organic Surge products at Boots are currently on 2 for £8 and considering most of them are over £8 now the VAT increase has been effected this is a real bargain. These were £8.16 each so I saved £8.32!

And last week I had to return something but I didn't have my receipt so had to have an exchange. I got Vaseline aloe vera gel and cocoa butter gel which were 2 for £5 (or £4.89 each). I like the idea that they are a gel so they will be lighter to apply in the summer when lotions and butters are sometimes too rich.

I also got Naked rose body wash (£3.99) and Naked starflower body wash (£4.07), Tresemme naturals mini shampoo and conditioner (£1.32 each) and a Bourjois little round pot eyeshadow in shade 13 (£5.99).

Savers

Fee at Makeup Savvy tweeted about finding these Naked products in Savers so the next day when I was in town I popped in to check them out. They were £1 each instead of around £3.99 and I got a bottle of white ginger body wash, a tube of cocoa butter body cream and a tube of rice shower scrub.


Have you tried any of these products? What did you think?

What I did with my Soap & Glory OOTW...

As mentioned in a previous post, here, I used my Soap and Glory OOTW from Boots as a storage bag for my new beauty products which I want to use after I've used my hoard up. I thought I'd do a quick post to show what exactly is in it.

Overview of my bag

Sanctuary goodies from another OOTW

Dead Sea Source products

Soap & Glory products:

Glad Hair Day shampoo x2

Glad Hair Day conditioner

iFoam shower gel

Butter Deluxe body butter

Heel genius foot cream

Scrub your nose in it x2

Hand Food

More Soap & Glory:

Clean Mary (mini)

Catch a Wrinkle (mini)

Flake Away scrub

Breakfast Scrub

Off Your Face wipes x3

Girligo moisturising body mist (mini)

Fab Pore mask x2

Hand Food (1 full size & 1 mini)

Clarity face soap

Clear Here moisturiser

Sexy Mother Pucker lipgloss

Naked shine shampoo

Naked Detox shampoo and conditioner

Naked Sensitive shampoo and conditioner

Naked Coco de Mer body wash

Lee Stafford grow faster mask

Lee Stafford big fat texturised hair spray

Sally Hansen kwick off nail polish remover

Bomb Cosmetics bath bombs

I'm excited to used all of these but as my challenge of my product use up post said I'm going to use up all of my 'old' products before I'm going to start on these. It's a little incentive for myself!

Did you manage to get one of these Soap & Glory bags? What are you using it for?

End of year review

Well it’s almost a new year, 2010 has flown by. It’s scary to think 2011 is only round the corner.

This is my end of year post. A round up of everything from favourite products, favourite bloggers, product wishlist and more!

Products I loved in 2010

• Mineral foundation - Collection 2000, Lily Lolo
• Revlon mascaras - Double Twist and Grow Luscious
• Good Things skincare
• No7 kabuki brush
• Avon freeze dry nail spray
• Vaseline cocoa butter lip therapy
• Burts Bees lipbalms
• Colour B4 hair colour remover

Favourite bloggers of 2010

I follow so many different beauty blogs but there's only a select few which I read religiously and this is because the bloggers are so down to earth and it feels like you're reading something written by a friend. So with this in mind my favourite bloggers of 2010 are:

• Olivia - Olivia Writes
• Lou - Sprinkle of Glitter
• Sherrie - Mirror, Mirror on the wall
• May - May Loves Make-up

And all these lovely girlies are on Twitter so get following them on there too!

2011 product wishlist

This next year Im not going to go mad with buying new things, my post coming up in a couple of days will detail more, but I do have a product wishlist which I've been collating over the last few months. And it's quite lengthy! So here it is:

A’Kin

Lemongrass shampoo - £7.49

Mandarin shampoo - £7.49

Jojoba conditioner - £7.49

Naked

Salt scrub - £6.99

Orange blossom body wash - £3.99

Sensitive shampoo - £3.99

Sensitive conditioner - £3.99

White ginger body wash - £3.99

Facial toner - £4.49

Facial cleanser - £4.49

Organix

Coconut shampoo - £5.25

Coconut conditioner - £5.25

Vanilla shampoo - £5.25

Vanilla conditioner - £5.25

Everyday Minerals

Matte base

Intensive base

Nick Nack blusher

Like lady bird lake blusher

Multi intensive concealer/eye primer

Dark brown brow colour

Benefit

Bella Bamba face powder - $28 (released mid January in the UK)

Lily Lolo

Nude concealer - £7

PeepO - £7

Barely Buff foundation - £12

Une

Mineral foundation powder - £9.99

Nip + Fab

Tummy Fix - £18.95

Cellulite Fix - £17.95

Bust Fix - £15.95

The majority of these brands have their own websites which you can buy from but if not they're all available to purchase off the net.

Blog posts

I've got lots of ideas for blog posts to do next year and loads of reviews to write including:

• Veet in shower hair removal cream
• Veet pre -epilation spray
• Philips Satin Perfect epilator
• Eyeliners
• Soap & Glory Sit Tight
• Toni & Guy brunetter shampoo & conditioner
• Schwarzkopf got2b collagen lift hairspray
• And many many more!

And finally.....

All that I have left to say is that I hope everyone has a happy new year and I'll 'see' you all in 2011! xXx

Christmas present haul

I hope you all had a lovely christmas and got lots of lovely presents. Just thought I'd do a quick haul post to show what I got. There's nothing really exciting but thought I'd show you anyway!

Yankee candle tarts - from my secret santa at work

Bath bombs from Bomb Cosmetics - From my friend Kerry

Heart necklace and earring set - from Chris

Buckle bracelet from New Look - I returned something Chris bought me

and bought this instead.

Lancome Tresor in Love giftset - From Chris's mum

Cat key ring and dog compact mirror - from my friend Sharon (I call her mummy number 2!)

All of the above are from my mum and dad

Picture from Next for my livingroom

Sweets from Next (I'm polishing the Snowies off as I type!)

Handmade bracelet off a little jewellery stall on our town's market. It was only £3.90,

I was with my mum when she got it!

Decoupage sheets for my card making and crafting

Naked body wash and hair care

The hand mixer in the photo below is also off my mum and dad

Mirrored tea light holder, Dannii Minogue's autobiography and

£40 for some new cutlery all off my Grandma

I have some more presents off some friends but one I haven't had time to catch up with and one present is stuck in the post somewhere.

What did you get for christmas?

Product Wishlist - Naked

This is another product wishlist off another brand which contains no nasty things: parabens, SLS, petrochemicals and phthalates. This brand is Naked!

I first became aware of Naked after seeing it in Boots but I never really took much notice of it until recently. I tried their hand wash and didn't really like it, it was far too gloopy for my liking but that could be because it isn't full of rubbish like the stuff mentioned above.

Naked do quite a wide range of products: shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, body lotion, handwash etc. So here's my list:

1. White Ginger body wash - £3.99

2. Detox Deep Cleanse shampoo - £3.99
3. Sensitive shampoo - £3.99
4. Detox Deep Cleanse Conditioner - £3.99
5. Sensitive Conditioner - £3.99
6. Orange Blossom body wash - £3.99
7. Coco de Mer Body Wash - £3.99
8. Sea Minerals Salt Scrub - £6.99

(Images from: Naked Online)

Naked is available (as far as I'm aware) to buy online on their website and at Boots.