Beauty and Beyond....: Philosophy

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Sunday, 14 April 2013

Save vs Splurge - Lime Shower Gels

It's been a long time since I last did a Save Vs Splurge post, it was June 2011 to be precise.

I am aware that I have already review Soap & Glory's Sugar Crush body wash but when I started Philosophy's Luscious Lime shower gel I thought I would do a comparison post due to the significant difference in price.

Left to Right:

Soap & Glory Sugar Crush body wash - £6.50 for 500ml

Philosophy Luscious Lime shower gel - £14.00 for 480ml

Soap & Glory Sugar Crush is a lovely sweet lime scent and is more of a cream than a gel. It is great in the morning to wake you up as the scent immediately hits you, you just have to be careful you don't get slap happy with it! I normally use 3-4 pumps.

Philosophy Luscious Lime shower gel is a gel in consistency. It is quite thick which makes getting it out a little hard at times as the bottle is chunky. The lime scent is amazing! It is proper juicy lime but it doesn't fill the bathroom with an amazing scent.

As the Philosophy shower gel is over twice as much as the Soap & Glory one I would go for Soap & Glory every time. Luckily I got the Philosophy shower gel after christmas in the sales for £7.00 but no way would I spend £14.00 on it.

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

Monday, 14 January 2013

Sale hauling!

I had planned on posting this around new year but as some of you may know I ended up with Norovirus and could hardly walk let alone blog so I'm now catching up on blogging!

This is just a quick post to show what I picked up in the sales, some prices I can't remember due to buying them so long ago but I'll try my best!

New Look

Studded shoes - £5

Gem shoes - £9

Glitter slippers - £7

Brown bow shoes - £9

ASOS

Pistachio cross over bag - £12.50

Cath Kidston luggage set - £7

POP eyeshadow palettes - £10.50 each

River Island pegasus pendant - £7.50

Fekkai shea butter hair treatment - £9 (was over £30 originally!)

I will review these once I've tried them out properly.

Clinton Cards

Cherries in Snow medium jar candle - £8.49 (I did want a few of these but this was the only one left)

Lush

500ml Snow Fairy shower gels - £5

Next

Stitch bedding - £30

Knee length boots - £20

Topshop

Pauls Boutique bag - £44

I also had a giftcard which had £16 left on it so this was a real bargain as it was originally £66

Boots

Benefit Crescent Row perfumes

Ralph Lauren Big Pony perfumes

Both of these were around £19.99

Debenhams

Watercolour butterfly duvet set - £34

Philosopy shower gels - £7

Nip & Fab set - around £12.50

Not pictured:

Fogarty duck feather pillows - £20 (was £40)

Snuggledown luxury springbuck duvet - £36 (was £120)

I did order a few more Philosophy products but when my order was dispatched I got an email saying they were now out of stock. Slightly annoying as there were lots of different shower gels I could have got instead. Also when my Debenhams order arrived two of the packages were open as the bags hadn't been sealed properly.

So that's my huge sale haul! I still have a few things from Next on their way but I was really happy with what I picked up and it was all done online so I didn't even have to brave the sale shoppers!

Link me to your sale hauls and I'll check them out!

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Christmas Gifts - £10 and under

In today's Christmas Gift post everything is prices £10 and under. I love finding gifts in this price range as they're great for little stocking fillers or for secret Santa gifts.

Boots