Soap and Glory The Righteous Butter

Since being founded in 2006 Soap and Glory have constantly wowed their customers with a luxurious line of products skincare and cosmetics. Since I first discovered Soap and Glory it has to be my all time go to brand, and I am confident I will always be able to find a product to suit my needs within their range.

Soap and Glory currently offer four body moisturizers, but my personal favourite is The Righteous Butter, which containd Shea Butter and Aloe Vera to keep my skin moisturized and softened. With it's scent of Soap and Glory's Original Pink I am constantly complimented on the feminine fragrance.

The Righteous Butter has a packaging very typical to all Soap and Glory products. I am a big fan of the girly pink packaging with the 1950's style pin up girls which adorn it. I also really love the cute and quirky slogans which appear on different Soap and Glory packages, The Righteous Butter features 'A body moisturizing formula so virtuous, you might swear you're wearing velvet!' this shows a really fun side to the company and I really like that Soap and Glory aren't taking themselves too seriously! 

Usually when a product is referred to as a 'butter' I conjure up images of a really thick, un-usable product. This is definitely not the case with The Righteous Butter! Although the formula is quite thick you really do not need to use too much, I've been using the above pot since the beginning of February and as you can see I still have plenty left so it will definitely last me a while. I use this in the evening after having a bath and my skin has never felt so soft after continuous use. 

I often have difficulty exfoliating my skin as it is quite sensitive, yet when I do exfoliate I find this is the perfect companion to flake away and really soothes my skin after using it. As well as my full size tub I also have a mini tub from one of the Christmas sets which I use and fill up when I go away so I always have a small slice of Soap and Glory with me on my travels! 

The Righteous Butter is available from Boots and Harvey Nichols RRP £10.50 

For more information on The Righteous Butter and other Soap and Glory products visit their website here

My Skin No Shine Mattifying Moisture Lotion

My Skin are a skincare brand with products aimed for teenagers, and aims to provide cheap, affordable skincare which will leave you with clean, refreshed skin. 

The Mattifying Moisture Lotion claims it "is a light oil-free daily moisturiser that softens and hydrates the skin. Kiwi extract helps moisturise while raspberry extract helps stimulate and condition, leaving the skin soft and smooth. Cimicfuga extract helps to control excess oil and shine" 

The combination of the kiwi and raspberry extract provides a pleasant but not overbearing smell to the moisturiser, which is something which always effects how I feel about a product, if I'm putting something on my skin, especially on my face, I want it to smell nice, and this certainly does! 

Unfortunately for this this is where the positives end. Above is a picture of the cap of the product, which is faulty. This is as far as it will close so it allows the product to dry up and in my opinion leaving it completely worthless. To begin with I thought this was just a faulty one-off to I skipped down to my local tesco's to buy another and the same thing happened! I personally cannot see the point in having a moisturiser packaged in a way that prevents it from being closed properly... sure this will lead to it drying up? More on this later! 

Applied

The application of this product is awful! I found the tube opening, hole mechanism way too big, (I have no idea if there's a technical term for it? The squeezy hole :D! ) so this resulted in me having too much (again wasting the product) 

'Blended'

I found with this moisturiser it was IMPOSSIBLE TO BLEND INTO THE SKIN. It just seemed to settle on my skin which felt really uncomfortable, and for lack of a better word, gross. Despite this I soldiered on and tried my best, and it just resulted in a gooey, sticky mess. The moisturiser was filled with solid clumps of the formula where it had hardened from the silly packaging and it just left an awful mess on my face. Add to this clumps of dried moisturiser (circled above) from where the product cannot be closed effectively, and I am definitely not impressed! 

Once I had blended it in the best I could I left it overnight, and I awoke in the morning to a slimey, spotty mess on my face. It had broken me out good and proper! It is safe to say that this is going nowhere near my face again, which is a real shame as it had such good potential! 

My Skin No Shine Mattifying Moisture Lotion is available for £3.50 from Tesco Supermarkets. I would like to take the opportunity to point out that this particular moisturiser did not work for my skin type, but is just that, mine. After researching this product I have found that it generally has good reviews, but this is just my personal experience with this product.