Banobagi Calming Care Cleansing Gel To Foam

Banobagi is a brand I’ve been getting to know for a few months now having been kindly sent some products to try. As a brand they believe that dermatologist grade cosmetics should be accessible to everyone, so many of their products which they use as part skincare treatments at their clinics became commercially available for use at home. I have been using a few of their products, but today I am sharing three products from the Calming Care Collection.

The Calming Care Line is said to be targeted at oily but inner dehydrated skin types, which pretty much describes my skins journey over the past few months. However, this particular line of products is said to also benefit those who have sensitive dry and damaged skin types, the ones who require moisturising and soothing ingredients to return to a comfortable state. 

The Calming Care skincare range consists of 4 products:

• The Calming Care Cleansing Gel to Foam
• Calming Care Moisture Pads
• Calming Care Moisturising Cream
• Calming Care Tone-up Sunscreen.

From that collection I have the first three and not the sunscreen and I’ve been surprised by each one.

Starting with the Calming Care Cleansing Gel to Foam, which in its beautiful pink tube is very aesthetically pleasing, in fact the whole collection is.

As with all cleansers, this one has the job of working to clean and cleanse the skin deeply to remove surface dirt and impurities imbedded within pores. As a pH-balanced gel-to-foam face wash, so again it has been designed to prevent irritation but to also calm the skin and what surprised me was it’s key ingredient: Calamine. Calamine is a childhood treatment for me, when I had chicken pox, I remember the brown bottle coming out of the fridge and it being dabbed on the spots using a cotton bud and there it would dry on my skin to help prevent itching. The same when used within this cleanser, Calamine soothes the skin and working alongside Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid to restore lost moisture, it leaves my skin feeling soft, smooth and hydrated after use.

As this is a gel to foam cleanser, when it is first squeezed out of the tube, it is a clear looking gel with very little scent, but as it comes into contact with water, that gel slowly turns into dense bubbles and it works really well with just your hands or a face cleaning brush. Simply using those bubbles on your skin to cleanse and clean is easy to do and it doesn’t leave the skin feeling dry or stripped of moisture.

Priced around £13.50 for 100ml with GlamTouch, this is a lovely introduction it Banobagi.

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Feelunique February Goody Bag 2022

It is Goody Bags galore right now - Cult Beauty, Space NK and now Feelunique joining in with the mix to make you an offer with their February Goody Bag 2022.

The hashtag #2020You is already up and running across the site which gives you list of all the current offers, some as much as 33%. However, this Goody Bag is yours for absolutely free when you spend £100 across the site.

Featuring brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Origins and This Works, inside the Feelunique Goody Bag you will find 9 products plus a blue cord bag and it said to be worth £100.

Contents

• Magnitone SWIPES (2 pcs) - wipes for make-up removal;
• This Works Stress Check Kind hands (10 ml)
• Charlotte Tilbury DELUXE MAGIC EYE RESCUE (3 ml) - eye cream;
• Nivea Q10 Power Night Cream (20 ml) - face cream;
• Origins Ginzing Gel Moisturizer (5 ml) - face cream;
• Mimitika Face Sunscreen SPF50 (10 ml) - sunscreen;
• Spacemasks Self-Heating Eye Mask - self-heating face mask;
• Clinique for Men Clinique for Men Face Scrub (15 ml) - face scrub;
• INIKA Mineral Eye Liner Black Caviar (1.2 g) - eyeliner.

This offer goes live onto Feelunique on 2nd February and as always they are limited in stock, so as soon as it runs out, it will be gone and no more will appear.

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Boujee Bougies Queen Jam Candle

With Valentines Day on the horizon, if there is an item which screams buy me right now, it is this incredible Boujee Bougles Queen Jam Candle.

Being the huge fan of candles that I am, I cannot believe it has taken me so long to find this brand because it is incredible. The brand, Boujee Bougles is the brainchild of perfumer, Pia Long, and olfactory consultant Nick Gilbert, and of the fabulous Thomas Dunckley, whom you might be more familiar with under his moniker The Candy Perfume Boy to complete the team.

"The idea behind Boujee Bougies is actually the name itself. “Boujee” means ostentatious, flamboyant, ideas above your station, ritzy, glitzy, glam and luxe, whilst “Bougies” is French for candles. Put them together and what do you get? Well, as one journalist put it this week, you get “posh candles” and that’s exactly what they are: wonderfully flamboyant candles with beautifully artistic fragrances"

So, alongside the luxe comes the fun, quirky sense of humour but without being in anyway tacky, in fact it is sleek, sophisticated and absolutely blooming lovely and I need every single candle within the range - all 5 to be precise! Presented in simple, dark glass holder with bright sticker to denote which scent your candle is, in this case a jam coloured version.

With Queen Jam, before it is removed from the outer box, the scent is very very notable, think fruity and floral and if it was a colour it would be very bright - fuschia or even magenta.  Said to have been inspired by a Finnish conserve and the scent, if you close your eyes and allow the notes to work their magic brings to head the very notion of jam being cooked on the stove, bubbling away as it does, if you have ever made your own jam. 

The scent notes rose, raspberry leaf mixed with tart berries and then in the background some leafy greens creates the most wonderful scent that throws itself around your home like it owns the place without an invitation and it is just so fresh, sharp and wonderfully sweet.

These candles, priced at £55 are worth absolutely every penny, their longevity of up to 50 hours burn time is incredibly impressive, but if this is outside of your budget, you will be delighted to hear that there is a mini version of each candle priced at £25!

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Space NK Free Goody Bag Offer

Space NK is back with yet another incredible Goody Bag offering and this one is much easier to get your hands on! All you have to do is spend £60 across the Space NK website and it is yours… plus it is worth £180!!

In recent months, Space NK has had some amazing products, including the Retinol Box, which was insanely good!

Inside this goody bag you will find brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, 111Skin, Dr Dennis Gross, Eve Lon and more besides.

Get your hands on this Goody Bag here

Here is the full list of brands and their products which you will find inside this bag: 

Contents

• 111SKIN Sub Zero De-Puffing Eye Mask x1
• Venn Age-Response Compound K Hyaluronic Booster (1ml)
• Paula’s Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant (30ml)
• Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask (10ml)
• Kiehl’s Super Multi Corrective Cream (7ml)
• Goldfaden Md Pure Start (20ml)
• Eve Lom Rescue Mask (15ml)
• Biossance Squalane + Omega Repair Cream (15ml)
• Ren Clean Skincare Perfect Canvas Jelly Oil Cleanser (15ml)
• Fresh Soy Face Cleanser (20ml)
• Dr. Dennis Gross Professional Grade IPL Dark Sport Concentrated Serum (7ml)
• Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte’s Magic Cream Moisturiser (7ml)
• Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream (7ml)
• The Ordinary Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG (30ml)
• Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Color Correcting Treatment (5ml)
• Sarah Chapman Facialift 
• Susanne Kaufmann Moisturizing Mask(15ml)
• Omorovicza Daily Vitamin C (5ml)
• Kora Organics Turmeric Brightening and Exfoliating Mask

These goody bags never hang around for long, so if you have a list of products you have been wanting to try, now is the time to get them!

Worth £180, this bag is yours for free when spending £60.

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