Origins super spot remover

Origins Super Spot Remover £13.00

Hello everyone, hope you're all well, looks like the nice weather has lasted past the weekend so I'm pretty happy. I didn't blog yesterday because in all honesty I was feeling pretty rubbish after the birthday celebrations (haha) and I had an assignment due that needed finishing.
Origins super spot remover is one of my all time favourite products and part of my night time routine. I have struggled with my skin for several years, it's oily, my make-up is always sliding off and I suffer with regular acne breakouts in my t-zone. I started medication for my spots when I was 15, and I'm now on my third treatment from the doctors and while I'll be the first to admit that my skin texture and type has improved vastly over the last four years I still feel that it needs an extra boost now and then and that's where this spot treatment for Origins comes in. Like most spot treatments it contains salicylic acid which speeds up the healing time, although it also means it might cause a slight sting on your skin, especially if you try and use it on open spots. It also contains caffeine to calm the skin and red algae to visibly reduce redness, super exfloiaters (whatever they are!) are also designed elminiate excess oil and skin blogging dirt. I am very impressed with this product as I find it really helps to attack and heal my skin in quite a short amount of time, I'm not going to lie and say that you can put this on in the morning and by the evening all your spots will be gone (if that was true I think it would be a lot more expensive!) but it will reduce spot size and redness over the day, and in a couple of days you will find your blemish fading. But even if it doesn't work in a few hours, I am still happy to invest in this product as you only need a tiny dab for each spot and it really does work in the end, unlike those spot treatments which claim to heal them within four hours.
You can buy Origins super spot remover online here, also available in some departments stores such as Debenhams, Beales or House of Fraser.

What is your favourite Origins product?

Beth xx

My Lush haul

Hello,

It was a bit late for me to blog yesterday. A friend and I went to Zizzis for tea and then went and saw Hitchcock. It was amazing, creepy but never-the-less amazing. Anthony Hopkins was perfect to play the part of Hitch and Helen Mirren... Well she's just fanstastic!

Our food at Zizzis: (l-r) Sophie's calamari rings, my goats cheese bruschetta and our rustica pizzas

Anyway, my skin is having a bit of a bad breakout at the moment so when I was in town yesterday I decided to have a little splurge in Lush hoping that if I treated my skin to some lovely, all natural products it would be nice back to me (for a change!).

The people at Lush were lovely as usual and helped suggest some products which would help clear up the breakouts without irritating them. As you know, using harsh cleansers on oily skin will simply make it worse, definitely not what I need right now. I decided to pick a range of products which I could add to my night time regime - I'll do a post about that soon - and here's what I got.

1. Herbalism, 100g - £6.95: don't be put off by the vivid green colour, mixing a pea sized amount of this solid cleanser with some water will create a light paste which is effective at removing all traces of make up (well apart from eye make up). It's unlike any cleanser I've ever used before and at the moment I'm not really sure what I think about it but it was really refreshing and incredibly gentle on my skin.

2. Tea tree water, 100g - £3.95: I love toners and after seeing Sophie Says raving about Eau Roma water on her blog I decided to take the plunge and buy one too. I decided on the smaller version so I could test out how it would react with my skin. Unlike other tea tree products I've used in the past it's not particularly strong and when you spray it straight onto your face it seems like just a normal water spray.

3. Mask of magnaminty, 125g - £4.95 : this. this has been my favourite product so far. I know I've only used it once but it was amazing. As you may have noticed from my previous Lush post I love mint so when I picked up the tester in store and realised it was made with peppermint oil itwent straight into my shopping basket there and then. It is a really invigorating mask and you can feel it working deep down into your skin as soon as you put it on. I expect further great things the more I use this product and once I've used up this small pot I'll probably invest in a full size tub.

 Wishing you all a very happy valentines day - whether you're single or not!

Beth xx

Lush "mint julips" lip scrub

Tis the season for cracked, dry lips! The bitter cold weather mixed with indoor heating is a recipe for disaster where you lips are concerned and I don't know about you but mine have definitely been suffering lately.
I picked up this cute little pot when I was browsing in Lush a couple of weeks ago, my lips were feeling red raw and one sniff of the gorgeous minty chocolate scent was all I needed to convince me to purchase it.

The scrub is incredinly gentle, as it's made from castor sugar, but still effective at stopping your lips from being dry and flaky. The jojoba oil will then keep your lips moisturised and prevent them from immediately drying out again. It's great value for money as well, because you hardly need any scrub to get your lips in tip top condition, I've been using mine everyday and hardly made a dent in tub.

One of the best things about this scrub is the fact that it's made from all natural ingredients - you can actually recognise most of the ones on the label. I know people always wonder when they wear lipgloss or lipstick, "what am I putting into my body everytime I lick my lips" but with Mint Julips there's no need worry. Infact the instructions even say on the back that you can lick off the excess. I've tried it, it's good but I wouldn't recommend eating the entire pot.

You can pick up a lip scrub in store or buy it online here for just £5.25 - also available in Bubblegum and Popcorn scents

Have you tried any other lip scrubs?

Beth xx