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Welcome back, my sleepy friend! Today’s share focuses on the amazing Kiss The Moon GLOW After Dark Face Polish – a skin smoothing sugar exfoliator to boost your mood and soften your skin before bed. I’m also reviewing the DREAM After Dark Sleep Balm – a sleep inducing pulse point balm with lavender. My love for Kiss The Moon runs deep, with its natural nighttime aromatherapy products dedicated to helping us get a beautiful night’s sleep. I love the brand’s focus on emotional wellbeing to improve sleep and make us feel whole again. Founder Jo is a woman on a mission to help us get our sleep back on track! Since falling head over heels with their LOVE Night Cream for Hands, and later the GLOW After Dark Face Oil and gorgeous rosewood Kiss The Moon Candle, I’ve been slowly adding to my Kiss the Moon collection. I hope you…

Welcome back, beauty lover! Do you love all-natural candles? I do! And today, the spotlight is on the beautiful and sleep inducing Kiss The Moon Peace Candle with Vanilla and Rosewood! This candle is designed to comfort the soul and leave a sense of contentment before bed. By now I am sure you understand my love for Kiss The Moon. This brand helps us sleep beautifully with its range of peaceful, soothing, and relaxing bedtime aromatherapy products. Their latest products are candles designed to bring about a restful night’s sleep. There are 3 candles in the range, corresponding to the brand’s aromatherapy blends. There’s LOVE with rose & frankincense, GLOW with orange & geranium, DREAM with lavender & bergamot, plus PEACE, a limited edition vanilla & rosewood candle that’s now retired – I think I bought the last one! I’m assured by Kiss The Moon that the LOVE candle is…

Welcome back, my dear friend! Today I’m focusing on vetiver skincare! Have you heard of vetiver before? You’ve probably seen vetiver oil mentioned in ingredients lists. Its INCI listing is vetiveria zizanoides. Vetiver is a perennial grass similar to other fragrant grasses such as lemongrass, citronella and palmarosa. It’s native to India, and its major producers include Haiti, India, Indonesia, and Réunion. (source: Wikipedia) Its essential oil is derived from its fibrous roots which are cleaned, dried and distilled to produce the oil. (source: Soil) What does vetiver smell like? To me, it’s warm, earthy, green, woody, and smoky. It’s a bit like a plant hug from some ancient tree in a damp forest. Vetiver is a traditionally masculine fragrance. Its grounding notes draw me in and comfort me; perfect in these times of uncertainty. Think you haven’t experienced vetiver before? You’re likely mistaken. Surprisingly, vetiver features in up to…

Hello, my dear friend! Are you a fan of body butter? I love its sumptuous richness for winter skin. And today, I’m sharing my latest discovery – Re:connection Skincare Slow Down Sunday Body Butter! Don’t you just love the name, Slow Down Sunday? It really captures the essence of this natural and organic skincare brand with their focus on reconnecting with ourselves through skincare. Back in November I tried Re:connection Skincare for the first time when I reviewed the Restoring Facial Serum. I remain impressed by this wonderful facial oil, and I knew Slow Down Sunday Body Butter would impress me too. We hope our products will serve you as means to slow down, explore and listen to your body. Slow Down Sunday will certainly bring a moment of reconnection. As we all know, a good body butter cannot be simply lathered on. Applying it with care to damp skin…

Welcome back, my green beauty! Today I’m sharing my latest LoveLula picks. This month I chose some amazing Kiss The Moon sleep goodies. Say hello to the wonderful Kiss The Moon GLOW After Dark Face Oil and soothing LOVE Bedtime Bath Salts! This isn’t the first time I’ve featured this amazing nighttime skincare on my blog. I’m a huge fan of products aiming to help us get a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling gorgeous. Which mama doesn’t want that in her life? We all know sleep is so important, and I’m personally finding it harder to sleep in a winter lockdown when it’s hard to get enough fresh air and exercise. Do you feel like that sometimes? Kiss The Moon is here to help! So let’s learn about my latest soporific additions! Kiss The Moon sleep goodies Kiss The Moon GLOW After Dark Face Oil A good face…

Hello again, my lovely! I hope you are feeling well after the Christmas break and January isn’t being too hard on you? Today, let’s lift our spirits by learning about the very lovely Tam Mason scrubs! Tam Mason creates nourishing sugar and essential oil hand scrubs that will add a touch of luxury to your hand care routine, make you feel extra pampered, and leave you with soft, sweet smelling hands. Handmade in Somerset in small quantities to maintain purity and quality, our sugar scrubs will gently feed your hands with long lasting results. January has to be the worst month for skin. Can you relate? There’s no sunlight, it’s bitterly cold, and the excesses of December are showing. Add to this all our hand sanitiser use and extra hand washing, and you have a recipe for chapped, sore hands. But Tam Mason scrubs are here to help, gently buffing…

Welcome back, beauty lover! It’s no surprise that coronavirus and its economic impact has had a devastating effect on small businesses, so it’s never been more important to shop small natural beauty stores. Now more than ever is the time to get together by supporting small, family-run, and independent local stores! We can really make a difference to the families who own and run them. I’ve used a few small shops in my time as a blogger, so I thought it would be nice to share them with you here. With so much choice, it’s good to know the stores you can trust and who share the same ethics of natural, clean, sustainable, and ethical. I hope you’ll see that it’s easy to find thoughtful gifts with a conscience! These are stores that don’t only sell their own products, but products from several brands, offering a wider choice and some…

Welcome back, my beauty friend! This post is all about natural beauty Christmas gifting! Have you thought about Christmas shopping yet? Natural beauty lovers will find all kinds of gift ideas at natural beauty stores online. With a budget of £50, I want ritualistic, sensual gifts that not only look beautiful, but offer a sensory experience. I want to delight my recipients with something unique! What did I pick up? There’s a rose ritual bedside set, a sacred and harmonious temple balm, a beautiful wild crafted snow soap from Siberia, and a personalised star sign lip balm that’s sure to bring a smile. Read on to learn more about the individual products. The truth? I can’t bear to give them away! Natural beauty Christmas gifting Kiss The Moon Love Rose Ritual Bedside Set Knowing that good sleep is fundamental to a successful beauty regime, Kiss The Moon create the most…

Do you love neroli skin care products? Me too! Neroli is uplifting, romantic and calming. Perfect for post lockdown emotional support. And so many natural beauty bloggers love neroli skin care too! One of my favourite memories as a young girl was sitting under my mum’s mock orange tree in the garden, listening to the bees buzzing around the fragrant blooms. When mock orange (aka “Philadelphus Virginalis”) is about to blossom, my thoughts turn to neroli (aka Bitter Orange, “Citrus Aurantium”). My favourite way to enjoy the benefits of neroli is in skin care. My favourite place to shop them? LoveLula of course! So this post is all about neroli – what it is, neroli skin care benefits, and my roundup of blogger neroli skin care favourites. What is neroli in skincare? Neroli in beauty care is created by adding neroli essential oil or hydrosol to skin and hair care…

Welcome back, natural beauty lovers! Today, I have a very special share for you. At first glance, Maison Sybarite could be any fine fragrance range. Glossy editorial style photography on a beautiful website, striking and elegant bottles, inviting and sumptuous fragrance names like Bed of Roses and Opulent Wood. Yet, delve a little deeper and you’ll find a fragrance company with very different ideals at its heart. The first water-based fine fragrances Maison Sybarite is the first water-based fine fragrance brand. Developed by Master Perfumer Antoine Lie with conscious natural beauties in mind. We can enjoy fine fragrances that reduce the use of harmful ingredients, are mindful of their environmental footprint, and are vegan and cruelty free. This fragrance speaks to the very soul of goodness. Once the perfume has become your ally, it will always lift you up. Not only are the fragrances conscious, but they never compromise on…