January Empties

Here's my empties for January.

The January Love Lula Box

Following up on December's great box, January's is also another stunner!

The Love Lula Christmas Gift Guide

Green beauty shopping site Love Lula is a great place to start for natural, cruelty-free treats for the folks in your life. 

My favourite certified organic products

To celebrate organic September with the Soil Association, I decided to round up my favourite certified organic beauty products.

Review: The July Love Lula Beauty Box

Love Lula's July box was a bumper one featuring seven items! 

July Empties

Here's what I used up during the month of July.

November Empties

I've got a bumper lot of empties this month with some truly wonderful products.

November Love Lula Picks

These are the three products I picked from Love Lula this month.

Focus on Natural Baby and Child Skin Care

My little Z isn't a baby anymore, he's three, but he'll always be my baby 😍. From birth he had very dry skin and at around six months he had a horrendous nappy rash that was complicated by a fungal infection. It took me until last year to realise that all the crap I was putting on his body was what was causing the problems. Garbage like Johnson and Johnson baby wash flared the eczema up in the first place and paraffin-based prescription creams just exacerbated it.

My Autumn Pampering Products

Now the nights are drawing in, I won't lie about my hibernation-like existence. I like to put my pyjamas on when I get in from work, get the child in bed and pamper myself with nice products followed by a good book/TV programme and glass of wine. (Okay, now I'm lying, the glass of wine comes even before the pyjamas). Is anyone with me or am I just a saddo who needs to get out more?

Here are the products livening up the dark nights at the moment:

BALM BALM BEAUTY BALM

Review: September Love Lula Beauty Box

Here's what was in September's Love Lula Beauty Box

Review: Love Lula Hair and Body Selection Box

Love Lula frequently have one-off boxes on their site which are either previous beauty boxes or a new curation. These go like hotcakes so when I saw their hair and body selection box, I snapped it up.

Review: August Love Lula Beauty Box

A belated look at the August Love Lula Beauty Box.

What's inside:

BALM BALM CHAMOMILE FLORAL WATER £8.50

Review: Balm Balm Rose Floral Water

Since I first tried Balm Balm products, I've made sure to keep them as one of the brands I repurchase from. After using the Frankincense toner and finding it nice but stinky 😀I knew I wanted to try a different toner from the range.

June Empties - Balm Balm, Coconut King, Baby Boo Bamboo

Hmm, there's not a lot to show for this month. Other bloggers put me to shame. Perhaps I threw a few things away without realising. Anyway, without further ado.

BALM BALM FRANKINCENSE HYDROSOL SOOTHING FACIAL TONIC

Review: Balm Balm Baby Balm - Truly A Miracle Product

Around March time, both me and my three year old son, Z, were suffering from eczema. I had a patch of eczema on my right shin that was a year old. It had healed once (after a holiday) and come back just as bad two months later. Z's eczema was off and on, with flare-ups for no apparent reason.
At the time I was using conventional moisturisers on my leg and prescription creams on my son. I had always found body scrubs of benefit with my dry skin so I was using a scrub on my leg that said it was so mild, it could be used every day. This product contained SLS, which I'm sure contributed to a vicious cycle for me.

I had just started exploring natural products and the first one I chose for the two of us was Baby Balm by Balm Balm. This contains just five ingredients: shea butter, sunflower oil, beeswax, calendula and jojoba oils. Balm Balm are cruelty-free and Leaping Bunny approved, plus Soil Association certified.