L'Occitane En Provence Vanilla Bouquet Hand Cream Review

Before recently, I've never really been one for hand creams. I grew up with my mum constantly having a hand cream (usually Dove or Nivea) in her bag but I've never really followed suit. When I started working in a bar, I realised that my hands were getting dry and cracked, most probably because of the alcohol ruining my hands. Since then, anything tends to dry out my hands from the cold weather, cleaning and applying makeup. I was using Soap and Glory's Hand Food, but since trying L'Occitane, I don't think will go back.

I got this free from Marie Claire's November issue and I haven't really heard much of this brand before. Since first using it, I have been very impressed. I only use a small ball of this and it covers my hands, the back of my hands, fingers and wrists (on both) - and they're are really dry then I use a little bit more. I have been using this quite a lot and yet I can already tell that this small 30 ml tube will last me a long time. The cream itself is quite thin and has a silky texture which makes it a lot easier to rub into my hands. After putting cream on, some brands are quite sticky and heavy, however with L'Occitane, there's no stickiness but just moisture and a silky feeling.

I only use this once, maybe twice, a day and the moisture stays for hours. It contains 20% shea butter, which is a moisturising ingredient. The one I got was in vanilla fragrance and it smells beautiful, it's not overpowering but there is just enough vanilla to be able to smell for hours.

You can buy L'Occitane hand creams on their website: £8 for 30ml or £19 for 150ml. Remember to follow me on Twitter and on Bloglovin.

Soap and Glory Hand Food & Heel Genius Review

I wrote my first ever post on this blog about Soap & Glory's Heel Genius in December. It's quite embarrassing to look back at it but it shows just how much I loved this product and since then nothing has changed.

I got the mini version of it in set S&G set for Christmas last year and it was my first experience of using a foot cream and I was completely shocked to find out how much it actually repairs your feet!

Recently I have been working a lot which means walking around endlessly in not very supportive shoes and doing that all over the summer wrecked my feet like you wouldn't believe. I had so much dead and dry skin and at some points, my feet were in pain because of the damage that was done to the skin. Soon after using this product, my feet didn't become perfect but it did help immensely. Most of the dry skin is now nourished and when I kept applying it every night, I could feel my feet becoming more and more hydrated. The dead skin was slowly going and now, after weeks of taking care of them, they are now back to how they should be!

Soap and Glory's Hand Food is not surprisingly just as good. As the weather is getting dull and colder, my hands always start to become dry and Hand Food is so light that it dries quickly, but it still keeps the moisture in my hands for hours.

As you can see, I have upgraded my Heel Genius since the mini version I was given at Christmas and I am sure there will be many more bottles that I will go through.