When I received the Zombie Survival Kit box from Fortune Cookie Soaps this year, I really liked many of the apocalyptic themed items it contained, but my absolute favorite was the liquid courage fragrance oil. I missed the release of the full sized version and had to content myself with the small vial of sugary, fruity with a soft floral finish, amazballness.
In October, in honor of breast cancer awareness month, Fortune Cookie Soap released the "Pink Courage" set of whipped cream and hand sanitizer in the liquid courage scent! I jumped on it and open it up to sniff daily!
This whipped cream moisturizer is a water based cream that is thick and rich. It absorbs nicely into skin and does not leave a greasy feeling. It's great hydration for thirsty skin.
Shapesifter soap from A Life Deliberate Soap Company smells like a fizzy, fruity combination of ripe blackberries, pink moscato, citrus peel, heirloom strawberries, golden fall raspberries and a hint of sage. I love the way many of the soaps are molded from this company, they look like pillows to me. The lather on this bar is creamy and bubbly and the scent is a wonderful sweet, fruity blend.
Together these scents are like a candy bomb! The fruity notes though different in soap and the whipped body cream blended well yet weren't overpowering because each is grounded with just a touch of earthiness.
Both of these companies offer great seasonal items and are rolling out their winter items as you read this. So don't delay, check them out today!
What are you mashing up this week?
Until next time,
Peace, Love & Loads of candy filled bubbles!
A.
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First off, I want to give a shout out to my favorite amphibian, Kermit D. Frog, for making green the new black on the muppet show - which is making it's return to TV later this month and I could not be more excited. I'm still not feeling him dumping Ms. Piggy for another pig. Ms. Piggy's wardrobe and hair game stays on 1000. Now on to this Monday's experience...
This mash up starts off with one of the signature fortune cookie soaps from Fortune Cookies Soap in the Polyjuice Potion fragrance. On their website, this fragrance is described as "a magical blend of fresh oranges, grapefruit, strawberries, ripe melon, peaches and kiwi..sprinkled with a touch of sugar." YUM! The scent is definitely magical. I was first tipped on to Fortune Cookie Soap by a soap friend Tracy, who send me a box of goodies that included their Hydrate Me balm in the intoxicating "It's 5 o'clock Somewhere?!" fragrance. I talked about this item in my first #Mashup Monday post.
I was excited to try this new scent, but hesitant because my experience with glycerin soap has been not so great. But I am a trooper and it smelled soooo good and the other products I've tried from Fortune Cookie Soap have be awesome and I LOVE the concept, it's so cute AND even comes with a fortune inside.
However, I must say that the fortune cookie soap did not bring me good fortune. The scent was fantastic. But the lather was just so so. Some soaps need a good rub to get the lather going and I rubbed and rubbed and rubbed but found the lather to be rather lacking in this soap. Also, I found it to be a little drying to my skin. It gave me that "squeaky" clean feeling that let's me know I'm definitely clean, but also I know that I need to use a heavy hitter as far as a moisturizer to keep me my skin from drying out.
In comes yet another tincture from Cream & Coco, featured in my Burn, Berry, Burn #Mashup Monday post. Tinctures from Cream & Coco are a botanically infused body oil blend that incorporates glycerin to help attract moisture to the skin as the oil seals it in. Great Stuff and the Green Mango scent (do yourself a favor, if you have not tried dried green mangos, find some. THE ARE ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!!! And when you find them, let me know where you got them because my local Trader Joe's has stopped carrying them). The scent is tangy and sweet and melony amazwballsness.
Combining the Green Mango tincture with the polyjuice potion fortune cookie soap created a fragrance combination that was a tropical delight - fun and fruity. Though the soap dried me out, the tincture helped bring my skin's moisture levels back into balance.
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Later Love Buds,
A.
A new feature, I will try to do at least twice a month. If you are a true product junkie, I'm sure, like me, you have amassed a hodgepodge of different bath and body products from numerous different companies. On #MashupMonday I'll try products from different product makers in different scents together and let you know how well they worked together. This week, it's Happy Hour on the Information Super Highway
Whiskey River Soap Company broke the internet a few months ago with one of it's humorously named soap offerings. Their "Soap for Hipsters" which is scented with coffee, bacon and craft beer quickly went viral when shared via social media. Though this particular scent did not sound appealing to me, I did check out some of their offerings which include "Soap for "Frenemies", which is scented with lemongrass & sage, "Soap for Evil Dictators", which is scented with stale tobacco fragrance, and "Soap for Underachievers", scented with margarita mix. I decided to choose "Soap for Geeks", it's "wifi scent" translates to cucumber and cilantro wasabi. Who knew that wifi smelled so tangy!
My new bubblelovin' partner in crime, Tracy sent me a delectable box of goodies from product makers I have not tried yet. One gem I found in it was from Fortune Cookie Soap - Seems they really like cocktails over there and have a fragrance called "What? It's 5 o'clock somewhere!". It smells like a fruity, slightly sweet, slightly sour, sunny drink that you might find garnished with cherries and a paper umbrella. The scent has a citrus twist, but no coconut which I absolutely ADORE as coconut is not one of my favorites and many tropical scents feature it heavily.
The product I have is their hydrate me twist up balm. This is a semi-firm butter featuring coconut oil, shea butter and cocoa butter. It is a little too soft to use directly from the tube on my skin, but wiping a dollup off with my fingers and rubbing into my skin, it is an awesome dreamy, creamy balm that is actually perfect right after a shower, even in the summer.
The Soap for Geeks has a scent that is really tangy, to me it has a kinda lime like twang to it with nice green herbal notes that mellow it out. I don't really get the wasabi notes, but maybe that just really enhances the blend. The soap itself, I found to leave me a little squeakier clean than I would like, so the hydrate me balm was a perfect compliment and left my skin soft and supple and the combination of the two scents is a sweet and tart fruity explosion of unicorns, rainbows and happiness!
What are you mashing up this week? Tag @4theloveofbubbles on instagram with a picture of your mashup with the hastags #mashupmonday and/or #bubblelove and I'll share it with all my other Love Buds!
In October, in honor of breast cancer awareness month, Fortune Cookie Soap released the "Pink Courage" set of whipped cream and hand sanitizer in the liquid courage scent! I jumped on it and open it up to sniff daily!
Shapesifter soap from A Life Deliberate Soap Company smells like a fizzy, fruity combination of ripe blackberries, pink moscato, citrus peel, heirloom strawberries, golden fall raspberries and a hint of sage. I love the way many of the soaps are molded from this company, they look like pillows to me. The lather on this bar is creamy and bubbly and the scent is a wonderful sweet, fruity blend.
