[Geek Beauty] Fortune Cookie Soaps Fall Soap Box "As You Wish"

I absolutely LOVE Fortune Cookie Soaps as a brand. They handmake all their items and many of them have great fandom related themes to them! The Fall Soap Box wasnt any different. The them for fall is "As You Wish" and all of the items have a Princess Bride theme to them!

Each soap box always has the iconic fortune cookie soap in it! This one has the Drop Your Sword Fortune Cookie Soap, and has the smell of medieval honey apple mead, and a cute sword through it! The dread pirate Robert would be proud!

Probably my favorite item out of the box! The Mostly Dead Whipped Cream. I LOVE their whipped creams, they are super moisturizing and make your skin feel so good. This one also smells amazing! the description says it is "Golden honey drizzled over toasted almonds and pumpkin puree." And it does have a hint of pumpkin smell to it, which is probably why I love it so! 

Another item included in the Fall Soap Box was the Buttercup shampoo. I LOVE Fortune Cookie Soaps shampoos. They make your hair feel so good. The smell description on this one is "Candied run wrapped with ripe fig, bergamot, vetiver, warm sandalwood and sweet vanilla musk" This stuff smells great, and I am so happy they included a shampoo this time!

Prepare to Die OCD Hand Sanitizer. These hand santizers are the best, like seriously they smell amazing and work great, this one also has glitter in it! (which glitter makes everything better!) The scent is listed as "A warm blend of fresh baked cookie dough spiced with clove and saffron." It does smell yummy but use it to sanitize your hands not eat!

The Steam Me Up Scotty "Pit of Despair", is the one item I am really excited about trying in this set. I have not gotten a chance to try out these fizzy things for the shower. The description on their webpage makes them sound great though. "Directions: For maximum results take a hot, steamy shower. Simply unwrap & toss the shower fizzy on the floor to the back of your shower, out of the stream of water. You want it to slowly fizz during your shower, rather than quickly run down your drain. It's like your personal little aromatherapy room, the steamier the better!"

This one has the scent of patchouli and fresh cut lemongrass and tropical plumeria. So that just sounds amazing! 

The last group of items were all in smaller containers so I crammed them all into one photo you have (from left to right) Mawiage scented cotton ball, True Love Facial Cleansing Oil, Knight Cream Face Moisturizer, and the Inconceivable perfume oil. 

The Mawiage cotton ball has to have my favorite name out of all the items, it is a scented cotton ball that smells like pound cake, cardamom, pistachio and rosewater. 

The True Love Facial Clensing Oil is GREAT! This stuff makes your skin feel so good,. You put some in your hands, rub it together until it gets a milky color and then massage it onto your face, then rinse off. 

Knight Cream Face Moisturizer is a great smooth moisturizer that soaks into you skin and helps keep your face from drying out. 

And lastly the Inconceivable Perfume oil is a great smelling perfume of "fall woods, black amber and poached pears". It smells wonderful. 

There are a lot more items in this set that were not included in the soap box, and you can check them out on the Fortune Cookie Soaps webpage. A bunch say out of stock right now, but they restock regularly as they make products since all are handmade and shipped out. You can also find the link to their soap boxes as well (which come out four times a year, and cost $19.99.)

[Body Products] Fortune Cookie Soaps "We're All Mad Here 2.0" Whipped Cream

 

In spring of 2015 Fortune Cookie Soaps released their Wonderland soap box. Now they are back doing a 2.0 line, and have sent out some samples of their whipped creams. I was lucky enough to get the "We're All Mad Here 2.0" in a recent order and I love, love, love this stuff. I have almost used this entire sample because it smells so good!

 

I was so intrigued by the whipped creams when I started looking at Fortune Cookie Soaps products last year. I wasn't sure at first if it was like Lush's  body conditioners or more like a lotion. It is a lotion or body butter style thick cream that is super moisturizing! (they also have some with Aloe in them!) The webpage describes this fragrance as "Playful mint waters and natural leafy green notes perform a masterful balancing act with musky rich cedarwood." for the original run, and the 2.0 Also has hints of watermelon in it!. This stuff smells amazing, funny enough with the scent description this would not have been one I would pick up based on the fragrance description, but I do love this and hope to get some once it is released

 

The cream is a two colored swirl in the container, the bottom being purple and the top being pink. And this stuff is super moisturizing, it is thick and soaks into the skin without a residue or oily feeling, which is great! 

 

It reminds me a lot of a mixture between lotion and body butter, it isn't runny but it isn't that super thickness you get either.  It, to me, is the perfect blend. You can check out Fortune Cookie Soaps here, and the Wonderland 2.0 line will be out eventually (no actual date from them) so keep an eye out for it and the other fragrances they will have!

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[Geeky Body Products Review] Buttered Buns Studios Body Wash and Lotions

At Katsucon this past February I picked up some items from Buttered Buns Studios. Three lotions and a body wash. I am always excited when I see small indie brands making beauty products and try to support them as best I could. All of the products at Buttered Buns Studios looked super cute and they had a really good variety at their artist alley table.

They had a wide range of fragrances and products, from chap-sticks, to lotions to body washes. I opted to get three lotions and one body wash since they had a special going on (I believe it was buy three get one free, if I remember right)

The first lotion I got has a super cute name "Filler Episode" which we all have seen and either love or hate in a series we are watching. This lotion is a watermelon scented lotion smells amazing, and it is hard to find good watermelon scented products so I was excited when I smelled this one!

Blackberry Bramble Tea is probably my favorite out of the three lotions I got. I love tea scented fragrances and when you add fruit to them they get even better. I also adore the artwork on the bottles! This lotion has a spicy smell along with the fruitiness which is a nice change from the one above which is very fruity. 

The last two I purchased were the same fragrance, but I got a lotion and body wash. "Ocarina of Lime" was too good to pass up. I mean first the name is a pun, and I love puns. Second it is lime scented, which is always a pleasant smell to me. The body wash lathers well and the smell stays strong while you are using it. The lotion smells exactly the same as the body wash and is a great follow up after using it. Out of the three I purchased, this is the most subtle fragrance of the three. The lotion (like all the others) also makes your skin feel really soft.

I would definitely look up Buttered Bun Studios, or visit them at a con and check out their stuff! I am happy I got what I did, and I am sure it will not last long. You can find them here on FB. Other links for their social sites are on their card above!

[Top 5] My Top 5 Favorite Lotions!

I use a lot of different products, and some of them work for me and some make my skin break out into horrible red hives. These five will not be the ones that break me out into hives, but the lotions I absolutely love! 

#5: Island Bath & Body Lotion in Maui Tea Rose

This is a great brand that I purchased through ABC Stores Hawaii. It has an amazing rose smell to it and is very moisturizing. They come in two sizes, a regular sized lotion bottle then a small 2 oz. travel sized bottle (that I have and retailed for $5.00) The lotion is made in Hawaii and has Macadamia Nut and Kukui Nut oil's in it. 

#4: Bath and Body Works Hand and Body Cream (Scarlet Pumpkin and Twisted Peppermint)

I do not use a lot of Bath and Body Works products (I love their candles so much more than their lotions.) and generally only get their Moonlight Path items. But occasionally their seasonal fragrances get the best of me, and this body cream is amazingly moisturizing and great for using at night before you go to bed! You do have to give it a good shake before using or it can settle a bit. These bottles retail for $13.00. 

#3: L'Occitanne Rose Body Milk

I have an extreme weakness to three fragrances, Cherry, Bergamot and Rose. Which is why most of the lotions on this list are rose scented, since lotions with a strong Bergamot scent are hard to come by. L'Occitane really has it down with the amazing rose scented lotions. I will come out smelling like a bouquet of roses if I use too much of this, and that is totally OK with me. They also have a body wash that goes along with the lotion.  A 8.4 fl. oz. bottle retails for $27.00

#2: The Body Shop Strawberry Puree Body Lotion

This lotion is amazing! It is made with shea butter and has a glycerin feel to it. It is cooling, so it feel amazing when on the skin! I am sad that The Body Shop got rid of their Cherry lotion, so Strawberry is my go to fragrance for them now. I also love the pump bottle over the squeeze like all the ones above. This one retails for $13.00 for a bottle, but they always do sales and you can get them cheaper normally. 

#1:  L'Occitane Velvet Hand Cream ("Rose" and Jasmin and Bergamote")

I always have one of these little hand lotions in my purse. They travel well and a little bit goes a long way. And L'Occitane is one of the only companies in the US I have been able to find a somewhat decent Bergamot smelling lotion from at the moment (even though the Jasmine is the dominant fragrance in it.) The rose, just like the body milk, will make you smell like a million roses all at once (which to some may be a bit strong, to me it is just amazing.) The Jasmin and Bergamote has a very subtle and pleasant smell to it. These retail for $12.00 

I have extra dry skin so I am a huge fan of lotions, and when they smell good it is even better! But first and foremost it needs to do its job of not making my skin dry and itchy, which all of these above do! The fragrance is just an added plus!