bubbles and beauty

Arice, the owner of Humboldt Soap Company reached out to me to send me one of their Body Butters! I was super excited to see her line of awesome natural skin care!

A little bit about Humboldt Soap Company: Arice Miranda is the owner and founder and was a certified massage therapist in many high end spa resorts and noticed that there were many different types of skin issues with clients. Because of this, she decided to create her own affordable spa quality natural skin care products!!! You can read all about her story here!

So I was super excited to try out her body butter! It comes in 9 delicious scents and only has like 6 ingredients -- all in which I KNOW! (best part!)

When the first one shipped over to me, not sure what happened. I think it was left outside too long (it was over 90 degrees that day), the consistency wasn't correct. I sent her an email and she shipped me a new one asap (great customer service!).

When I got my second one - I was overtaken by the delicious smell of vanilla sugar. This scent always reminds me of the holidays, so I was SO excited to rip into it and use it! The first thing I noticed when I touched it was the consistency. It was such a unique feel since usually whipped body butters are relatively soft. This one was almost the consistency of raw cookie dough. Kinda thick, but kinda fluffy.

When you put it on your skin, it just melts with your body temperature. It's is quite thick and almost felt greasy when you first put it on. It took more work than other body butters to spread it across my skin. However, the cool part about it was that after I rubbed it all in, it became almost silky and powdery and didn't feel greasy anymore.

First putting it on!

Starting to rub it in!

Fully absorbed!

I especially LOVED putting this on my elbows, eczema spots, knees and heels. It seemed to really love and nourish those spots because they were so dry.

The best part about it all? The scent lingers. Usually scents disappear off my skin the moment I rub it in, but this one lingered around for a while. I loved getting a sweet kick once in a while!

Now, I like this product so much - I want to give one away to YOU guys! I want to personally buy a whipped body butter of your choice to send over to you! All you have to do is follow my blog and comment below: your name, where you're from and what scent you'd be interested in!

Thanks Arice for introducing me to your awesome soap company! I'm looking forward to trying out some of your other goodies, because I definitely loved this one! If you're interested in purchasing anything from Humboldt Soap Company click here!

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I will start off by saying... I'm NOT a fragrance mist person. When I first think of fragrance mist, I think of myself in middle school buying bath and body works sprays, spraying myself after gym and then having a sneeze attack because the scents were so potent that my nose couldn't handle it (lol). So you can imagine my hesitation to try these products when the brand reached out to me. However, I decided to conquer my fear of fragrance mists and here are my thoughts!

ActivESSENCE says that it is a high quality, affordable fragrance that offers up to 12 hours of fragrance plus instant refreshment and skin-loving benefits. It has time release microencapsulates which extend the wear of fragrance while leaving your skin soft and fresh all day long. It's packed with essential oils, natural extracts and vitamins! It even claims to provide instant moisture and soothes skin after exposure to sun, heat and other stressors!

I decided to try it in the morning. I only used one or two sprays, so I can't be certain of the moisture or soothing qualities (and I dont really anticipate me spraying it multiple times to try and get there) however, I did notice right off the bat how strong the scent was. Although it was initially very strong, the scent began to meld into my skin and left a beautiful scent.

As I went about my busy day (like I was SUPER busy!) I kept getting whiffs of scent. It was surprising because even my 'best' perfumes don't last longer than 6 hours. I generally have a travel size in my bag to respray! However, by the time I got home from work and an event at night - I will say, it did last. It was still holding tight, lingering on after a 15 hour day.

These two were by far my favorite two scents. The french vanilla lavender has a gorgeous floral, sweet lavender scent that I really loved putting on after a shower. The scent lingered all night!!! But I'm always partial because I love the lavender scent!!

Tropical Coconut coast was such a fun, sweet but tangy scent! It has coconut blossom, tiger lily, amber and verbena. It was the perfect mix to make you feel like you're celebrating summer. It is a fun scent without too much sweetness!

I quite liked exotic cherry blossom as well. I feel like you can really do cherry blossom incorrectly.. but they did it right! It is sweet, but floral - a little citric-y and the perfect blend for a sophisticated scent. I would actually consider wearing this as a 'perfume'!!

Moroccan Orchid and Amber was an incredibly warm scent. It is spicy, vanilla-y, and very warm. I imagine this would be a great scent on a cool winter evening.

Lastly was the Citrus Splash. This scent was a bit young for me - so I would never actually wear this on my skin. However, It made the perfect 'bathroom' or 'kitchen' scent. It has just the right amount of brightness to smell fresh!

I also wanted to note that the spray was very fine and the spray diameter was very large. In one spritz, it covers a lot of surface area! I feel like because of this you'll be able to use these for FOREVER!!

Overall, I really enjoyed these. Although I'm still not the biggest fan of fragrance mists, I could see why people love them. I think these are a huge step up for all the fragrance mists out there in this world - these are so long lasting (LIKE REALLY LONG LASTING) and their scents are getting more sophisticated! These would definitely be worth a shot since they are relatively inexpensive and you can throw them in your bag!

You can find these for $7.99 at Walgreens, CVS, target.com, amazon.com or drugstore.com :)

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