Lush Sleepy | Review

Hello sleepy people! So, I've been on the hunt for a tub of Sleepy for the loooongest time, but every time I've gone to try find one they've been sold out. So like any sleep deprived person, I went to Lush in Braehead everyday for 4 days until I managed to get my hands on a tub. 
So since I managed to get my hands on it myself and my lovely assistant aka boyfriend aka David, have been trying it out. Davids biggest issue in trying to fall asleep is me. I very much struggle to sleep, and I tend to talk Davids ear off until either I fall asleep or he drowns me out enough to sleep himself. 
I'm pretty much permanently exhausted, I get up early -  say early its around 10 - and workout and go to bed around midnight every night. My issue is though that it takes me ages to fall asleep and then when I do sleep I'm up every few hours. From needing to pee the tiniest bit or having sore legs, and even Davids loud snoring, its a pain in the ass, and not to mention exhausting.

So David and I have been testing this out since I got it and the results are very encouraging to say the least. Every night we used it I nodded off really quickly and only woke up once around 7am to pee - hindsight I should probably have stayed up as when I went back to bed I didn't want to get up till waaaay after 11. 

We forgot to use it one night, and out of curiosity I used one of those sleeping trackers to see how not using it affected me. I got just over 5 hours of sleep it took me hooooours to fall asleep. I felt awful when I woke up too, it was unreal how bad I felt for not using sleepy. 
Another thing I noticed is that when we didn't use it, David's snoring got so bad! Like my mum could hear him snoring while she was in the other room! The next day we used it and his snoring had near enough gone completely!
The cream is a lovely purple tone with slight flecks of glitter in it. I didn't notice the glitter until David pointed it out, the glitter isn't that obvious though so don't worry about that. The cream is so moisturising too, any dry bits I've had on my skin has gone now. 
So not only does this fix all my sleepy problems, it also fixes all my dry skin issues. If you can get your hands on this I would recommend trying it, for me its helped loads in regards to my sleep. If you want help dosing off and staying sleeping then I'd recommend trying this.

Joules | Fabulous Fingers and Toes set

The only part of my body - apart from my face - that I make an effort to take care of is my feet. that could be because when I was younger I got an infection in my foot that travelled up my leg - it hurt so so so much. Ever since then I have made an effort to look after my feet. My feet still don't appreciate the effort. Any sets for foot care I tend to jump at the chance to get. So when I saw this one by Joules in the Boots sale I didn't think twice at picking it up. I hadn't seen this in the store before the sale - hence why I didn't pick it up sooner.
I got this for a measly £7 (£8 without staff discount). Even if the products were rubbish, I now have a pretty box and a pack of mini nail files. I think the little pack of mini nail files was a nice little extra - and for me a much needed item. I always seem to break my nails when I'm out and never have a nail file to stop it breaking to far - I usually end up with one really short nail and the rest are long. The little nail file pack contains 6 mini nail files and are a pink and white box print - similar to the foot lotions print.

The set contains basically everything you could need to take care of you hands and feet. You get their Tantalising Toes Foot Scrub, Fabulous Feet Foot Lotion, small bar of soap, How Handy Hand Cream and a foot rock - for buffing away dead skin. Something in the tin smells really zesty - but from having a sniff at the products I can't actually figure out what it is that smells like that - I figure it has to be the soap, right?

I've had a foot rock in the past and I quite liked it - but my mum got me a PedEgg, so it got replaced. I will use the little foot rock in the bath when my skins a bit softer - it might be slightly easier to soften my skin up.

The How Handy Cream has a slight lemony scent to it - which now makes me think the zesty scent is coming from all the products. When I first used it I thought the cream would be slightly harder in consistency than it was - more body butter feeling. It just looks hard, but its not. It's a really soft, quickly absorbing cream. It instantly makes your hands feel silky soft, and it definitely has a slight lemony scent to it. The little tub contains 50ml of product - Soap and Glory's travel sized Hand Food has the same amount of product as this. I think I would prefer to carry the small tub in my bag over a small tube - it just seems more compact and like it would take up less space.
The bar of soap - now is this a body soap or just a hand soap? I think I'll keep it as just a hand soap, keep it on my sink for people to use. It has the same sort of scent as the hand cream, and is 50g of soap. I've not taken its wrapper off yet - purely down to the fact that the wrapping for it is so darn cute. The little floral pattern with the joules rabbit holding it together - I mean how could you remove that?

 I kind of love the name of this scrub - Tantalising Toes. How cool is that?! Of the times I've used this scrub I've used it with the foot stone to give my feet a good buffing - they deserve to have the living daylight buffed out of them. First few time the dry skin didn't completely go away - but the bits that were once really hard had begun to soften up.

The name of this isn't nearly as cool, but the lotion is pretty darn good - so that makes up for the lack of a cool name. Again, the same as the soap and hand cream, it has a lemony zesty scent. After using the foot scrub ( which I tried to use every other day) I applied this. Even on days that I hadn't used the scrub I applied this. I applied a good dollop onto my feet then put a pair of socks on over the top to make sure my feet got a really good moisturising.

Have you tried anything from Joules before?

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Re-Gen Cream

I've used Re-Gen cream for a couple of years now, and I think that kind of gives me a good idea of how well this works.
Let me first say a little about what Re-Gen cream is and what its for. Basically Re-gen is a cream that is meant to help prevent and provide treatment for things like stretch marks, scars, dry skin and blemishes. I'm not 100% sure where sells this, but I know that ASDA does - if not any more then they used to. I also think that it costs around £5. I went for this over bio oil - which I have used in the past - because it was slightly cheaper.
I'll tell you a little bit about why I started using it. When I was 11 I had my appendix removed, and I was left with quite a scar. Unfortunately the scar was quite big and noticeable. I had tried loads of different things that claimed to reduce the appearance of scars, nothing really did. That was until I tried this.
I found that my scar was less red and was softer after just a couple of weeks of using Re-Gen cream. It is still noticeable 7 years on, but not nearly as much as before I started using this. I've used this for dry skin and stretch marks on my legs - never for blemishes though...
The cream is white and is really thick. It doesn't smell like anything in particular, it just smells creamy. The tub is 125ml and it lasts forever! This tub lasts a seriously long time, a little bit goes a long way. It absorbs quickly into the skin and I think it really does work.

I really recommend this, if you have a scar, stretch marks or dry skin.

Do you have any creams you've found that work?

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