Zoella Beauty NEW Jelly & Gelato Collection at Ulta.com

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Zoella Beauty NEW Jelly & Gelato Collection at Ulta Beauty:

Is it time for a bath product update? Do fun new products inspire you to take spa-like baths at home? That certainly is the case for me. I absolutely love taking baths but don't treat myself to baths as often as I should. However, when I have fun new bath products to inspire me...I can't wait to soak in the tub! 

Zoella Beauty has been a bath go-to brand for me lately. First of all, I just adore Zoe Sugg and have been watching her beauty and lifestyle channel on YouTube for years. So, I am always excited to try out anything that she promotes. Secondly, I am a bit of a sucker for cute packaging and fantastic body products...and this line has both in abundance. 

Zoella Beauty NEW Jelly & Gelato Collection at Ulta Beauty:

Zoella Beauty's NEW Jelly & Gelato Collection is now available at Ulta Beauty. The Jelly & Gelato Collection was inspired by Zoe’s love of sweet summer treats. There are 7 delicious smelling items in the collection + an adorable beauty bag that’s perfect for summer travel.

I was able to try out a coule items from the collection and I am totally obcessed with them! Plus, I will fully admit that with the dessert theme, I am totally getting hungry for sweets just writing this post, lol!

Here are the items I tried:

Bath Frosting Bath Milk Powder:

I have always loved the soothing benefits of milk baths. This powder gives you the moisturizing benefits of a milk bath plus a fantastic fragrance! Plus, the cute packaging sitting out on my tub...swoon! 

Take a dip with this moisturizing bath frosting enriched with extracts of elderflower and pomegranate to help soften, brighten, and tone. 

Retails for $9.95

Body Pudding Body Cream: 

I am all about moisture after a bath. I really like to drench myself from head-to-toe in a moisturizer after every bath or shower. It keeps me super soft and hydrated and just keeps my body skin looking its best. In the evenings I like a thicker body cream like this one that comes out of a tub rather than a pump. So, I find that this Body Pudding is the perfect follow-up for an evening bath or shower and then I smell sooooo good going to bed! 

Treat yourself to a scoop of lightly whipped body pudding enriched with extracts of elderflower and pmegranate to help brighten, smooth, and tone. Massage into clean skin for a soft and fragrant finish. 

Retails for $12.00.

Be sure to check out this super fun Jelly & Gelato Collection from Zoella Beauty next time you are online shopping at Ulta. You won't be disappointed!!! Super fun products and they smell sooooo good. What a nice treat for yourself or for cute gifts. 

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Relaxing Spa Night: DIYs with The Vitamin Shoppe Essential Oils

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Relaxing Spa Night: DIYs with The Vitamin Shoppe Essential Oils:

My love affair with essential oils continues! 

Recently, I had a DIY afternoon creating some soothing and stress-relieving products for my evening relaxation/pampering routine! I can't wait to share my ideas and recipes with you today. :) 

I am so inspired by essential oils. I am a big believer that essential oils work for not only aromatherapy, but also for impactful change for your environment and for your overall health and emotional wellbeing. I turn to essential oils for stress-reduction, for cleaning, to alleviate symptoms of cold/flus, for stomach upset (Note: Not to take internally. Just topical applications), to elevate mood, to enhance the environment for sleep, and so much more! I even use kid-safe essential oils with my children! I love reading and researching about essential oils and learning more about what essential oils can do for you. Honestly, I am having so much fun as I learn and explore.

I know that there are a lot of expensive essential oils out there. Essential oil prices vary widely from brand-to-brand and even from oil-to-oil. Some oils are simply more expensive to produce. I have found that some brands' oils seem to be over priced. I am generally a believer that you get what you pay for. However, I am thrilled that I have found some *amazing* 100% pure essential oils for really fantastic prices. I think the key is to go with trusted brands. 

The Vitamin Shoppe has some really fantastic essential oils from their store brand oil line. I have tried a variety including Lemon, Clove, Lavender, and Cedarwood.  All of these oils are in heavy rotation in my home for everything from cleaning, to diffusing, to diluting and applying topically. Lavendar and Cedarwood are my newest Vitamin Shoppe additions to my essential oil collection and I just LOVE them!

Essential Oils for a Soothing Bedtime Routine:

I especially love diffusing a combination of Lavender and Cedarwood for sleep! I just add 2-3 drops lavendar and 1 drop cedarwood to my diffuser (beside) and diffuse all night. The scent is beautiful and it really helps me to fall asleep and stay asleep all night. 

Besides diffusing essential oils for sleep, I also love adding essential oils into my bedtime relaxation routine. Essential oils can be added to your bedtime lotion for a sleep blend, added to your bath in the form of bath salts or a bath oil, or added to a foot bath for a soothing bedtime foot soak. 

Here are some of my recent recipes for adding my newest The Vitamin Shoppe essential oils into my bedtime routine:

Essential Oil DIY Recipes:

I have been having so much fun with my oily DIY projects. I am always collecting ideas and getting inspired. If you are not already, please follow my Pinterest Essential Oil idea board.

Bedtime Footbath for Tired Feet:

I got a plug-in massaging Foot Bath for Christmas. So, I am very inspired to create essential oil blends and products to use in my new foot bath!!! 

8T Baking Soda

15 drops Lavender

15 drops Cedarwood

Add a few pumps Sweet Almond Oil (or other carrier oil)

I also like to add in some Epsom Salts in the warm water when I am filling up my Footbath tub. 

Bedtime Bath Salts with Lavender and Cedarwood Essential Oils:

Add 10 Drops Essential Oils (I did 5 Lavender and 5 Cedarwood: but you can add any Essential Oil you like)

2 T Baking Soda

2 oz Epsom Salts

My bedtime routine is not complete without a relaxing cup of herbal tea! My latest favorite is Pukka Night Time tea from The Vitamin Shoppe. It is a dreamy blend of organic oat flower, lavender, and limeflower.

Stay tuned for more Essential Oil posts including DIY recipes! Plus, I plan on featuring more topics with natural remedies for your health and well-being. So, stay tuned! 

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Holiday Beauty Gift Guide: Mini Sets from Farmhouse Fresh!

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Holiday Beauty Gift Guide: Mini Sets from Farmhouse Fresh!

My Holiday Beauty Gift Guide 2016 continues with a highlight from Farmhouse Fresh. Farmhouse Fresh is offering three travel-friendly sets featuring minis of its bestselling creams, body scrubs, facial masks and body oils. Just in time for the Holidays! The three sets are Sweeping Softness, Skin Saviors and Quick Recovery.

These product sets from FarmHouse Fresh are a great introduction to the FarmHouse Fresh brand. The sets are a great value! Plus, they make super cute gifts. FarmHouse Fresh is certainly one of my new favorite brands for luxury spa and bath treats. There is just something so special and unique about the products. 

Details about each set:

Sweeping Softness features: Sweet Cream Salt Scrub for exfoliating rough spots all over the body; Whoopie! Cream for hydrating dry hands, arms, feet and legs; and Agave Nectar Body Oil to nourish skin post-bath and keep bare arms, legs, and shoulders glistening when wearing sleeveless dresses or body-baring attire.

Skin Saviors features a trio of Shea butter-enriched body and hand creams, including Whoopie! Cream whose aroma recalls delicious Southern cakes, Rainbow Road which has a coconut and Bartlett pear fragrance and is meant to inspire or uplift those going through a difficult time in life, and Fluffy Bunny which playfully recalls a Southern mint julep.

Quick Recovery features top facial masks including soothing and refreshing Guac Star Avocado Mask, radiance boosting Splendid Dirt Organic Pumpkin Mud Mask, and exfoliating and resurfacing Pudding Apeel Tapioca Glycolic Mask. This is the set that I got to try out and I absolutely love it! Each little mask jar is enough for quite a few mask treatments. I can pick my mask depending on what my skin needs at the moment. My personal favorite is the Slendid Dirt Organic Pumpkin Mud Mask because, I fully admit, I adore anything pumpkin related this time of year! Plus, these masks really do amazing things for my skin. These are a great way to have a spa-like treat right in your own home. 

Each set includes 3 plastic jars (1 oz) and retails between $18 - $22 (Sweeping Softness 3 Step Body Sampler: $18, Skin Saviors 3 Piece Shea Butter Cream Sampler $18, Quick Recovery 3 Piece Face Mask Sampler: $22).

Be sure to visit FarmHouse Fresh online to learn more! 

You can find FarmHouse Fresh at top destination spas, resorts, and finer retailers including Glen Ivy Resort & Spas, Four Seasons, Red Door Spas, The Spa at Camelback Inn, Sandals & Beaches Resorts, as well as Ritz-Carltons, Waldorf Astoria Spas, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Woodhouse Day Spas and more. 

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Nivea Escape Challenge: Nivea's Frangipani Shower Gel, 1-800 Flowers, and Havaianas (Review and Giveaway!)

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As many of you know, I just moved into a new house a couple weeks ago. What better time to transform my new bathroom into my own little "escape"! With the hectic schedule of selling our house and the move, we didn't get a true vacation this summer. So, I am just going to have to settle for turning my bathroom into my own little paradise escape! :) 

Nivea Escape Challenge: 

Nivea set up a great challenge! Nivea sent a fabulous package for my challenge complete with Nivea's new Touch of Frangipani Shower Gel, Havaianas flip flops, and a $50 1-800 Flowers Gift Card! The goal was for me to transform my shower for 2 weeks with these items and track how my skin looks and feels. Not only was it fun for me to participate, but guess what...you readers are going to have a chance to win your very own Nivea Escape Challenge Kit!!! 

My Bathroom Transformation: My Own Little Escape!

To transform my bathroom into my own little mini vacation, I added the Touch of Frangipani Shower Gel to my shower (pictured here on my tub) and my 1-800 Flowers arrangement to the side of my tub. While I don't wear my Havaianas in the shower, I wear them throughout the day! An easy pair of flip flops are just perfect for summer!!! :)

My Experience with Nivea's Touch of Frangipani:

The goal was to use this shower gel for 2 weeks to transform your skin. I must say, consistent use of this shower gel certainly has left me feeling soft and smooth! I find the scent to be so refreshing!!! To me, it is a floral-like scent with a hint of fruit. It is not an overwhelming floral, It is a floral that not only do I like, but my husband likes to use it, too! So, it is certainly not too "girly". The scent is just very "clean". My whole bathroom smells good when I use this! I just add a bit to my body pouf and create fabulous lather for all over my body. Love it!!!

1-800 Flowers Potted Plant:

It was so hard to decide upon which beautiful arrangement to choose!!! I literally kept going back-and-forth between about 6 of my favorites from their website. Finally, I decided upon using my 1-800 Flowers $50 Gift Card to order a gorgeous potted Hydrangea plant. I opted for a potted plant as it will last for as long as you take care of it! Once it gets big enough, I plan on transplanting this beautiful floral bush in my backyard. The blossoms are white and purple and are just beautiful! Hydrangeas have long been one of my favorite plants. Plus, they really grow big and beautiful here in Georgia! Also, what really swayed me to choose this arrangement was the gorgeous mosaic pot. I was so happy to discover that it is even more beautiful when you see it in person! I am thrilled with my little potted Hydrangea! :)

Havaianas Flip Flops:

Flip-flops are my go-to shoes of Summer! So, I am just thrilled to add another pair to my assortment!!! :) Havaianas are just total classics. Honestly, I think that everyone should have at least one pair of these classic flops. ;) They are so comfortable!!! Plus, I love the gold color. They go with everything!

Win Prizes from Nivea:

Not only is there a Nivea Challenge Giveaway here on Pammy Blogs Beauty (listed below), but also Nivea is giving away prizes on Twitter! Just tweet a link to this blog post telling Nivea why would you like to try Nivea!!! :) You can win your own bottle of Touch of Frangipani!!! Be sure to use the hashtag: #NIVEAESCAPE 

There is more!!! To enter the Giveaway, please click "read more" below!!!