REVIEW: Soap & Glory - Heel Genius

[I posted this on my old blog just as I stopped blogging on that blog, so I thought I'd transition it to this one!]

Now that it's summer (okay, at the moment in the UK it's raining...we had our summer last week...) you'll find you're getting your feet out more! That means that you need to keep on top of your toenails and making sure that you're feet aren't dry and cracked. 

To save you time looking the shelves for something that'll moisturise your feet, I've found you something - Soap & Glory - Heel Genius. 

I bought this from Boots and it cost £5.50 which is about the standard Soap and Glory kind of price range. Similar to The Scrub of Your Life, also by Soap and Glory - which I reviewed here, it's not a product I'd use everyday, so I feel that it lasts me longer!

It's quite thick and moisturising, and some people have commented that they're not fans of the smell - but I think it smells fine, not an 'it'll do' kind of fine, a standard foot cream smell..I guess. Now, the problem with this product is that you have to apply it to your feet and then you put on socks - now, I for one, don't like to wear socks in bed at night....so I have tried and tried different ways to get away with not doing this, but sadly it doesn't have the same effect. However, take off your socks in the morning and your feet are nice and soft!

I've also tried it in the morning, I put the cream on and then put my socks on and sat around for a bit - anything to try and get away with not wearing socks at night! Sadly, it doesn't work as well, so looks like I'll have to put up with socks at night if I want nice soft feet!

I'd recommend you give this a try, or if you have tried anything else that's similar then let me know in a comment below! :)

REVIEW: Soap & Glory - The Scrub of Your Life

Soap & Glory The Scrub of Your Life - Get it from Boots for £7.00

I bought this way back in October and it's finally empty. So I can give it a nice review based on how it's lasted for the past 9 months or so. I didn't use this every time I went in the shower, it was a once a week job, just before going out.

Now, I know what you're thinking 'why didn't you buy Flake Away?'  - well, although the Flake Away is currently 50p more expensive and it contains more product (which I didn't know?) it comes in a screw lid tub. I don't know if you've tried opening those when you've got wet hands when you're in the shower, but it's pretty difficult! The Scrub of Your Life came in a squeezy tube, which I much prefer.

With one squeeze, you can normally do quite a lot. I used to use about 1-2 squeezes to do my whole body (I am 5ft 2, but I don't think that matters too much!) I mainly focus on my legs and then elbows and work the remaining all over the body.

Now, it looks like this:

It's quite gel-like and it has pink flecks in which are your exfoliant. It has quite a perfumed smell - now, I don't know if this is the generic Soap & Glory smell...as I've never tried any other products (apart from Heel Genius, which I know has a a different smell)I quite liked the smell and it reminded me of a perfume I've tried, but I can't quite put my finger on which one! If you didn't like the smell, just use your shower gel afterwards and it should be gone! I used to wash first and then exfoliate, but I'm not sure how much of the smell was left on your skin as I used to use a Cocoa Butter moisturiser afterwards.

Overall, I really liked this product and I'd definitely recommend it. Would I try this again? Yeah, I would. But I'm not sure whether I'd try the Flake Away to compare

~ Have you tried this before, if so, what did you think? If not, what's your go to body scrub?