REVIEW ON THE YARDLEY LONDON ENGLISH ROSE MOISTURIZING BODY LOTION.

Hello ladies, hope you are all doing good. its been raining crazily for past one week in Chennai. whether is getting colder everyday. schools and colleges has been declared holiday for past few days or since diwali i should say.. Chennai is making history basically by having heaviest rainfall of all time. ;-)

         So yeah lets get into todays topic. Today am gonna review a body lotion that am currently loving. It is by YARDLEY LONDON. I have dry skin. Even though i have few staple body lotions or moisturizers , I try lots of them just to know what i like or what works well for me. so i ended up picking this from a supermarket.

PRICE : 99 for 100 ml

SHELF LIFE : 24 months.

WHAT DOES THE PRODUCT SAYS ?

with over 200 years expertise, yardley london selects only the finest ingredients for its products. this luxurious lotion comes enriched with active vitamin b3 and c, and freshly plucked roses from original english gardens. an effective anti oxidants, vitamiv cretains youthfulness of skin, while b3 removes marks, making skin fairer. among with the timeless scents of romantic roses.

INGREDIENTS

water,glyceryl stearate, dimethicone,isopropyl myristate,perfume,cyclopentasiloxine,cyclohexasiloxine, glycerine,palmitic acid, stearic acid, ascrbyl, tetraisopalmitate, bht, carnbomer, cetearyl alcol, ceteareth20, cetyl alcohol, sodium hyaluronate, hydrogenated olive oil, niacinamide, polysorbate 20, disodium edta, sodium hydroxide, phenoxyethanol, methylisothiazolinone.

OMG thats a lot of chemicals. :-/ typing the ingredient list is the hardest thing ever. :-(

MY THOUGHTS ON THE PRODUCT 

It comes in a silk like smooth plastic bottle with a pump up mechanism. i find it cute but not travel friendly. It smells amaizing like roses. It smells exactly like yardley english rose body spray. obviously ;-) coz this one is the matching body lotion for that body spray. It comes in a 200ml bigger bottle too. and it retails for 180 rs . They have few other variants as well. since i loved this lotion,  i bought sandalwood body lotion and musk body lotion from this range yesterday. the fragrance stays on me for 2 hours.

 It says it lightens and moisturizes the skin. But i do not find any lightening actions going on. But it moisturizes the skin really well. I swear this product gives a silky texture to my skin. It lasts for a whole day. :-)

That is how much product you get on a single pump. I use three to four pumps of this lotion to moisturise my entire body.

It has a really nice silicon like texture to it. It is neither too runny nor too thick. Perfect lotion consistency. It gets absorbed into the skin quickly .

PROS 

1. gives silky smooth texture to the skin
2. affordable
3. smells like roses.
4. pump mechanism is hygienic .
5. moisturizes the skin really well .
6. the effect lasts for a whole day.
7. it gets absorbed quickly into the skin.

CONS

1. The ingredient list. it kinda scares me. :-(
2. it is not a travel friendly packaging. but i really dont mind coz i have travel size mini bottles to carry my lotions with me .
3. may not suit extremely dry skinned people.

OVERALL THOUGHTS

It is a really good body lotion for the price you pay. makes the skin smooth. the effect is longlasting. it is good if you have dry skin. but it is not going to work for people with extreme dry skin especially on colder months.

MY RATINGS   4/5

Thank you

MY CURRENT SKIN CARE ROUTINE .

         Good morning ladies... diwali is a week away but am already on celebration mode.. i need to complete my shopping this week ;).. i love shopping, i mean who doesnt?.. diwali is my favorite time of the year.. it reminds me of brightness , a spark, happiness and of course my moms homemade sweets.. :P it gives me an opportunity to dress up which is the most exciting part of all..  so without any further blabbering lets get straight into todays topic.. i have decided to share my complete beauty routine with you guys, which includes my facial skin care ,body care, hair care, and nail care..i recently changed my entire beauty routine.. i switched to more organic products lately.. today ive dedicated this post exclusively for my facial skin care.  my day time skin care and night time skin care are both similar .. there is no significant differences. so yeah lets get started,

MAKEUP REMOVAL 

            Everyone in this world is beautiful believe it or not every single creation of god is beautiful. we just need to enhance our beauty lil bit. One way of doing that is by wearing makeup.. I am not talking about a full face of foundation , blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick, powder, mascara etc etc. even if you wear a kajal it is considered as makeup . You are doing something to enhance your beauty. it is also very important to remove your makeup at the end of the day. Even if you wear just a kajal and a lip balm you need to take it off. So makeup removal is a key step to have beautiful skin. 

I wear kajal and a cc cream to college..I usually takeoff it off with a cotton pad and olive oil. I sometimes switch olive oil with baby oil. It really depend on what my hand grabs on that particular day . The cotton pad that am currently using is from a shop called just born. they sell all baby products..They have their own range of baby care products.. And i did not steal it from my sister who is having a new born baby. I bought one for myself :-P 

On the days when am completely tired and lazy ( which is quite often ) I use baby wipes to remove my makeup. again i swear i did not steal it from my niece.. I bought one for myself ;-)

CLEANSER 

After removing the makeup i use a cleanser to clean my face completely.. So that i rinse of any residual makeup that i have on my face. 

 Sorry for the wierd angle.. but yeah i use honey as my cleanser.. And trust me guys it works wonder for my skin. my acne scar is becoming even . it doesnt dry out my skin like any other cleanser , it moisturizes my face instead. honey is usually sticky, but when you dilute it with lil bit of water it is not sticky.

 In india especially in Tamil nadu we have a myth that applying honey to hair or facial hair, turns it grey instantly.. people when accidentally got their hair in contact with honey get scared to death that their hair is going to turn grey. but thats just a myth.. the honey that i use is from khadi kraft. this is the purest form of honey that i ever tried.. all the other brands that are available in super markets even though they mention that it is hundred percent organic they are not pure.. pure honey will have a different taste. Honey has lot of health benefits as well. my brother takes one table spoon of honey every morning on empty stomach which helps to clear his throat. he gets throat infections frequently. but now he is completely normal. okay now back to the subject.. honey is an excellent cleanser. 

Sometimes my face gets really dirty and i feel like having some soapy action on my face, i use this face wash from jovees. i have a complete review on this product here . over all it is an ok product. 

SCRUB 

            I exfoliate my skin twice or thrice a week .. I use my home made scrub which i have already mentioned in my blog HERE. 

I have oats, milk powder , gram flour, green tea powder in this stackable container .. i mix everything to gether and use it as a scrub or sometimes i just use oats alone or gram flour alone .. it really depends on my mood.  

I use my homemade neem powder for a deep exfoliation. ill be doing a seperate post on this magical ingredient. it is basically powdered form of dry neem leaves. 

MOISTURIZER 

moisturizing is another key important step for healthy skin. no matter what your skin type is you need to moisturize your skin. my skin is quite dry. especially in colder months i get dry patches on my face. i use my own homemade blend of facial oil for moisturizing my skin. 

I mixed five drops of rose essential oil with five ml of apricot oil and store it in a small glass vial. i use it religiously every single night and even during day time when am not going out on that particular day. the essential oil that am using is from the brand aroma magic. and apricot oil is from the brand called moksha.. you can easily find it online. i ordered mine from flipkart. 

I apply this oil on my face and give myself a little massage. it improves my blood circulation. my skin feels so soft post application. 

When am going out i use these two moisturizers. i mean not both.. i switch between these two.. when it is kinda humid outside i use baby lotion on my face coz it is so light. when the climate gets lil bit cold i use evion vitamin e cream which i have reviewed HERE. 

EYE CREAM 

when it comes to eye cream i have tried so many eye creams that are available in the market.. but nothing seems to be working for me. i did lil bit of internet research and formulated my own eye cream. i have just started using it so i cannot really talk much about my eye cream. so far it is good. i really like it. it is basically a mixture of four ingredients. evening primerose oil, aloevera, vitamin e and almond oil.

FACE MASK 

I use face masks once a week for removing my tan and to get rid of dirt in my face. I travel to coll by bus.. since metro railway project works are taking place in chennai i can literally see the dust flying in the air. and the bus has to get through those dusty cloud :-( i definitely need some deep cleaning action on my face..  

I usually make my own face masks at home.. I sometimes use fruits or just curd or just honey or egg white... there are lot of recipes that i have tried and tested on my skin. Ill be sharing those shortly on my blog. but sometimes i get lazy to make my own face mask and use readymade face masks.. I am currently trying out these two face masks. so far so good. ill review them after using it for a lil while. 

I use vlcc whitening mask when i need to remove my tan and i use himalaya neem mask when i need to deep clean my face. Am quite impressed with himalayas face pack. but vlcc one is not upto the mark..

                                                                     LIPCARE 

I am a lip product freak basically. May it be a lipstick or a lip gloss or a lip balm am just addicted to lip products and I cannot resisit myself from buying them. But few weeks ago when I was cleaning and decluttering my beauty stash I realised that lot of lip balms became old and they are not good anymore and I had to throw them out.  i am crazy about different flavors of lip balm or I was crazy I should say. I collected every single flavor that one could imagine. But I never used them . I used them only once or twice and then moved on to the next one and totally forgot about the old one. That is how I ended up having tons and tons of lipbalms. When I was cleaning up my stash I realised that I had way too many lipbalms that are expired and not good for use.  So at that moment I decided not to buy anymore lipbalms untill I finish what I already have..

I was left with these two baby lips by maybelline. They are comperatively newer ones. I keep one in my vanity and I keep one in my handbag. Am currently using  these two.  They are coral flush and pink lolita from the baby lips range.

I also use this biotique lip whitening  balm. Ive been using this lipbalm not so often . This is not like a regular lip balm. Its consistency is not that of a regular lipbalm . I use this lip balm like a night time lip mask  whenever  I feel my upper lips are getting dark. I cannot really comment on this lipbalm as I was just using it on and off.  I think I need to use this lip balm a lil bit more before recommending it to someone.