Face Oil, Anti-Wrinkle Cream, Anti-Ageing Cream & Eye Balm - Antique Apothecary

Here at The Amazing Blog, we have been searching for a miracle: we’d like to go back in time and recover our youthful glow. That however, is virtually impossible unless we travel to Neverland. So instead we have found Antique Apothecary to take us one step closer to our dream.

Handmade with love and care, Antique Apothecary has created an Anti-Ageing range with 100% natural products designed to help your skin looking healthy and naturally beautiful. We were sent four different products: Anti-Ageing Herbal Cleansing Face Oil, Rose Otto & Frankincense Dream Revitalising Anti-wrinkle Herbal Cream, Royal Orchid & Helichrysum italicum Total Renewal & Anti-Ageing Herbal Cream, and Ultimate Eye Balm, and all of them were fantastic!

The Ultimate Eye Balm is applied once every morning to help protect the sensitive area around your eyes whilst removing dark under-eye circles. The Rose Otto & Frankincense Dream Revitalising Anti-wrinkle Herbal Cream is applied in the evening to help reduce fine lines and plump your skin, adding nourishment and moisture to restore your youthful glow while you get your beauty sleep. For best results, apply the Royal Orchid & Helichrysum italicum Total Renewal & Anti-Ageing Herbal Cream in the morning before applying any makeup.  With age-defying power from a special ingredient called Royal Orchid, this cream will firm and hydrate your skin. We loved the light floral fragrance that lingered after appliance as well. Our favourite product of the bunch has to be the Anti-Ageing Herbal Cleansing Face Oil, which cleanses, nourishes, and protects the skin all in one.  We love that the cleansing oil uses 100% vegetable ingredients, making it vegetarian and vegan friendly.

To restore your youthful glow and gain happy and healthy skin click here. Get the Cleansing Face Oil for £23, Dream Revitalising Cream for £55, Total Renewal Cream for £63, and the Ultimate Eye Balm for £33.

Di Blasi – Multitasking Butter and Prickly Pear and Manna Cream

When we get home from The Amazing Blog Office, the last thing we want to do is endure a long skincare regime. However, we have found a solution to this possible problem with the Di Blasi’s Multitasking Butter Makeup Remover as well as the Prickly Pear and Manna Cream. In fact, all you need is just these two products to have clean, soft and hydrated skin.

What we love about the Di Blasi brand and these two products is that they shorten your skincare regime in just two quick simple steps. The Multitasking Butter not only removes your make up with ease but also soothes and hydrates your skin. The ingredients contain no alcohol, so you can wipe away the impurities without stinging your eyes. The Multitasking Butter can be used as a face cream, lip balm, hand cream and even helps to soothe your sunburn, so perfect for the forthcoming summer season. Blended with Shea and Mango Butter, calendula flowers, wheat oil and infused with organic lemon essential oil; which gives it a lovely light fragrance.

The Prickly Pear and Manna Cream will give your skin that extra hydration without leaving behind any oily residue. It is ideal for either oily or combination skin types as it has a blend of natural polysaccharides and mucilage from the prickly pear pads, with sugars from the Manna (which is grown in Sicily) all of which will help keep your skin looking tip top for the spring.

For that glowing and youthful looking complexion, purchase online at Di Blasi here which is £35 for the Multitasking Butter and £32.70 for the Prickly Pear and Manna Cream here.

ManCave Moisturiser

Since I work with a bunch of girls, I often get forced to try different kinds of skincare products for men. Well, I guess I shouldn’t say “forced”, since I will admit,  I have started to take a slight interest in my own skincare routine. All I hear day in and day out are beauty tips, so I’m guessing some of them are beginning to sink in. The one tip that has always been stressed is the importance of a good moisturiser. I just can’t seem to get that tip out of my head, so when ManCave Moisturiser arrived at The Amazing Blog office, I was eager to try it out.

I decided to use ManCave in the morning during usual skincare routine. After shaving and washing my face I used a small amount of the moisturiser on both my face and neck. The texture was nice and did not feel too heavy on my skin, which is one that thing that I absolutely hate. This moisturiser is designed to hydrate your skin, protect you from harmful UV rays and stimulate your skin with the help of caffeine. Although I did not notice the effects of the caffeine, the hydrating qualities were like nothing I had experienced. I found that this moisturiser not only made my skin feel great but it was so different from all the other beauty products that come through our office - I couldn’t help but fall in love with it. From its sports inspired packaging, witty product description as well as the results I received from it, the ManCave Moisturiser is definitely something I will continue to use.

If you are interested in getting your own ManCave Moisturiser, it's avaible on their website as well as your local Sainsbury’s for £9.50. And for all the ladies out there, this is a great gift for the men in your life. You may have to convince him to use it at first but once you do, he won't be able to stop.

Oskia - Bedtime Beauty Boost

My skin is having a rough time this winter. It feels dry and dehydrated; no matter what products I use on my skin, the central heating and the changes of temperature are leaving it dull and dry. On times like these I always tend to use a richer cream befote going to bed – I go for richer textures that feel luxurious on the skin. Oskia Bedtime Beauty Boost is one of those gems that has made my skin feel comfortable and elastic again.

Although this cream is aimed to older skins, I’ve found Oskia’s cream has given my mid-twenties complexion a radiance and elasticity boost. The texture of the cream is light and non-greasy. Oskia’s Bedtime Beauty Boost brightens, hydrates and treats the first signs of aging too. One of the best things of this cream it's its smell: a deep Bulgarian Rose perfume and a hint of Oskia signature Rose-Lychee.

Oskia’s Bedtime Beauty Boost has quickly become one of my staples of my evening skincare routine. It’s rich without being greasy and its smell is relaxing enough befote going to sleep.

You can purchase Oskia’s fantastic products on their website.Bedtime Beauty Boost is available in two sizes: 50 ml and 15ml. They retail at £74.00 and £24.00.

Själ

Like most 20-somethings, I have a love-hate relationship with my skin. Some weeks it'll be clear, and others I've seriously considered wearing a bag over my head. So I'm constantly trying new cleansers, toners and moisturisers to get that elusive, long-lasting perfect skin. And I think I may have come close with Själ's skincare range. I've been using the Combination Skin Essential Kit quite religiously for the past month and I can really tell a difference in my skin. The kit comes with Balans Deep Pore Cleanser, Light Cellular Renewal Cream, and the Perfecting Mask. From the first few times I used the products, I could feel how high quality they were, they just feel so luxurious on your skin. It took about a week for me to see a visible difference, and as a rule of thumb I like to give products a good amount of time to trial, as sometimes it takes a while for your skin to react.The cleanser is light but effective - I'm used to my facial cleansers foaming up, but the Balans cleanser stays light as you use it. The cream smooths over your skin easily, and you really don't need a lot to do the job, and considering the price that's a bonus in my book. The mask is as light as the cream, so you only need to smooth on one layer and leave it, afterwards it leaves your skin silky smooth. The Själ range is so unique and effective because of it's use of gemstones and minerals, they increase cellular productivity, provide skin clarity and micro-circulation. Själ  products use the highest quality ingredients and don't use silicone caffeine or petroleum jelly. Even though I've not tried the whole range, I'd be pretty comfortable saying they'd be as effective as the products I've been using.