NPR: Savory Scents Candles

Morning Lovelies! I'm starting to feel a bit better today, although not enough to function all that well. Some improvement is certainly better than none though, so I'll take it!

Today I have a Non-Polish Related post! I know, you never thought you'd see the day, right? Haha! Well, although this is a polish blog, every once in awhile there is a product that I love enough to share here. This one happens to be one that I know alot of us polish fanatics enjoy!

Candles. I love Candles. I love sitting and releaxing by candlelight, I love the smell of a freshly lit candle, and I love being able to walk into any room in my home and smell the secent of my choice drifting through the air. I've loved candles since I was in my teens, and to this day they are my chosen way of scenting my house. However, I am also VERY picky when it comes to candles. I want a candle that is long lasting, smells fabulous, yet isn't too strong or perfumy but still fills my home with scent. I've found a few brands that do this, but I end up spending a small fortune on just a few candles. I'm also a big fan of unique scents, and I want to be able to buy them year round.

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Crystal, the mastermind and creative genius behind Savory Scents, an Indie Candle maker on Etsy. Since I obviously adore candles, I jumped at the chance to try these out. I received 2 candles, Pumpkin Souffle and Cotton Candy (2 of the scents that immediately jumped out at me!) to try out.

Both candles came in adorable 4oz tins, which I love! As you can see, I didn't wait to try these out!

Pumpkin Souffle:

Pumpkin Souffle is a rich pumpkin scent blended with fresh nutmeg, cinnamon, creamy caramel and toasted vanilla. I could smell the pumpkin scent the second this candle started to burn, and within minutes my entire house smelled like a freshly baked pumpkin pie! I could even smell it on the opposite end of my house! Yum! Despite the scent being strong enough to reach every room, it's not a heavy, perfum-y scent. It's still light and delicate.  I've burned this candle often over the last 2 weeks and it still has a ton left. Impressive since these candles do liquify almost entirely while burning. I don't know about you, but this is how I prefer my candles to burn - it means I'm getting a good amount of scent as opposed to just burning wick.

Cotton Candy:

Cotton Candy is sugary strawberry and sweet vanilla notes in candle form. It smells exactly like cotton candy and is perfect for days when I want something very light but still sweet. Just like Pumpkin Souffle, I could smell this throughout the house, yet it wasn't overbearing or perfum-y, and the sweet scent wasn't so sweet that I couldn't tolerate it. I have burned this candle the most, and still have a good 3/4 of the 4oz tin remaining. It really is lovely!

I am so in love with these candles and quite honestly, I will be ordering more. It's rare that I am this happy with a candle, nonetheless two of them! Usually I'll find one I like, but the second will be a dud. Not this time. These both rocked my socks! Between the fabulous tin, amazing scents and incredible longevity of these candles? Well, let's say I do believe I have found my go to place for candles.

And of course, I have one of them burning while I'm polishing, so this is slightly polish related! ;)

You can find Savory Scents creations via Savory Scents by Crazy2Love on Etsy. All Savory Scents candles are made a combination of soy wax, other vegetable waxes, and food grade paraffin to create a safe, clean burning candle. They are free of toxins and cruelty free. 4oz tins will run you $5, and the larger, 6oz. glass tureen candles are $8.50. Shipping is lightining fast and the candles are packaged with the utmost care. I cannot recommend these enough! Crystal has also been kind enough to create a discount code for all of you awesome lovelies out there! Just use code KIMBER 15 at checkout to save 15% off your order.

You can also check out the latest creation from BG Cosmetics and Savory Scents - Mermaid's Tale! You have to see this awesome candle!

Daring Digits Peppermint Cuticle Scrub

Hello Lovelies! I was feeling a touch under the weather yesterday, and am still hurting today (darn trapezesius muscle!). I still wanted to share some awesome polish and new products with you all, so here I am, despite not being able to turn my head to the right!

Today I am sharing a brand new product from Daring Digits. So new, in fact, that it isn't even listed on the website yet! Ashley was kind enough to send me a couple of new products to try out, and among them was her new Peppermint Cuticle Scrub. First, let me say that my skin is insanely dry and almost impossible to get to normal, so I'm always looking for something to help out with moisture, as well as with smoothing rough skin and exfoliating. I've tried so many products,  and my skin and cuticles still looked horrible without a ton of oils and balms and lotions. I'm a pretty good person to use as a guinea pig for hand and nail care products since literally nothing has worked for me. Lemony Flutter, Burt's Bees,Various Oils and scrubs. You name it, I've tried it. This Peppermint Oil Scrub (as well as another new product from DD) has been my savior.  I've been using this for over a week now, so what you will see isn't what I started out with, but my skin still has a ways to go. What I'm going to show you is what my skin looks like now with no lotions, oils, balms, and after a nice dip in some acetone.

Daring Digits Peppermint Cuticle Scrub is a mix of Sugar, Brown Sugar, Canola and Safflower Oil, Beeswax, Salt (preservative), Vitamin E and Peppermint Oil. It comes in a sealed plastic container filled with enough scrub to last a good 2-4 weeks, depending on how often you plan on using it.

So, let's take a look at what my poor nails and cuticles looked like before I used my Peppermint Cuticle Scrub the other night. (This is also a great example of how different angles have different lighting conditions, if you're like me and are actually into that stuff!) WARNING! Graphic nail nudity ahead!



So, here are my cuticles and fingertips after removing my polish with straight acetone (sorry about my horrible vertical ridges and white damaged spots. The white areas are from trauma - slammed my hand in a door, and I've always had the ridges.). There's also one of my friendly neighborhood cat hairs in one shot. You know how it is - never see it until you've already polished and put the camera away!

Take a close look. My nails are dry, my cuticles are dry and I have flaky, dry skin all around the nail. Sexy, right? This is actually a huge improvement.

Using the scrub is simple. Take a pinch and drop it right onto your nail and cuticle:

Then use your finger to gently rub the scrub all over your fingertips, cuticles and nail. Make sure you're gentle though! Especially on the nail itself. All it really takes is a gentle rub.

After you're done with all 10 fingers, just rinse the scrub off. Make sure to rinse under your nails as well, since some of the scrub will inevitably end up there.

And here is what my fingertips and cuticles look like after using the scrub. Keep in mind that all of these photos are after over a week of using this scrub, and my cuticles and nails are already vastly improved.

Can you see the difference? I can! When I first started using this scrub, there was a huge difference. Since I've been using this stuff my nails, cuticles and fingertips are entirely different - the dryness has decreased considerably, my nails, cuticles and skin are less flaky and scaly, and my nails feel healthier. In fact, I love this so much that after using this for only 2 days I emailed Ashley to order more! I'm also using another fabulous product from Daring Digits in conjunction with this, but that's for another post!

Daring Digits Peppermint Cuticle Scrub will be available on DDPolish.com soon.  I think it's going to retail for around $5, which is an amazing deal. I cannot rave about this enough! I can't believe how different my nails and skin are, and I do not miss having to spend my time nipping away at flakes of dry skin.

What do you think? Were you able to see the difference?

If you are interested in purchasing DD's Peppermint Cuticle Scrub, you can email Ashley through the DDPolish.com site, or let me know! I'll be posting an update as soon as it's available through the website.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

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