Take some time to relax

Each and everyday we are kept busy by work, chores or activities and sometimes it all gets a bit too much. We can get stressed out which affects our wellbeing by leaving us with a lack of energy, bad health and aches and pains. It also affects us mentally giving us a lack of focus, insomnia and a making it difficult for us to relax.



By taking some time to indulge in relaxation we will be doing our body the world of good. Benefits of this include a reduced risk of catching a cold, easing acne, keeping us slim by reducing the stress that will make us want to eat, keeping your heart healthy and making us happier^.

I've created a list of ideas of things you can do when you are stressed and need a little bit of calm in your life.

• Indulge in some relaxation. Doing gentle stretches and focusing on your breathing can make you feel calmer and more in control. Mind has some great relaxation and breathing exercises you can do when you have some free time on your hands.
• Take a bubble bath. I think this is my answer to everything but it always makes me feel better. Taking some time to mull over your thoughts in a cosy warm bubble bath puts me at ease.
• Write a list of what you have to do. If you have a million and one things running through your head it might be best to write it all down to put it in perspective. Also, mark these as to what is most important and also note how long it will take. Get the quick ones ticked off right away and you'll feel much better seeing items being crossed off.
• Do something you enjoy. Whether it be baking, reading or walking, take some time to get into a hobby and enjoy yourself. That time away from your stress will make you feel ten times better.
• Exercise! Do we have to?! Yes. Exercising can boost your self-esteem and your mood, improve your quality of sleep and reduce your risk of stress and depression. Sounds like something we all should be doing more of!
• Getting to bed early. Following on from exercise, it is important that we fuel our bodies properly and get the right amount of sleep. We all know how we feel when we wake up from a few hours of sleep. Not good, very cranky and agitated. Not very relaxed now is it.
• Spa day! If you can take a day off work why not take a trip to your local spa? Step away from your busy life and pamper yourself for the day.

Will you be taking some more time out to relax? What do you like to do to relax?

*Collaboration with Time4Sleep - all content my own except where credited.

The Comforter Bubble Bar Review - Lush

Ahh Lush. My favourite store. I hoard many bath products from here and the stash keeps getting bigger and bigger. One product I picked up that will definitely become a staple in my bathroom is the Comforter Bubble Bar.

The Comforter - £4.50

There are three reasons I picked up this product. First I love bubbles, second - the bar is PINK and third - it smells absolutely gorgeous! It is such a girly bubble bar as it smells of very sweet and sickly like red fruits and berries. It definitely has a hint of candy to it which makes me love it as I feel like I am bathing in a giant candy floss.

I only use a portion of this bubble bar and it creates lots of gorgeous bubbles as well as turning the bathwater pink! Just what I want on a night when I need to soak in the tub!

Have you tried this bubble bar before? Any suggestions of Lush products I should try?

A Lush Bath

I wasn't always a bath person. I used to hate them, think they were too warm and much prefer a quick shower. However Lush came into my life and now I am a convert. After the blogger meet up I organised, in Middlesbrough at the end of March in which we visited Lush, we were gifted a gorgeous goody bag full of treats. I took the opportunity to use a few of the products during a relaxing bath.

We were given the chance to create a fresh face mask and a bath bomb which we could take home to use. For my bath, these two were out in full force!

As I had made the bath bomb myself I was dubious to see if it would work as all previous ones I've had. I shouldn't have doubted myself as it fizzed away in the bath like any other. I love this Think Pink bath bomb as it makes the bath pink with lots of little love hearts in the water.

The face mask is called Catastrophe Cosmetic, filled with blueberries to help soothe skin and give a gorgeous glow. I've used this before and was a real fan. It feels like a clay mask as it is greyish and dries hard with the blueberries on your face which feels a bit weird. When I washed this mask off I was suitably relaxed in the bath and my face felt lovely and soft.

In our goody bags, we were given a small sample of Red Fun. I had seen this in the shop loads but hadn't considered picking it up. It is as the title suggests such a fun product to use and it feels just like play-dough. I pulled a little bit off and it smelled amazing. I just want a perfume that smells like it. On the website, it is described as mandarin and orange oil scented. When I rubbed it on me it left me all red and didn't lather like I would have expected. Having said that I did feel suitably clean after washing the colour off me. After using this sample I'd definitely consider buying the whole bar as it smells gorgeous!

I know that Lush is always going to have pride of place in my bathroom because I love their products so much.

Honey Bee Lush Bath Bomb Review

I've recently become obsessed with Lush and their gorgeous bath products. Whenever I'm in I have to have a smell and add a new one to my basket. This is the first one of Lush’s bath ballistics that I used after having such a good experience with the bubble bars.

Honey Bee is described on the website as “a sweet-scented bath bomb with honey and rhassoul mud to soothe the skin”. The smell of this is so hard to describe as it doesn't instantly strike a memory of other scents. It is very sweet and doesn't smell strongly of honey as you’d expect which is why I like it as I'm not too keen on honey. When I asked my boyfriend and mum what they thought they said it smelt of sweets.

The look of the bath bomb is yellow and brown, almost like a bee...see what they did there! The brown part of this is rhassoul mud which I've found after researching on their website has natural cleansing properties and helps condition and moisturise the skin. When I popped this in my bath it created a great fizz and turned the water yellow. The smell fills the bathroom and creates a lovely soothing bath. The only bad thing I found was that there were little bits of what I assume to be the mud at the bottom of the bath and after the water was drained it left the bath yellow, but this is easily washed off.

After my bath, the smell lingered on my skin for quite a while which was gorgeous. This is my favourite bath ballistic so far, but I will let you know if something takes the top spot! I would definitely recommend this if you don’t mind giving your bath a little scrub when you get out.

Have you tried this before?

Scrub a dub dub - Lush Bubbleroon Review

I'm not really a bath person. I'd much prefer a quick shower then get out and get ready. Sitting in a pool of hot water wasn't really my thing or so I thought. Enter Lush's Candy Mountain bubble bar that we got in a Christmas gift box. I hadn't used any of Lush's bath products but I thought it was time to give it a go. I got the bath water temperature just right so I wasn't coming out like a lobster and the bubble bar made it smell gorgeous. It was lovely. So here starts my liking of baths and my adventures into new exciting bath products!

I went into Lush last week to check out the new Valentine's products they've just launched. To be honest I wasn't overwhelmed by any of them so I ventured around the rest of the shop. I managed to come out with a bubble bar, a bath bomb, a massage bar and this bubbleroon.

According to the Lush website this little bubbleroon, based on the shape of a macaroon, is a bubble bar. So to release the bubbles you have to crumble this under the tap as your bath is running. There were three different types of bubbleroons in the Lush store but I picked up the Yuzu and Cocoa one. This smells sweet and quite strongly of coconut which makes makes you feel like you are in a bounty.

I only used half the bubbleroon as I'd seen people suggesting that half was sufficient but unfortunately I forgot to add it whilst the bath was running. I added it afterwards and swashed my hands around in the water to get the bubbles that you can see in the bath. It was a  lovely bath but the bubbles soon faded although the smell lingered.

At only £3.25 for what can be two lovely soaks in the bath I think these little bubbleroons are worth it. The other two scents are The Green Bubbleroon and Rose Jam.

Have you tried these before? What other Lush bath products do you love?