First time Etsy experience with Skin-a-Licious

For some time now I have lurked around at soap and bath making e-tailers and was never sure which company to buy from. Etsy can be little intimidating with all of it's vendors. Then I came across a youtube video some time last week which was talking about  Skin-a-Licious's company mission statement and products. I immediately paused the video and went to to buy some of their goodness.

Helen, the owner of Skin-a-Licious (who is a doll), started her company based on her son having eczema. Gah just saying the word makes my skin crawl. According to what I have seen online she began to educate herself on soap making and the ingredients she now puts in her products and their relation to eczema. And in lue of her knowledge of her soap making and ingredients/oils her sons eczema is now controlled, no longer needs medication.  She also uses all fresh products. Anything containing goats milk or coconut milk are completely fresh, no canned processed junk.

NOTE: If there is something you see that I have ordered and it is not available you can always contact Helen via Skin-A-Licious' Etsy account and ask her when perhaps the item you are looking for will be available again.

SCORE! I've made it WELL known I have eczema, always have and always will. I have been prescribed a steroid ointment as far as medical treatment goes; Triamicinolone Acetonide for those who cared to know. And I HATE it. Ointments are just point blank gross. They're greasey and take forever to absorb blah blah blah, I avoid using this ointment at all cost so I am willing to try almost any other sort of product to control my itching if it avoids me having to use it. And using CUTE AS HELL products on top of that? I greatly obliged.

I am not even going to leave this to the end of the blog like I normally would say... I am TOTALLY repurchasing from Helen in the future. Customer service is amazing, I messaged her and told her how I write this blog and how I am a eczema sufferer and was intending on writing a blog on my order with her; since sending her that I have been looking at my blog view counter and my most viewed blogs are the ones where I talk about eczema which I found a little surprising when I realized that. I kindly asked if possible she could throw in a few samples of items that I didn't purchase which may be well suited for those with eczema so I could talk about them on here. With in an hour she had responded and said she always throws in a little something extra, but was glad I messaged her so she then knew what type of items to send so I could actually have something I'd be able to enjoy using.

She offers a variety of products, lip balms, whipped body butters, body spritzers, sugar scrubs, solid lotion tubes (I WILL be buying one of these next), adorable bubble bars, lush scent dupes, cupcake shaped stuff and I am sure more that I've forgot about.

First things first I ordered this the evening of the 2nd. And it shipped via USPS on the 7th. And it took all of two days to get from New Jersey to San Francisco. I was so impressed. I didn't think I'd be getting it til Tomorrow or Friday. It came in a Priority Mail box with one of those air balloons (not pictured) on top of this this adorable chest/box inside. Soon as I broke the seal on the priority mail box I could smell the aroma of the soap. It was wonderful.

Taking out the chest and opening it up TADA, soapy goodness. With an adorable postcard thank you letter, Helen was kind enough to hand write on the back of the post card with what the samples she sent me were. On the under portion of the lid to the chest there's a sticker stating that same exact thing that's on the thank you letter.

 

Shopping list...

Raspberry Blueberry Cake Slice soap 

 Cranberry Orange Muffin Treat soap

Cupcake soap

 Coconut Lime Delight soap sample

Peppermint Pear Delight soap sample

Note: All of the following mini reviews are going to have a picture of the product labels and then one of the product itself. Be sure to scroll over the pictures of the products which will flip it to a  comparison picture of how large each of the products are compared to the palm of my hand.

Each item comes wrapped individually in a plastic bag, with a stick on it with state which product it is, and then the bag is tied in a lavender twine so the product doesn't fall out. SO cute.

 Raspberry Blueberry Cake Slice soap

available at: www.etsy.com/shop/hmgdesigns

$7.99

This soap is riiiidiculously cute and then some. I smell mainly a very faint Raspberry when I sniff it dry/unused.  The odd thing is if I leave it sitting out and am 5 feet from it, I can smell it super strong. But right up to my nose it's VERY faint. I do suspect this bad boy is going to unleash a lot of scent once in the shower. And this thing is HUGE! Helen made this soap out of a 9 inch round cake pan and cut it up into little pie shape sections. I LOVE that she lists the the ingredients of the product on the stickers for each product. And the instructions made me laugh. It always makes me laugh when people need instructions for things like this. IT'S JUST SOAP, RUB IT ON YOUR PITS! I will be cutting this in little pieces and using it little by little. I don't think. It would be a smart idea to bring the whole slice into the shower.

The top half is full of goat's milk and is scented in Blueberry with real sprinkles spread all across it. The bottom half is scented in Raspberry Musk

 Cranberry Orange Muffin soap

available at: www.etsy.com/shop/hmgdesigns

$4.99 

When I smell this soap I have to close my eyes and sniff. But the first thing I smell is that universal muffin/cupcake warmth scent. Cranberry is the next strongest scent for me, it's a bitter cranberry  not one of those fake smelling sugary cranberry scents. The the orange which I think is what gives this soap just a very small sweet essence. It with out a doubt a must for those of you who love bakery scents. I am not typically big on bakery scents, but it was SO adorable when I went to order stuff I had to pick it up and I do enjoy cranberry scents.

Cupcake soap in Honey I Washed The Kids dupe scent

available at: www.etsy.com/shop/hmgdesigns

$4.99

I am going to have a hard time using this soap, BECAUSE ITS TOO FREAKING CUTE. I'm probably just going to have it sit in my bathroom for awhile as a decorative statement before I can bring myself to ruin the cuteness. It does have the Honey I Wash The Kids scent to it, it's faint but you KNOW it is there. I have heard the select few who don't like the real version of HIWTK because you feel it's either too overpowering or too sweet. I think this may be a good suit for you who fall into that category. Because it has that nice honey and toffee scent with a lack of serious concentration in perfuming agents. You have to keep in mind though because these are hand made products each batch made varies slightly. So just like when you go to LUSH sometimes scents are stronger in the same soap when you buy it one time than when you buy it another. So if you order something in this scent and it's strong, you can't blame me. I am providing you warning.

Samples :)

Coconut Lime (left): This soap is made with fresh coconut milk and I assume a lime scented oil or perfume. I have been missing out essentially my whole life with out this. This is wonderfffffffffful. I need to buy a huge honkin chunk of this soap. My mom was just over and I left her smell it, she loves it so much she tried to walk off with it. You better believe I snatched it back.

Peppermint Pear (right): I was shocked by this. Genuinely shocked. I saw the name and thought to myself "this is going to smell vile" then I sniffed it and wanted to put my foot in my mouth.  It smells divine. I also NEED a hunk of this soap too. It's waaaaaay more strong on the pear than on the peppermint, the mint is just sort of a faint compliment to the pear. DELICIOUS.

I strongly advise you check out Skin-A-Licious at their Etsy shop:

etsy.com/hmgdesigns

And please subscribe to Helen's youtube channel wear she posts updates about new products and all that goodness:

 youtube.com/hmgdesigns