Budget Beauty: Lotta Skincare - Botanical Beauty Balm

I first discovered purse friendly Lotta Skincare on Instagram. Charlotte, founder and formulator spent many years researching and creating her range before launching Lotta Skincare, which you can buy on Etsy.

Botanical Beauty Balm (£5.95 - 50g) is stylishly packaged and the pot is recyclable. The Beauty Balm such great value for money and super effective.

Formulated with beeswax, macadamia, sweet almond, coconut and sunflower oils along with Vitamin E, clove bud, lavendin, tea tree and geranium essential oils.

To use: use as a cleansing balm, a skin nourisher, for cellulite, on cuticles, hands, feet and flyaways. It really is multi-use.

The Botanical Beauty Balm has a warming clove scent (luckily for me I don't smell the tea tree!)

At the same time I picked up Soothing Mineral Bath Soak which cleverly has the rose buds at the top of the soak so you can choose whether you use them or not.

What's your favourite product from Lotta Skincare?

Budget Beauty: Aldi Lacura Argan Oil & Caviar Illumination Ranges

Aldi have some great skincare and bodycare ranges (I've recently spotted a Grape range which is free from parabens, silicons, mineral oils and also free from artificial colours). Next time I'm in Aldi I'm definitely checking it out!

Their Organic Argan Oil range is launching again for a limited time on 21 February. The range costs from £1.79 to £2.99 so it is very easy on the pocket. 

I've been testing out the Nurturing Shower Gel (£1.79) which gently cleanses the skin, Anti-ageing Body Lotion (£1.79) which you can actually feel firming and nourishing the skin as you use it, Anti-ageing Hand Cream (£1.79) which nourishes leaving the hands feeling soft and moisturised and Carino Cream Treatment (£2.99) which is suitable for all hair types but is especially good for smoothing down frizzy hair leaving it shiny, smooth and healthy. The products have a pleasant floral scent and work very well. My favourite is the Carino Cream Treatment.

I'm also testing out the Caviar Illumination Day and Night Creams (£6.99 each). I used to use La Prairie so I'm keen to see how they compare. I'll review these at a later date.

What's your favourite beauty product from Aldi?

*PR samples