Ariel´s Secret Garden is one of my favorite bath & body vendors however her tarts aren´t really that great. But that doesn´t matter, I can get good wax elsewhere but her body care is really awesome!
Sad news is that Sherri and Ariel decided to close their shop =( Pure horror! =X So I decided to place a few more orders from them. The offer was a free 1 lbs bag of English Toffee and it is so delicious! I also got free shipping and an extra bath bomb.
This is the first haul which is smaller but I have couple bigger ones coming now.
The soap loaf is a cold process soap in Honey I Washed The Kids type. It will be ready to use on April 6th.
Her bath bombs are very moisturizing and fizz away really fast whereas I prefer a less greasy slower fizzing formula. However the one in Peppermint Lavender is awesome as it feels cool on the skin so even though one is sitting in hot bath water the skin feels cool and refreshed. A very interesting sensation.
The Miracle Cream is awesome, too, and my favorite product to use on my feet and hands right now.
-The Bathing Garden Waltz (2 cubes) in my bedroom (24W hot plate). This was a scent I created for Shannon´s contest back in July. It´s lavender layered over pink sugar vanilla milk. This was really strong and lasted till the next morning but I wasn´t so fond of the scent, I had imagined stronger vanilla milk notes and the lavender is a bit too pungent and artificial for my taste.
-Ariel´s Secret Garden Children´s Room (about 7-8 pcs) in the first floor (24W hot plate). This smelled nice, a baby shampoo kinda scent. This was pretty strong and had good staying power but I also used more than half of that baggie!
-Front Porch Fuzzy Navel in my kitchen (tealight). This was a really good fresh fuzzy peach scent. This smelled really authentic without any candy or bakery notes. Scent throw was good, staying power acceptable (FP doesn´t do too well in tealight as I figured out finally).
-FussAssMcGee Orange Goblin Cupcake in my living room (24W hot plate). I threw the whole big cupcake in my warmer as I was too lazy to cut and FussAssMcGee usually needs a bigger amount of wax to get a good throw. This cupcake was so cute! Gladly I have a 2nd one! This smelled really good, a mix of orange and something like pumpkin. It smelled very much like "fall" to me. Scent throw was about medium and it lasted all day long!
-Ye Olde Candle Cubbard Zucchini Bread Fluff (1 loaf) in my living room (24W hot plate). YOCC hasn´t worked for me too well but this was a good one! Although this was not smack in the face strong I got whiffs of it all day long, so I could really smell it till I poured it out at night. An awesome super sweet zucchini bread scent!
Here is the other haul from Ariel´s Secret Garden I mentioned in an earlier post. I really wanted one of those super huge fluffy powder puffs and a powder and she also listed tarts so I wanted to get some of those. And sure there were a few other soaps I just urgently "needed" hehe.
This order took quite long (about 2 weeks) but Sherri said they already started to be swamped with Xmas orders and it wasn´t really a big deal to me. She was also really generous with extras so everything was definitely worth the wait!
Tarts:
Freebies (a powder puff(!), cute spider, a candle in something with berry brew, cupcake soap and a baggie of tarts:
The box was cute! =D
-Beaux Savons Frais Peppermint Noel (2 cubes) in my bedroom (24W hot plate). This was ok, a sweet mix of Vanilla Bean Noel and soft peppermint. Throw was decent and lasting power, too. Nothing too fancy though but I´ll definitely use the clamshell up!
-Tiffany Candles Pink Panties in my first floor (24W hot plate). This is a mix of lovespell and pink sugar and it smells really awesome! Unfortunately there wasn´t too much scent in this (Even cold it was pretty faint). I could get a whiff of it here and there but overall this didn´t impress me. I will let this cure a bit more and maybe use the last 2 tarts at once to see if I´ll like it better.
-Ariel´s Secret Garden Fountain of Youth in my kitchen (tealight, about 6 small tarts). This was a good scent (smelled just like TBG´s Marie Antoinette´s Boudoir if I am not mistaken). The throw was ok (TBG´s version is definitely way stronger) I could definitely smell smell it a bit. This fizzled out pretty quickly though
-Country Home Scent Royal Cake in my living room (24W hot plate). This smelled lovely but it had quite a good amount of cinnamon in it so in the end I didn´t care for this too much. Scent throw and staying power was awesome in this, though!
-CFTKR Key Lime Cake (2 pcs) in my living room (24W hot plate). Despite even using 2 bricks (and CFTKR usually only takes 1 for super strong scent!) I could only faintly smell this. It was a lovely blend of white cake and key lime pie but it was too light. Will melt the last 3 pcs at once next time =( But 99% of the time CFTKR is super strong and awesome!
-Scentsationals Vanilla Lavender in my bedroom (1 cube, 24W hot plate). This was a very sweet scent, the lavender was quite light whereas the vanilla really came out. It was super strong so 1 cube was easily enough to scent my whole big bedroom. I liked it but a touch more lavender would have be great to tone down the vanilla a bit.
-Ariel´s Secret Garden Avon by the Sea in my first floor (around 6 or 7 of those little tarts). This smelled pretty perfumey cold so I was not sure how much I´d like these tarts. When I melted them I got no scent out of them at all though so my worries were for nothing anyway lol. Would not melt or purchase again.
-Three Sisters Soap Clementine Cupcakes in my kitchen (tealight warmer). This smelled so good cold I held onto my little cup for quite a while now. When I melted it I got no scent out of this at all though which was a disappointment. This scent shot was a skin safe product so I could have used it for my body but didn´t feel like I wanted to. A real pity =(
-FussAssMcGee Pink Sugar Fluff (the whole huge tart!) in my living room (24W hot plate). This smelled so awesome cold however it gave very little scent when melting especially considering this is like 3+ ounces (with stronger tarts I could get like 3-4 melts out of that!). What I smelled was pleasant though so I will melt the other one I have anytime soon to get rid of these. The newer tarts from FussAssMcGee seem a bit stronger and I am really enjoying them so far!
-Pics, Petals & Scents Iced Lemon Zucchini Bread in my living room (24W hot plate). This was a gorgeous lemon bakery scent. Now I could not detect the zucchini bread so it smelled more like an iced lemon cookie or cake but it was a great scent with a good throw and lasting power all day long. Really loved this one!
I did 2 hauls from Ariel´s Secret Garden so this is the bigger first one. I received it in 2 packages, a big one and a week later couple more items in a small box.
I hauled big time as she has really awesome body lotions and I wanted to give more of a try to her soaps as I only tried one before! The lotions are my favorites along with the Beautiful Body Butters from Cozy Moments I posted about recently.
I also got some lavender sachets for my linen closet and a set of her sugar shells (they are like solid scrubs in bar form).
So far even though her soaps are really pretty they don´t smell that good from what I sniffed. They seem to be very lightly scented and I can detect that slightly fishy lye-smell so I am not sure how much these will bloom in the shower but I can´t imagine the scent to get really strong. Will see how they´ll perform anyway.
The lotions are awesome as I said and made from scratch and I picked the scents Harvest Moon, Baby Bee Buttermilk and Snowcake type.
I got lots of freebies which is totally awesome! I got all those little tart cups, a bundt cake soap, a bar of soap, an unscented sugar shell, a cupcake soap and a powder puff as my extras! Thank you Sherri if you are reading this =)
