1. Get yourself a copy of the latest Bust magazine featuring my role model Amy Sedaris on the cover jumping out of a cake, or some other very good form of reading material.
2. Put clean sheets on your bed, preferably 100% cotton, 400 thread count or so.
3. Run yourself a nice hot bath and make sure you put some luxurious products in it (or even just some milk powder, almond oil and a drop of your favourite smelly). Before you get in, apply a nice face mask. Have a jolly good long soak.
4. Scrub your feet with a brush, some pumice, some foot scrub or a combination of all of the above.
5. When you’ve dried off, and removed the mask, slather yourself all over in some glorious thick body butter. I cannot say enough good things about Skinfood’s body butter – they’re a New Zealand company, most of their ingredients aren’t all chemically, it’s rich and lovely, it’s cheap and easy at around $14 a tub in most supermarkets, and if you want further proof of its awesomeness, every time I apply it, my cat licks my hands for ages. So that has to be a good thing, right?
6. Get into your nice clean sheets. Feel blissed out. Perfection!
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June 13th, 2008 by johubris Leave a reply »
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Jo, i just tried the skinfood body butter. it is flippin’ awesome. it soaks straight into my skin, unlike my last body moisturisers, and is not greasy or oily. just perfect.
How does it compare to the famous Body Shop body butters? or other ‘body butters’. I’ve never tried them and wondering if all butters are this good.
Well, for starters, it’s half the price, it’s not owned by an evil big company (L’Oreal) pretending that they’re still all hippy-dogooding, and it tastes a hell of a lot better (because my fingers always end up in my mouth at some time). Also, I think the feeling of being moisturised lasts longer than the bodyshop ones, but I haven’t used them in a while so I can’t be sure. Not all body butters are created equal, the cheaper ones are usually pants. Except for this Skinfood one.
You know, I actually have a beef with the Body Shop. I never really liked it (except when i was a tween and i carried all my PE gear in a green body shop bag). Like, they’re all “not tested on animals” but they still use ingredients that were once tested on animals (just not tested by the body shop). It’d be far nicer if they used natural ingredients that don’t need animal testing. And despite being a huge multi-national, their image of women (i.e. marketing) doesn’t reflect the diversity of societies they sell in – they still project young-white-middle-class psuedo-hippy skinny-chick to me.
Also, i like how skinfood has ‘androgenous’ packaging and says ‘unisex’ – so it’s not pandering to any girlie shopping reflex.