**products purchased by myself**
It doesn’t matter that I’m in sunny southern California, winter weather can always wreak havoc on my skin making it drier than you’d think. Staying indoors with the heater cranking and dry air all about my skin takes a turn for the worse during the winter months and requires a little moisturizing treat to turn it around. I recently went to Sephora and picked myself up the Caudelie Vine Body Luxury Set as a late birthday gift to myself, and I do not regret it.
Caudelie is a cruelty-free brand that continuously tries to improve their formulas for the best results. Their products are created without parabens, phthalates, sulfates, and even phenoxyethenol (a type of preservative). In fact, they strive to always find better “green” ingredients that improve the skin without risking harm to the environment, animals or us, the product users. In fact, many of the extracts in their product line are derived from vinyards such as their grape-seed polyphenols (a strong antioxidant), reservatrol (a known anti-ager), and organic grape water which soothes the skin.
The kit contains my favorite lip conditioner, a wonderful hand cream, and opulent vine body butter. I have been a big fan of the lip conditioner for almost 5 or 6 years now and can always rely on the smooth, creamy feeling balm to soothe my dry lips. I would say its a perfect primer for lipstick or lip liners also since its not too slick, and stays in place. it has a very light vanilla scent to it that doesn’t offend sensitive noses and at $12 alone, I consider it a little splurge for most.
Next product to swoon over is the hand and nail cream. The tube is a decent size and will last me quite a few manicures. I’m terrible about using hand cream throughout the day but definitely indulge while redoing my nails at home. I absolutely love this hand cream and wish I remembered to use it more! It has a very soft orange scent and absorbs into the skin quickly without leaving a greasy sheen behind. It has antioxidants in the formula to keep skin looking young and shea butter to moisturize. This tube usually retails for $15 alone.
Out of all three products the most impressive was the vine body butter. I absolutely love the feeling of scooping at bit out and moisturizing all over after a long hot bath. A little goes a long way and I can see this tub will last me a good amount of time. The butter doesn’t feel like a typical shea butter formula which I usually associate much thicker. It’s got some slip to it. Almost like a thicker mayonnaise that absorbs quickly. And as an added note, it’s amazing for foot massages! My calves and feet felt so nice the next morning after using it and putting some long songs on. The scent is also a hint of orange which fades once you apply it and I cannot reiterate enough how smooth and soft your skin feels after using it. The tub of butter retails for $34 alone on their site but I can see that this tub is even a little bit bigger than one is listed on the site!
This entire set retails for $34 which I think is an amazing price considering the body butter alone retails for that! You are essentially getting the hand cream and lip conditioner for free which is awesome in my book.
I’d love to try more products from Caudalie but haven’t only gotten this far as of yet. If I could ask Santa for anything it would be the Instant Radiance set or the Vinoperfect Enzymatic Peel mask. If you could ask Santa for anything, what would you ask for?
