Oh Deer Sugar Review!

Oh Deer Products!

If you remember back to this time last week, I posted about the store opening of 'Oh Deer Sugar' and also about supporting some Australian companies. Well this is the follow up post two both of those

posts! Post-ception!

I've had these products for about a month and I've been using them as much as I can so I can write up a decent review post. Obviously there are so many more products that I don't have, but if you're in store or having a gander online and happen to come across these things, I hope this helps in the buying process. (: 

The products I picked up were: One of the bakehouse bath bombs in 'Hubba Blueberry Bubba': $8.00/$8.50

Two of the chocolate bar soaps '(oh) Peachy Keen' and '(oh) Confetti Fawn': $5.50 for the single block and $13.50 for the family size (the size of 3 singles)

Two of the Bubble Bar Macarons 'Passionfruit & Floral' $4.50 each

Chocolate Block Soaps: I picked up two of these, there were more I wanted but as a trial I just grabbed two different kinds. There is a more masculine scent called 'Mountain Stag' oh my goodness it smells delicious and I want it so much! 

The two I picked up were Confetti Fawn and Peachy Keen. They both smell delightful, not overpowering at all. Confetti Fawn is very sweet with actual popping candy inside. I was not expecting that at all! Peachy Keen has some gold glitter but it doesn't transfer onto the skin so much, because once you wash yourself, be it body or just your hands you obviously wash off the soapy suds residue, its not like a big old bath bomb where you get out of the bath looking like an extra from twilight. 

The soaps lather up really well, but because of this, it results in the product being used up more quickly so if this is an all over body soap just keep that in mind. I only use them as hand soaps so I still get a decent amount of life out of them. They also leave a pleasant scent on the skin. 

Bubble Bar Macarons: One of the things that I love about the store is that when there is 'faulty' product i.e product that is oddly shaped or 'ugly' is still put on sale but at a discounted price. It still works as well as the 'proper' product but basically half the price! I picked two of the 'ugly' macarons in the scent of Passionfruit  & Floral. They were only $2.00 each. So if they have more of the deformed ones when I go in store again, I'm going to pick up a heap of them!

You can get four good bubbly baths out of one of these macarons I think. You just simply run it under the bath water and it makes great bubbles. I used half of one and there were plenty of bubbles. So using a quarter of one per bath should provide sufficient bubbly goodness. Obviously if you want more bubbles, use more macaron, SIMPLE!! I didn't smell the other scents, but I can tell you this one will be my favourite. Its so fruity and almost tropically tingly smelling? if that makes ANY sense at all...

Bake house Bath Bomb. This particular one is a 'two or one' product. The pink bit in the middle can be pushed out (in my case it wouldn't wiggle out so when I chucked it in the bath the fizzing of the bath bomb shot it out so just pick it up when it does that) and used as a bubble bar so you have fizzy nice smelling bath bomb and then some great bubbles! YAY! I'm definitely going back and getting another one of these! This is the Hubba Blueberry Bubba bath bomb. It smells so lovely and turns your water a nice shade of aqua blue. It smells berry/fruity and sweet without being overpowering at all. When in the bath it coats your skin in a silky smooth layer of deliciousness. It doesn't feel gross or slippery at all and when you get out of the bath there is no slimey residue and once you wipe yourself down with a towel your skin is left feeling super soft. 

I am definitely going to go back to the store and pick up some more products and I really hope you check them out too. If you don't live in Adelaide don't worry! They have an online store and they have *INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING* 

Thank you so much for reading and let me know if you check out their site/go in store! I hope you enjoy them, and this new series about Australian companies!

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Oh Deer Sugar Store Opening

Oh Deer-Licious!

(Like Delicious - get it?)

Now if you're a follower of Pastelsparkles and Newbytobeauty (and you should be) you will have already seen some posts about Oh Deer Sugar, so strap yourselves in you're about to hear some more!

What started out as an online store has now transformed into a 3D, real life store where your senses can roam free. The store has the perfect mix of a modern meets industrial feel to it with the clean white shelving and smooth lines and the concrete floors and exposed pipes in the ceiling. 

What is 'Oh Deer Sugar'?

Oh Deer Sugar is a company dedicated to 'food for the skin' as it says in the window. They supply hand made bath time goodies that will make you want to run around in the dirt just so you can get clean again. A mixture of bath bombs, body scrubs, face masks and more, all vegan and all 'foodie'. Oh Deer Sugar is an 'NON-edible bakery' - no matter how good they look and smell (oh my 'deer' lord, the smell) they're not for eating. 

What products can I get?

Bathbombs, bubble bars, scrubs, soaks, masks and more! Check out their Facebook Page for photos and their website for their products. If you're in Adelaide, I recommend you going into the store for yourself.

My in-store experience:

I had a shopping day with two of my best friends and fellow bloggers, Sarah and Zoe (Pastelsparkles and newbytobeauty). We spend at least half an hour in the store circling it and going back and forth through the isles finding something different each time. I'll be writing up another post soon with the products I picked up, I want to use them for a while so I can give you a review on them. Right now I'll show you some pics though!

Zoe and Sarah shopping up a storm. 

 Because it is a 'non-edible bakery, it is set out like a 'food' shop is and I love that they have little trays similar to the ones you get when you go to 'BreadTop' for you to carry around your products instead of putting them in a basket. Which I totally understand, because some of these are way too fragile to be knocking around in a basket against the walls etc. For the loose products they have little containers similar to 'take away' containers to put your products in. Its just the little things like this that bring it all together.

Bath Bombs GALORE! Walls lined with delicious bath treats! BOMBS AWAY!

I love how if you like a scent of one thing, it is almost always offered in the other products too! (the really popular ones anyway) There is a huge wall that is filled with bathbombs that are just waiting for me. haha The bathbombs come in solid form and also a powdery form which I thought was really interesting.

Bath Bombs, Soaps and Bubble Bars!

#DatSoapDoe

Everything is laid out so nicely its easy to get to and the signage is great. I really liked how there was room to move in the store. No squeezing past people, the isles were easy to walk through with your tray and in my case my handbag swishing around at my side. 

I will have a follow up post about the products I picked up so keep an eye out for that, and also this post and the review will be apart of a new series I'm doing on my blog about Australian companies. I look forward to introducing you guys to a heap of new stores! 

Thanks for reading and don't forget to check out Oh Deer Sugar

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Australian Companies Review Series

Beauty Expansion

So to put a not so long story even not so longer, I'm going to be getting products (with my own money) from some probably not so well known Australian companies.

To put that not so longer story in to context: Every time someone likes a photo of mine on Instagram I ALWAYS check out their profile. I've noticed that I've had a few companies (purely for promotional purposes I'm sure) like a few of my photos. When I check out their page and I like what I see, I make a note of it. I've done this a few times now and I thought to myself "Caitlan, just get some dang products and see for yourself!" so thats what I'm going to do! I'm going to be getting a few products from each company and I'll test and review them. This is mainly to expand my collection of things beauty to some of the 'underdogs' but I also love finding new companies and if that means that they get some more business, then yay?

Logo photos of the companies.

The companies I have on my list are:

Soda & Co: -Body wash, lip scrubs and hand creams.

Vice & Velvet: -Homemade soap, bath and body products.

Black Arrow Candles: -Handmade exotic / indie soy candles.

tmf. (the makeup foundation) -Makeup and cosmetics.

Oh Deer Sugar: - Handmade, vegan, food for the skin - bath and skincare, pamper yourself delicious. 

I'm planing to buy a few products from each place, ones similar to others if possible so I can compare, but mainly because I want to try a range of different items that I've not used before. Obviously price does come into it, and also if there isn't much of what I'd actually use, I'm not going to buy products that I don't have an interest in. 

To kick this off, I've already got my products from 'Oh Deer Sugar'. They've JUST opened up an actual store and I was lucky enough to get in and scoop up some products to trial. I'm so excited. There will be a post about the store opening and then ANOTHER Oh Deer Sugar post coming up about the products themselves! So stay tuned for Thursdays post about that and then the Thursday AFTER that for the product review! I've got some posts coming up that I'm super excited about including my very first 'Blogger Event'! 

If you know of any great Australian beauty companies (candles count as beauty, ok?) please let me know, I'd love to check them out! (honestly, give me another reason to stalk people on Etsy)

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