Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Hi Friends, today is just a lazy Sunday for me. Yesterday I had a great evening at a friends place. I ate daal-baati, a delicious Rajasthani affair! How many of you have tasted this? Do you like it?

I made eggless pancakes today morning and they actually turned out delicious - soft fluffy and golden brown!

Eggless pancakes

Today I've been going click-click-click for all the posts lined up for the weeks ahead. So while I prepare all the review write-ups I thought I'd just share a picture which forms my lifeline

Save The Earth - Its The Only Planet With Chocolate

"Save The Earth - Its The Only Planet With Chocolate" -  Yes I love chocolates and my sister gifted this to me long back. It now hangs in my kitchen right next to my cooking range so that I see this all the time!

And below is a comic strip from the paper - I took this picture long back but forgot to post it - its about blogging and I really found it worth sharing. Blogging has become a theme with the 'Between Friends' comic strip lately. 

Do you read comics? Which is your favorite comic strip? Do leave behind your lovely comments - what are you up-to this weekend?

Burst of Happyness Sweet Sin Handmade Cold Pressed Soap - Review

Burst of Happyness Sweet Sin Cold Pressed Soap

A Burst Of Happyness!

Yes that is how you feel when you smell this handmade soap. Hi everyone, today I am reviewing a soap from Burst Of Happyness which is called Sweet Sin. A name aptly given to a soap that is so sinful you almost feel like eating it up!

Burst of Happyness Sweet Sin Cold Pressed Soap

Process of Making Handmade Cold Pressed Soap

This is how the creator of these soaps makes these beauties:  "The term cold process means that no external heat is used during the soap-making process. I melt my solid oils, add the liquid oils, then combine with the water/lye mix, fragrance, and pour into the molds. The soap is removed from the mold after twenty-four hours, cut, and placed on a curing rack for approximately four weeks. It can take up forty-eight hours for the saponification to become complete. The result is a nice hard bar with lots of glycerin"

Burst of Happyness Sweet Sin Coldpressed Soap

You can check out more details and all 'how' and 'why' question and answers on the facebook page of this brand HERE

What's On My Lips - Nando's Chocolate Lip Balm - Review

Next up on What's On My Lips is a lip balm by a company called Nando's. This lip balm is chocolate flavoured and the flavouring is so good that you will like to lick your lips until its all gone!

Nando's is actual some sort restaurant chain in UK and they keep teaming up with beauty brand Anatomicals to come up with different flavoured lip balms and they then also give out free samples.

Nando's and Anatomicals Chocolate Lip Balm

Product
The lip balm comes in a chocolate coloured tube with a screw cap. The flavour/fragrance is sinfully chocolatey. The lip balm is clear in colour and can be applied on your lips as much as you want to!

Tatha Body Scrub - Yummy - Review

The blog post title is Tatha Body Scrub Yummy but this does not mean that I ate this product. The scrub is called Yummy and aptly too!

This body scrub from Tatha is a chocolate body scrub - yes ladies - it does smell yummy and is very tempting.

From the packaging to the actual contents everything about this scrub is yummy!!!

What the company claims:

"The outermost layer of skin, the epidermis, accumulates dead skin cells that need to be removed. Normal bathing does not provide the exfoliation that is needed for the healthiest skin. Regular exfoliation with a body scrub will remove the dead outer layer of the skin and reveal a younger, smoother, soft, healthier layer of skin. The antioxidants in cocoa help to prevent the signs of aging skin. It also acts as a natural aphrodisiac. The sugar exfoliates the skin as the cocoa nourishes it and makes one feel good . This is a perfectly pampering body scrub that you can try over the weekend! INGREDIENTS-Vanilla planifolia,Olea europaea,brown sugar,cocoa powder."

Tatha Body Scrub - Yummy

The scrub comes in a glass bottle with a large cork lid. It has a nice tape sticker sticking the cork lid to the bottle. I couldn't capture the sticker tape - you will only see it faintly in the pics. There is also a little card with the ingredients mentioned on it tied around the neck of the jar with a rubber cord.

Tatha Body Scrub - Yummy

I am reminded of the achaar jars that we used to have in old days - this one though is much smaller. The bottle is along with the cork is about 5 inches in height.

Once you open the cork you will be immersed with a divine chocolate smell and the scrub itself looks like molten dark chocolate.

Tatha Body Scrub Yummy

Tatha Body Scrub - Yummy

 The texture of the scrub is granular and oily. When you take out the scrub and rub it on your body the scrub is gentle yet cleans out all the grime. It does have a lot of oil content so you will be left with a slight oily feeling on the body which goes away when you dry yourself.

Tatha Body Scrub - Yummy - swatch

Skin feels smooth and radiant. Due to the oil content you can skip moisturiser after using this. For oily skinned beauties please steer clear of this scrub if you are acne prone - it is my personal opinion that areas prone to acne will not like the oil content of this scrub. My back is prone to acne so I avoided this on my back after the first use. I continue to use this on the rest of my body and I love the chocolate indulgence. What better way to start off your day!!!!

Contents of this scrub

Ingredient	Common Name
Vanilla planifolia	vanilla extract
Olea europaea	olive oil
brown sugar
cocoa powder

Details at a glance

Packaging: glass bottle with cork lid

Fragrance: chocolatey

Texture: granular

Price: Rs 1680 (300gm)

What I like

• Moisturising
• Wonderful chocolatey fragrance

What I don't like

• Slightly too oily for acne prone skin like mine
• Cannot be taken when you travel
• Expensive (the quantity is huge but you will end up using a lot because of the wonderful fragrance!)