Indie Spotlight: Third Day Soap Garden

Hello my beautiful readers! I am back with another indie spotlight. I have so many companies to test out for you guys I am getting a bit behind, I promise to do at least two reviews a week.

Here today I have a company who from the moment I saw the website I was impressed with the overall presentation of the website and the products. It looked super high quality like someone put a lot of love, time, and money into this company. You can tell they believe in their products. One of the things as I mentioned many times is I am in love with sugar scrubs so the first thing I did was look to see what they have. Boy, was I impressed. The first thing that caught my eye was the Black African Soap Scrub. The more I looked into the more I wanted it badly.

Fast forward a couple days later and the owner Cynthia Hills (A sweetheart by the way) was offering a blogging opportunity. The job was simple pick 2-3 items from the site and review them for a bit of exposure. You guys have no idea how overjoyed I was when she said she would work with me. I literally internally squealed. What I LOVE about this company is that the owner grows all her herbs she uses in her garden. How cool is that? So she knows exactly whats he is putting into her products and she always tells me she does intensive research as to why an is in her products and the benefits it gives them.

I Picked:
- 4oz Walnut and Oatmeal Soap
- 3oz “Smooth Operator” Shea Butter Body Mist Massage Oil
- 6oz Black Soap Scrub

The soap is bigger than this i cut my bars in half
Let's start out with the soap bar, as I mentioned previously one of the things I usually pick out from a company is a bar soap and if I have the money a sugar scrub. I love bar soaps more so than cream or whipped soaps. Just something about holding the bar and the thousands of possible recipes and ways to work with the soap makes me excited.

The soap smells lovely I can tell it is naturally scented meaning no fragrance oils just the pure scent of the ingredients and essential oils. This bar is made up a lot of ingredients some including argon oil, shea butter, coconut oil to name a few. It is chuck full of skin loving ingredients so there are so many reasons of fall in love with the soap just based on that.

The lather is a soft, creamy, and silky, I enjoy using this soap a lot. I don't use a loofa as I am the only one using the soap I just do soap on skin contact and words cannot express my love for this soap. The scent is light and rich it pairs well with it's bubbly creamy lather. I am highly impressed.

Would I purchase this myself? Yes, heck yes I already was eyeing up her Lavender and Rose as well as her Chocolate Rose soaps. Not only do they look beautiful I can only imagine the scent to it. I highly recommend picking one up if you plan on ordering.

The next thing I picked up was one I normally don't pick up from vendors but I wanted to take a risk and well it paid off. The smooth operator shea butter body mist oil is honestly on a whole different level than the traditional lotions and body butters I use. To start off it is a suuuuper light oil. It absorbs super quickly 5 mins MAX (with a thin layer which is all you need!).It makes me skin feel smooth and has a light fragrance, I can't really put a name of the scent (bad nose!) but it is light, refreshing and NOT overpowering at all.

There are so many ways you can use this oil, I personally like to use it two ways: flat out on dry skin and as a shower oil using right before I get out on wet skin. Both ways have its purposes and I personally love it both ways. Let's start with dry, I pour a little on my hands rub together and rub all over my body and let it sit for about 5 mins and by the time I put on my clothes it has fully absorbed. I love this for summer days when you don't want anything too heavy on your skin or for days when you want extra moisture the fast absorbtion allows you to use this and a lotion or body butter.

Using it as a shower oil lets you use the water and the steam to trap the moisture in the skin, I LOVE using it this way. By the time you towel off your body has absorbs most of it. This is perfect for on the go days when you need to get out the door quickly and need to spend time hair or makeup. My skin always feels really soft, in addition to feeling soft based off her website description "the formula promotes younger looking skin. Evens the skin tone and provides UVA/UVB sun protection. Smooth’s wrinkles and stretch marks. Tames cellulite and High in antioxidants." I only used it three times but I will monitor any skin healing and update you guys.

Would I purchase this myself? Yes, oh yes! My only thing is when I do I will ask to have a spray nozzel. It will disperse an even amount of product and waste less. I notice that with the squueze I accidently use too much sometimes, not a big deal as I have a body spray that I am almost out of which is the same size and just switch caps. Other than that small little grip I highly recommend getting this oil.

If you know me I am going to save my favorite thing for last the black soap scrub! yay! This scrub has African soap inspired soap chunks throughout the scrub. A quick google search lead me to this article on the amazing benefits of black african soap. As you can see it has so many good skin loving benefits I am so happy to own this.

The scrub has a unique scent I haven't smelled it before sadly I am bad at describing it but take my word for it it's good. The scrub is a medium to course exfoliation depending on you how rough scrub. The scrub melts into a semi-thick oily feeling lather. Out of all the scrubs I own it isn't the heaviest oil residue left over it isn't the lightest in honestly it is happy medium. Usually with scrubs that leave a reside I don't use lotion that day unless I need the extra moisture.

Would I purchase this myself? Of course, not only that I would eventually try to own ALL her scrubs. She has two I am eyeing up Citrus Bliss and Strawberry Smoothie. Her scrubs are always packed with good ingridents. Another product I HIGHLY recommend getting in your order.

So that is my review of the three items I got from Third Day Soap Garden. Overall I am highly impressed with this company and I could not have been more happy that I got to review the items that I got.

There so many items I still want to try. For example I want the whole Strawberry Smoothie line(Body wash, scrub,lotion) and the Citrus Bliss line (Body wash, scrub and lotion), oh oh and the “Hair Soul-Beautiful” Leave in Moisturizing Conditioner.

My list can goes on and on, she even has a Subscription box service so you can try her goodies every month. You really cant go wrong with Third Day Soap Garden. In addition to all that she has FREE shipping with orders over $30 no coupon code needed! How cool is that?! Go check her out here

Disclaimer: I was sent these products exchange of an honest unbiased review. All opinions on my own. There is no incentive for myself if you use the link provided. For the full list of disclosure please click here.