Montagne Jeuneusse Face Masque Review

Being a big fan of the veggie friendly, cruelty free, natural pampering face masques from Montagne Jeunesse, I was more than happy to try out two of their latest offerings:  Hot Spring Sauna and Black Seaweed Peel Off Masque.  It's always nice to have a pamper session to give your complexion a boost!

My daughter Kizzy and I decided to have our own girls' night in pamper session.  We used the Black Seaweed Masque, which is made using Welsh Laver Seaweed and crushed Sea Buckthorn Berries.  It provides a seaside inspired detox for the skin which deeply cleans away dirt and grease.

After applying you relax for 15 - 20 minutes and then peel it away.  It came off brilliantly and resembled a thin, black bin bag once removed from the face.  It left only a little residue, mostly stuck in our eyebrows, but that rinsed off easily.

Freddy saw us peeling the masques away and thought we were aliens tearing our skin off...which I have to admit is what I pretend whenever I have a peel off masque.  It's all part of the fun!

The Hot Spring Sauna Masque is a nutrient rich, self-heating masque containing volcanic spring powder and chopped ginger. It gently opens up the pores for a deep cleanse and you feel all warm while it works its magic. Bamboo gently exfoliates and polishes the skin when it's washed off.  This masque had a lovely earthy scent and the exfoliation at the end left my skin feeling really clean and glowing.

At just £1 a sachet, Montagne Jeunesse Masques give you a wonderful spa-like facial treatment for a tiny price. It's lovely to enjoy a pamper session in the comfort of your own home, especially when you have daughters who love a pamper as much as you do!

Find out more at www.montagnejeunesse.com.  Also, if you have a Montagne Jeunesse Face Masque selfie upload it to Instagram with the hashtag #MJSelfie and you could win prizes!!

New Lil-Lets For Teens Range

When little girls grow-up, you reach a whole new level of parenting.  Puberty can be a difficult time for both parents and their daughters, and as a mum to three girls aged 21, 16 and 10, I am no stranger to the issues faced by growing up!  I want to help ease my girls through the stages of their life giving them as much help, advice and support as I can.  When I was young girl, subjects such as periods were considered taboo.  We didn't see adverts on the TV or in magazines and apart from the confusing talk at school whereby an elderly  female teacher told us to tell her if we 'started' at school (started what??  I didn't have a clue!!) no-one really spoke about it.  I'm so glad we live in a society where things are so much more open and information is so accessible, but it still isn't an easy time for girls.

One of  the big dilemmas for girls is what  products to use when they start their periods.  There are so many options on the market that it can be quite overwhelming.  This problem has just been made easier, by the launch of a new range of sanitary products.  Lil-lets now sell teen towels, liners and tampons designed specifically for a young girl's body to provide a perfect fit.  The range has been brought together into a Teen Starter Pack which includes 2 lite tampons, 1 regular tampon, 2 regular applicator tampons, 1 teens liner pouch, 4 day teens towels, 2 night teens towels and 1 'Becoming a Teen' booklet with advice on puberty, body changes and using the products.  Everything is in a pretty little re-usable zip up bag.

This helpful pack contains everything a girl could need to help them choose the products that are right for them and are available on the Lil-lets wesite and in Boots stores nationwide.  RRP £4.49

 The Teens Starter Set is a very good product.  I really like the idea of having everything in one handy, discreet and pretty little pack that can be re-used.  It is a really good starting point for young girls to understand what products are available and the fact they are designed for a teenager's body (being shorter, and narrower but just as absorbent as adult sizes) makes them more comfortable to use.  The booklet is informative without being patronising.  I'd go as far as to say that this set actually makes a young girl feel a bit special at this big moment in their lives.  I wish I'd had something like this when I was a girl!

We were sent a lovely gift from Li-lets to introduce their new product range.  As well as receiving the Teens Starter Set, the girls were sent some pampering goodies.  Lil-lets know exactly what else helps make this phase of a young girl's life more bearable:  a cuddly hot water bottle, some fancy beauty products and of course a bar of chocolate!

Find out more on the range along with helpful wellbeing hints and tips at lil-lets.co.uk

Montagne Jeunesse Travel Pamper Pack

If you are off on your holidays or for a weekend away and want to pack some indulgent beauty products, then look no further.  The Montagne Jeunesse Travel Pamper Pack contains a selection of products for making you feel pampered from top to toe:

1 x Passion Peel Off Masque 
1 x Skin Smoother
2 x Body Wash 
1 x Foot Cooler 
1 x Intensive Spa Hair Masque

The sachets are all cleverly contained in cardboard packaging which opens up like a book.  The sachets can be torn out like pages ready to use.  This keeps the products together making them perfect to pack in your case or hand luggage.

As with all Montagne Jeunesse products, the Travel Pamper Pack is suitable for vegetarians and made using natural ingredients.

The Travel Pamper Pack is just £5 and available to purchase from the Montagne Jeunesse website.

www.montagnejeunesse.com/gifts/travel-pamper-pack

I was sent a Travel Pamper Pack to try out.  It is a lovely little pack that I am going to be popping in my luggage to pamper myself on my holiday later this month.  The six treats for the body, face and feet all sound gorgeous with yummy ingredients.  They will refresh and invigorate and are a perfect beauty travel essential at an excellent price.

I'm Going To Get Pampered *shudders*

Last year I won a £400 voucher for Experience Mad by sharing my birth story in a competition.  I nominated QWERTY Mum as my hero for being there when my daughter decided to make an unexpectedly  impromptu appearance (almost in a coffee shop full of people having lunch!)   She was a brilliant birth partner and I was so glad to have won the prize so I could treat her to a luxurious spa day.

I've read through a whole list of pampering experiences and I have just booked us a Spa Day at Fairlawns Spa which includes a Massage and a Bathing Ritual Treatment in addition to all the other saunas, hydrotherapy pools and whatnot!  I'm not going to lie to you...the all day grazing bar was very influential in my final decision of venue.  I doubt though that it will live up to my imagination.  I'm thinking a Willy Wonka Smorgasbord, but the reality is probably more akin to a rabbit's stable diet.  It is a health spa after all.

Whereas most people would be delighted at the prospect of being pampered, rubbed and bathed...I'm actually in panic mode.  I have a bit of a "being touched" phobia.  Now don't get me wrong, certain touching gets a big thumbs up from me...for example cuddling my babies, hugging friends and anything involving my husband. But having strangers touch my skin brings me out in a cold sweat!  I feel the same about hairdressers which is why my hair has been the same for my entire life.  My unimaginatively styled, drab, long locks are not here by chance!

Doctors and dentists are not a problem for me.  It is something about the beauty industry that terrifies me.  I'm  just so uncomfortable with it.  I'll endure half an hour with a hygienist, but I quake at the thought of a pedicure. I did though have a fabulous spa date with my husband at Centre Parcs a few years back.  It generally involved misbehaving ourselves in various steam rooms and swimming pools and culminated in us rubbing various colours of mud all over ourselves in a private room.  That I can cope with.  But add a stranger in a smart beauty therapist's uniform and all the fun is gone.  It becomes serious.  This is where it all changes for me.  The panic sets in!  I'm cringing just thinking about someone having to touch me...ewww!  Why would anyone want to touch strangers for a living.  I just don't get it.

So while other people flock to hand over their hard earned cash to the multi-million pound industry...I'd rather nip off to the supermarket to do the weekly shop or sit on my laptop writing blog posts about how much I don't like being pampered!

However I am willing to give it a go in the name of research.  I'll take a deep breath and grin and bear it....that or I'll have a full on panic attack mid massage!!

DIY Pampering is as close as I get!

Valentine's Pampering with Montagne Jeunesse...go on spoil yourself!

January will soon be all but a memory and we find ourselves looking forward to the most romantic day of the year....  Valentine's Day!  A day of love hearts, romance and true love :)

To prepare for a passion-filled Valentine's this year, Montagne Jeunesse recommend these four lust-have lovelies!

Reveal your inner seductress and bask in the confidence of your cleansed, clear complexion with the Passion Peel Off  face masque.

The blissful blend of pomegranate and passion flower, infused with raspberry, grape and cranberry banishes blemishes and leaves skin fresh, purified and primed to get up close and personal! Simply smooth on, relax while it sets and peel off for gorgeous, kissable, totally irresistible skin.  Perfectly packaged at 99p a sachet there's no excuse for not having a loved up Valentine's this year with a Passion Peel Off!

It'll make you feel fruity!

Keep the passion alive longer with a fabulous Tottle (the love child of a tube and a bottle!)  With ten applications they contain plenty of the gorgeous masque...enough to share a pamper session with a loved one!

Revel in the romance of the divine Damask Rose Deep Cleansing Masque.  Renowned for its cleaning and hydrating properties, delicate Damask Rose is infused with Africa's miracle Marula oil, ridding the skin of anti-oxidants and leaving the skin deeply moisturised.  The sensual blend of Shea Butter and creamy cocoa butter leave skin feeling soft and enticing. The inviting floral fragrance will leave your man completely love struck.

Make sure this Valentine's Day you get your roses in Tottle form for around £5...it would make a long lasting gift to yourself!

As well as roses, chocolates are another perfect Valentine's gift.  This year indulge in a guilt-free chocolate Valentine's Day treat...with a zero calorie Chocolate Mask!

This deep cleansing and luxurious Chocolate Mud Masque is rich in natural ingredients which help to unblock pores, drawing out impurities.  This scrummy mask is devoted to love!  With skin healing properties of Dead Sea salt and moisturizing benefits of cocoa and Shea butter you'll be left with renewed, re-hydrated and irresistible skin...a chocoholics dream beauty product.  You'll be sure to melt any hunks heart for 99p. Mmmm...divine!

Are you desperately dreaming of a perfect, kissable pout?  Then this natural, super soothing lip balm is an absolute must have for Valentine's!  The yummy Cranberry and Aloe Vera balm with 100% natural beeswax will ensure your lips stay magically moisturised and hydrated for all unexpected lip locking moments!  A blissful blend of juicy cranberries, soothing Aloe Vera and smoothing Shea Butter and pure beeswax will guarantee you have gorgeous, kissable, luscious lips all day long.  At around £3 these fruity faves are a beauty bargain.  Perfect for popping in your handbag to keep your lips lush all night long.


Montagne Jeunesse products are bursting with natural ingredients and goodness and are as eco-friendly as possible.  All products are vegetarian and animal friendly.  

Montagne Jeunesse love the planet and our animal friends making them the perfect choice for Valentine's Day!


If you don't have someone to love this Valentine's Day, spoil yourself with a Montagne Jeunesse face masque and a good romantic chick flick!  Lovely xxx