October sampling: Skintimate Raspberry Rain shave gel

The wonderful month of October continues! As a couponer (and one of four basically adult female children and quite a few close friends who've been part of my family for years) I love finding the best bang for my buck. I've tried just about every brand of shaving cream/gel you could imagine. One of my favorites is Skintimate. Last month, I got the opportunity to sample the mandarin burst scent for myself. This month, I was blessed with another opportunity to try a different scent--and to share some with my favorite ladies! This scent? Signature scents Raspberry rain. Step one: take lots of photos of my loot and share them to get the word out that I need some samplers! ;) I wanted to get a few people in this one that don't usually participate with my sampling. And who doesn't love free stuff??

I opened the box...

And couldn't believe all the cool stuff I had to give away! :)

Step two: try it out myself! I love to spread the word on products I love. To give honest feedback, you need the experience. So I got ready to lather up and try it out!

It looks so pretty on my bath ledge! :)

Neat fact i never thought about: exfoliating BEFORE you shave helps remove dead skin that can clog up your razor! This is especially true for the winter months when shaving takes a back seat due to cold weather and long pants (especially up here in New England! brr!) or when life is just too crazy! My sampling kit came with some Himalayan salt scrub from the San Francisco bath salt company to do just that. it felt really cool (and smelled amazing!). The Raspberry Rain shaving gel lathered perfectly (I LOVE a good lather when shaving) and smelled so good! I got a nice shave (and no nicks!). So it was time to get my girls together and share!

I had a visit from one sister who couldn't make the party date-she wouldn't take a photo and made baby sister pose instead! ;)

Some of my favorite ladies!

look at all the cute feet!

checking out the bath salt scrub

playing with--errr, smelling--the shaving gel! :)

ready to sample!

Everyone was so excited to be able to take home their own sample shaving gel (and razor!) when they left. I had three ladies not be able to make it  who we brought samples to--can't wait to hear how they enjoyed it!