I Love Thee: MuLondon

Ladies, I know that you know of many good moisturisers out there that are natural and organic, but have you ever tried the moisturisers from MuLondon?

Back in April and May this year, I had written quite extensively on MuLondon: about the brand, about Boris the founder a.k.a. Head Cream Whipper (in Boris’ own words, not mine!), and there were reviews on two of MuLondon’s moisturisers, Organic Hemp Moisturiser and Organic Rose Moisturiser.

For my new readers, here’s a quick recap on MuLondon.

There are just five products in MuLondon’s product offering:

Organic Lavender Moisturiser
Organic Marigold, Frankincense & Myrrh Moisturiser
Organic Hemp Moisturiser
Organic White Chocolate Truffle Moisturiser
Organic Rose Moisturiser

All the moisturisers come in two sizes: 60ml and 30ml. The 60ml version costs £13 (Organic Rose £19) and the 30ml version costs £7 (Organic Rose £10).

The moisturisers:

• are hand-whipped by Boris (in fact, it’s a one-man show at MuLondon)
• are made with just a few ingredients, many of which are certified organic
• contain pure shea butter and jojoba oil
• do not contain added water
• do not have chemical preservatives
• do not have artificial colouring
• do not have artificial fragrances
• contain 100% active ingredients
• are vegan and vegetarian

MuLondon

• does not test on animals
• is registered by The Vegan Society and PETA Worldwide
• has excellent customer service (and that’s Boris again!)

So, you can imagine how excited I was when I read that MuLondon was having a 20% off offer in December (some of you may have already noticed the coupon code in my sidebar in the last few days). There’s no better time to buy than now and so, out came my credit card. I placed my order on Thursday last week, Boris had it shipped on Friday and the package arrived here in the Netherlands on Wednesday. That was pretty quick.

The glass jars were nicely and securely packed. In it, there were also two MuLondon business cards with very beeeeautiful photos of its products (image above) and a letter from Boris which explains more about the moisturisers (it’s especially helpful for first-time customers).

These were the moisturisers in the box:


Organic White Chocolate Truffle Moisturiser
Organic Marigold, Frankincense and Myrrh Moisturiser
Organic Lavender Moisturiser

I wasted no time in opening the jars one by one, just to take in the fragrance. The White Chocolate Truffle Moisturiser, especially, has such a heavenly scent! I kid you not.

I will be featuring each of these in the coming weeks. They will just be mini reviews as much of what I had written before on the Organic Hemp and the Organic Rose Moisturisers applies for all MuLondon moisturisers.

MuLondon ships worldwide at reasonable rates. I paid £3.50 in shipping for my order. You can very easily check the shipping rate for your country on the MuLondon website by adding a test item in the cart. There is no hassle with pre-registration.

If anyone’s interested, the offer ends on 20th December. The coupon code is MUXMAS for the 20% discount. Or if you'd like an organza bag with your jar and the 20% discount, it's ORGANZA20 (as per MuLondon's Facebook).

My previous reviews:
Organic Hemp Moisturiser
Organic Rose Moisturiser

Adorned Nails: KOH Meditate

KOH released its Winter Colours 2010 collection consisting of six shades some two months ago. The collection, called Zen, has of course polishes with names appropriate to the theme, like Peace (light brown), Harmony (dark brown), Spiritual (dark green), Wisdom (dark blue), Happinez (tomato-ish red).

And then, there is KOH Meditate. In simple description: a medium green. To be honest, I never felt drawn to this colour. I already had two other greens from KOH that were rather similar (KOH Jewel and another one to be featured later) and I wasn’t sure if Meditate would look good on my skintone. In fact, I was going to give the whole collection a miss but haaa, as fate would have it, the folks at KOH kindly sent me two bottles of polishes last week to review, one of which was Meditate.

Don't judge a nail polish by its number, I said the other day. Well, for Meditate I say, never judge a nail polish by its bottle. The bottle does absolutely no justice to this green. In the bottle, I see a murky, dirty, medium crème green.

So, imagine my surprise when I started polishing my nails with it. I was gravely mistaken! It’s not murky. It’s vivid. It’s not medium green. It’s actually a dark-ish green, not as dark as British Racing Green. At times, it looks like the dark green of jade. It’s a green that likes to trick the eye. It reveals a tiny bit of its blue tone when seen against a dark background. Against a light background, it shows some of its yellow tones.

Application was a breeze with this one. What you see here is with two coats on all nails except the middle finger. For the sake of experimenting, I did just one thick coat on that nail and achieved opacity. Drying time was all right.

I’ve been putting it through its paces since the weekend. To defy convention, I’m showing you the photos in reverse order, starting from Day 6 (this is the most colour-accurate of all the photos).

Day 6


Day 5 (with KOH's new faux-leather case)



Day 4


Day 3


Day 2
Not necessary.

Day 1

My experience with the durability of KOH polishes has been mixed so far but this one has fared quite well. You would have noticed some tip wear in the Day 6 photo but there were no signs of chipping at all. And I didn’t even use a top coat.

One last photo from Day 1, just for fun.

Hmmm, "No presumptions, free your mind," is what I think KOH's trying to tell me with Meditate.