Because I get sent so many skincare products for review, I often have to stop using a product I love (for a while) and move onto a new product to test. Occasionally – actually more often that I care to admit – I forget about the former product and go on to something else. PR …
Self-Care for My Feet w 7th Heaven Soften Sock Masques
We’ve had a drought here for at least the past 11 weeks. Everything is dry, and the chance of forest fires have been high. Fortunately, today it finally rained. And I mean rain. It has been pouring since 4 am. In fact, it’s been raining so hard that I haven’t left the house even to …
Project Pan: September 2020 Beauty Empties
September was a good month for me in terms of finishing up quite a few beauty products. Hopefully, I’ll make 100 empties in 2020 after all, if I can keep this up! Let’s take a look. I Bought This, PR Samples, Affiliate Links (BTW, some of the products ended up in the wrong photo, but …
Rituals Ritual of Karma, Now at Sephora!
Rituals Luxury European Lifestyle Brand PR Sample, Affiliate Links I’ve been writing about Rituals, the unique European luxury lifestyle brand, for years now. A blogger friend from Lola’s Secret Beauty Blog introduced me to the brand’s Foaming Shower Gel ages ago. When I went to Holland two years ago, I discovered it was a Dutch …
Hydration from the Bees via BeeSpa
Last December, I went to a holiday craft fair in Boston with my friends, Kim and Laura. While we were browsing for gifts and treats under the tents set up in an empty lot in the arts district, I met a couple selling honey and beeswax items who turned out to live with their bees …
Crabtree & Evelyn Rosewater Bath & Shower Gel Gift Pack at Costco
The holidays are not that far away. In fact, Costco has been selling decorated, illuminated Christmas trees for a month already. So, while I was shopping there today for a couple of things I needed, I picked up a couple of potential gifts as well as a pair of jogging tights for myself. While I …
City Beauty InvisiCrepe Body Balm: Is It the Game Changer I Hoped For?
You know that I am a fan of City Beauty skincare products. I have tried a lot of their products over the years. Some really suit me (I’m looking at you City Lips, Multi Action Sculpting Cream and UpLift Firming Serum, just to name a few off the top of my head. So when I …
Project Pan: August 2020 Beauty Empties
The beginning of a new month means taking stock of how I’m doing on Project Pan, the group that sets goals to monitor how many beauty products each of us has used up in the past month. And like any empties post, it makes sense to give an assessment of the product. I started August …
Project Pan: July 2020 Update on My Beauty Empties
I started the month of July, the halfway point of 2020, at 46 beauty empties, still quite a ways from my Project Pan goal of 130 empties for the year. This month, however, I made some good progress at emptying a number of big full sized products. What a feeling of accomplishment as I recycle …
Spa Treatment at Home for Dry Overwashed Hands: 7th Heaven Soften Glove Masques
Between gardening, lawn care, bread baking, and trying to make sure that my hands are clean and germ-free, I must wash my hands at least 15 times a day. In spite of using hydrating cleansers and hand cream after every hand wash, my hands are dry, dry, dry. In addition, the exfoliative keratolysis (discussed here …
RITUALS Ritual of Sakura Magic Touch Body Cream
After a day of weeding the garden, baking bread and jogging, I really need a shower. And I really need a shower with bath and body products that smell lovely, since I sure don’t! So I am reaching for RITUALS Ritual of Sakura bath and body products. I’ve written about the Ritual of Sakura Foaming …
Project Pan Update: June Beauty Empties
June was a rather sparse month for my empties especially compared to May when I used up 12 products, but it is what it is. Here’s what I used up and my thoughts on whether it’s worth repurchasing. Skincare Clarins Extra Firming Yeux/Eyes: Although this was an excellent fragrance-free, thick, white firming cream in an …
Indigo Wild’s Natural Zum Bar Goat’s Milk Soap & Zum Mist
Not surprisingly, this year I have been going through a lot of soap, especially bar soap. Between washing my hands constantly whenever I bring in the mail, bring in the groceries, or leave the house for any reason plus all the extra time I have spent working in my yard this year, soap disappears pretty …
Project Pan Update: May 2020 Beauty Empties
May was a good month for using up some beauty products that I had had for quite a while, and a few that I was sad to see go. I confess I wasn’t in purging mode, regrettably, and I only have one product that I am tossing. Maybe next month I’ll do better. Bath & …
RITUALS Bath and Body Products Haul
My four favorite bath and body brands in no particular order are artisan-made Nature Island Botanicals, English-brand Molton Brown, Dutch-brand RITUALS, and Farmhouse Fresh from Texas. They all are natural, high quality, and have absolutely divine scents. As you know, I love a bargain, and I usually wait for things to be on sale before …