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Summer Health & Beauty Series: La Bella® Skincare Review

May 23, 2014 1 Comment

Having a sweet and happy home and family life isn’t just about food and housekeeping. It starts with you. If you don’t feel healthy and feel good about yourself it is more difficult to take care of your home or other people. That’s why I try to share health & beauty tips and products from time to time. For the summer, I’ve planned a series of posts centered around health & beauty. Over the next few weeks you’ll discover some great products, tips, and a giveaway or two! Hope you enjoy!

We kick off our Summer Health & Beauty Series with Skincare Products from La Bella. La Bella has more than 30 years of experience offering a variety of superior, salon quality hair and skincare products. Their skincare line offers solutions to keep your skin looking clear and vibrant and subtle.

You can find their products online and Drugstore.com or at local retailers like Walmart, Target, and Kroger.

Here’s a list of the products I have used, along with details on the usage:

La Bella Rose Hips Oil Cream – Contains Vitamin E to help rehydrate chapped skin and prevent aging from the sun. It also lessens wrinkles and skin spots, all while smelling amazing.

La Bella Vitamin E Cream with Aloe – This gentle product evens complexion and skin tone, while soothing and cooling burns from the harsh sunrays. Perfect to use after a day at the beach.

La Bella Vanishing Cream – Sometimes the damage from the sun is inevitable, but with a cocoa butter combination this cream helps diminish sunspots, freckles, and age spots while creating a smooth complexion.

La Bella Cosmetic Gel – This cream is made with collagen, elastin, snail extract, and aloe vera to help accelerate skin cell production while hydrating and healing skin blemishes.

Why I Love the Products:

The products are made from all natural ingredients.
Affordable! Each product is $5-$6.
The products come in a very good portioned size.
The products deminish blemishes and other imperfections, while also healing and rehydrating your skin.
The products feel good on your skin.
The products have a very nice and pleasant scent.

Check out the La Bella website for more details on their products.

Disclosure: I received review products to facilitate this post. The opinions are my own. If you have a product you’d like to see featured on my site, please see my PR page for more details or send me an email.

Filed Under: Beauty, product review, summer Tagged With: skincare

Chuggington DVD & Train Giveaway for You & Your Child + Free Printable

May 21, 2014 7 Comments

With the start of summer, you may searching the internet for ideas to occupy your small children during the day. With so many fun crafts, games, and other activities on Pinterest, you are sure to find enough things to keep busy for this summer, but what about movies and other media? Sometimes it is difficult to find entertainment your kids will like and you will approve of. For this reason, I am sharing the new Chuggington DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Giveaways, Kids, Printables, product review

Gourmet Cookies from Klara’s Gourmet

May 21, 2014 1 Comment

Did you know May 31 is National Macaroon Day? I’ve been celebrating a little early with some delicious macaroons and other gourmet cookies from Klara’s Gourmet. Recently chosen as a Fancy Food sofi Finalist for “Outstanding Cookie,” Klara’s Gourmet was founded in 2006 by Klara Sotonova, an emigrant from the Czech Republic. Klara came to the U.S. in hopes of making her dreams of owning a business come true. [Read more…]

Filed Under: cookies and candy, product review Tagged With: cookies, macaroons

Fighting Stains with OxiClean: Review & Giveaway

May 1, 2014 7 Comments

A week or two ago, I started going through clothes for my upcoming, and much anticipated yard sale, and I also rearranged all my closets and drawers, putting away winter clothes, and getting those spring and summer clothes organized and accessible. Whenever I do my semi-annual clothes clean ups, I usually find there are a few things that need to be thrown in the washer for a little freshening up. Enter OxiClean!

I’ve been seeing OxiClean advertised on television for years, but I only just recently tried one of their products. The company has a number of powdered and liquid detergents for clothing and dish washing. In my case, I tried the White Revive Laundry Stain Remover.

The product comes in a small 3 pound tub, which is enough for 45 loads. As you can imagine from the name, it is especially designed to remove stains and keep your whites bright. But unlike other whitening products, the OxiClean is chlorine free, has no harsh odors, and is safe to use on colored clothes. And it is also dye and scent free, which means it is safe to use on baby clothes and on items for people with sensitive skin and allergies.

Personally I was happy with the results I got from this detergent. It did a great job of cleaning the clothes. Plus, I know a lot of people don’t like the fruity or flowery smells that go along with other detergents, so if you are one of those people, this detergent would certainly be to your liking in that regard.

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Disclosure: I received free product to facilitate this post. The opinions are my own.

Filed Under: cleaning, Giveaways, Home/Garden, product review, Uncategorized Tagged With: detergent, laundry, OxiClean

Mother’s Day Gift Guide: Spa Sonic

April 29, 2014 Leave a Comment

Mother’s Day is only a couple of weeks away. In celebration of Mom’s everywhere, I’ve decided to highlight some gift ideas for mom. Today we start with the Spa Sonic Skin Care System . Mother’s Day is all about pampering Mom, so anything related to health and beauty is a plus when it comes to gift giving. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Beauty, health, product review Tagged With: facial care, Spa Sonic

Spring Cleaning with New Air Wick Products

April 25, 2014 Leave a Comment

Any time I need to refresh my home, I reach for a can of air freshener and pull out a new scented oil plug in. Air Wick has a variety of great products for the home, and they are always coming out with new scents to keep things interested and fresh. As I’ve been spring cleaning the last couple of months, I’ve been excited to find all the new products Air Wick has for spring. [Read more…]

Filed Under: cleaning, Home/Garden, product review Tagged With: air freshener, Air Wick

Laundry Simplified with Purex No Sort

April 23, 2014 Leave a Comment

If you’ve been a regular visitor to my blog and checked out my product reviews, you know that I am fan and user of Purex laundry products. Their detergent and fabric softeners do a great job keeping our clothes clean and fresh, and they smell great too. And they are also way more affordable compared to the other leading brands. One of the newest products from Purex is Purex No Sort. This product is exactly what it sounds like. It allows you to wash a load of clothes in any color without worrying about the colors fading on one another.

How does it work, you say? The detergent features a breakthrough Anti-Color-Transfer Technology™ which traps loose dyes in the wash and reduces color bleeding accidents in your mixed color loads leaving your clothes bright and clean.

The product has a nice, clean scent, and I think it did a great job on the clothes. I also love the concept of the product. In my household, my clothes are already basically presorted before the wash. I have a hamper for towels, a separate hamper for each person, and a small bin for whites. From there, I tend to wash the nicer clothes (blouses, dress shirts, and dress pants) on gentle cycle, separate from other clothes like jeans or pajamas which go on the ultra clean cycle.

Still even with this organized sorting method, I sometimes have to separate the laundry further if I have a new red shirt or some black items that I don’t want to put in with the lighter colors, so I think the detergent could come in handy for me, as it could mean less smaller loads to wash.

And I especially think the product would come in handy for people who are in a hurry and don’t have time to separate laundry, let alone wait for everything to wash in separate. And it would be like a blessing to those who have one or two hampers, where everything is all thrown in together.

So if you want to simplify your laundry routine, I recommend trying Purex No Sort.

Disclosure: As a Purex Insider, I received product samples and coupons for Purex No Sort. However, the opinions are my own.

Filed Under: cleaning, product review Tagged With: laundry, purex, Purex Insiders

Giving Our Cats the GOODLIFE™

April 16, 2014 1 Comment

I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. #goodlifepet #CollectiveBias

If you’ve been a regular visitor to my blog, then you know I love my kitty cats! For the past 6 years, I’ve been mommy to 3 cats: Rebel, Sugar, and Dixie. Sadly we lost Dixie Belle last month (RIP Sweet Dixie Belle). Because of the unexpected loss of Dixie, I am even more keen on keeping my other two baby’s healthy, so I can have them around for a long time. Let me tell you all about my babies.

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Filed Under: Pets, product review Tagged With: cats

Party Time with Oriental Trading

April 12, 2014 1 Comment

I’m very excited to be a part of the Oriental Trading blogger program. They make it easy to throw a party, stuff gift baskets and bags, come up with arts and crafts activities for kids. Whether you’re looking for VBS activities, throwing a wedding or shower, or hosting a Hawaiian luau, you are sure to find everything you need, from decorations to favors and more! [Read more…]

Filed Under: decorating, party ideas, product review, Uncategorized Tagged With: football, football party, party decor

Spring Cleaning with Essential8 and a Giveaway

April 9, 2014 5 Comments

I love using natural products for cleaning and bath & body. I love natural cleaning products because they generally lack the strong, harsh smells that other chemical cleaners have, and they are safer to have around my family and pets. I’ve been doing a lot of spring cleaning projects the last couple of months, and I was excited to try out some products from essential8 to help out the process.

essential8 is a shop on Etsy. They offer a variety of organic cleaning products, as well as products for bath & body, including sugar scrubs, lotion bars, and even bath products for baby and pets. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Giveaways, product review Tagged With: cleaning, Etsy, natural, natural cleaners, organic, organic cleaners, spring cleaning