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Palmers Cocoa Butter Giveaway

With Fall and Winter dry skin comes.  Sorry but drinking more water to hydrate your skin is a MYTH!  H2O has nothing to do with the lipid factors in your skin or the sebaceous glands to increase your skins natural oils.
Pregnancy and itchy bellies and change of skin tone and texture, well that can happen and weather has nothing to do with it but there is something that can help!

Pure Cocoa Butter, enriched with Vitamin E, in a soothing emollient base.  Heals and softens rough, dry skin.  Smooths marks, tones the skin and an excellent all-over-the body moisturizer and after tanning butter.  Also available in fragrance free formula.

Palmers wants to give one lucky mama or mama to be a gift set of Cocoa Butter Lotion, Cocoa Butter Jar, Swivel Stick and Fragrance Free Cocoa Butter Lotion.  Retail Value $40.00.

Contest Rules, answer the following question:

1)  How do you keep your skin healthy in the dry winter months or what did/are you doing to prevent stretch marks from occuring? please include your email address


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Open to US & CDN's
Ends 12/20/2010 at 12pm EST 
 

Jenny Milk Face Cream from Druide-Must Try!!!

I love Druide, such a fantastic line and I just found out they launched this!

This is truly a unique cream that I MUST try!  Milk does have an exfoliating action(lactic acid) so it would refine the skins texture and even out skin tone too.
I don't have this yet.....but if this is similar to what Cleopatra used I am so curious to check this out.
I don't know what Jenny Milk is derived from but I am too excited to wait, but I will update once I know more.

From Druide: 


Jenny milk, a timeless beauty secret

It began with Cleopatra, who bathed in jenny milk to preserve the youthful beauty of her skin. The secret wound its way through ages among the greatest beauty queens from ancient Greece and Rome until today…

The rich complement of vitamins (A, B, C, D, E), and minerals (calcium, zinc), polyunsaturated fats (omega-3 and omega-6), amino-acids and bioactive peptides, accounts for the milk's remarkable soothing, restructuring, nourishing and anti-aging properties.

In its composition, jenny milk is the closest to human milk, and is thus highly compatible with the human body and skin. It is perfect even for the most sensitive skin.

The scent is discreet; Myrrh (used since Egyptian antiquity), delicately dressed with the fresh notes of Rose, Camomile, Magnolia and Myrtle.

The benefits:
It improves the tonicity, the elasticity; hydrates and revitalizes the skin- making it smooth, firmed and radiant with health.

$49.95CDN
99,4% of the total ingredients are natural in origin
44% of the total ingredients are from organic farming
70% of the total ingredients are bioactive

Aunt Ruby's Winner!

Woo hoo!  #3 is Monika......
You are the lucky winner of Aunt Ruby's Cocoa and Coffee Scrub!
Please email me at:
skinfamous2010@hotmail.com to claim your prize!

You have 48 hrs to respond and if I don't hear from you, another draw will be conducted.

Aunt Ruby's Review and Giveaway

 

What can I say about Aunt Ruby's?  Um.....delish, Canadian, handmade & one of my favorite body scrubs that I have used!

How about if you love coffee or shall I say that wonderful, heavenly smell of freshly brewed coffee then I have the body scrub for you.
Yes body scrub.


What are the benefits of caffiene for the body as a scrub?

• It can reduce inflammation on the skin and promote the skin to heal.

• The scent of coffee in Aromatherapy has been linked to clear the mind of excessive thoughts

• A natural antioxidant

• Caffeine in body scrubs helps to improve blood flow, therefore "may" reduce the appearance the cellulite.
•  Benefits of tighter, firmer skin because it constricts blood vessels.

I finally got around to using this after my class last week of Bootcamp.  I tried it on my hands at first but that did not give this wonderful product the justice it deserves.
So after a strenuous work out and wanting to eliminate toxins and keep that blood flow moving and to help with cellulite(really it's all about estrogen and you can't get rid of it completely) I had a hot shower and applied the scrub all over.  What a scent!
The texture is perfect, not too rough at all and I haven't felt that good in a long time.  It massages so nicely into the skin.  The texture is truly perfect.
It's worth having to clean the tub after using it.

Aunt Ruby's Cocoa & Coffee scrub in locally made in Toronto in small batches to ensure quality.
Ingredients are simple such as turbinado sugar, olive oil, grapeseed oil, Vitamin E oil, Glycerin, Coffee, Cocoa and essential oils of peppermint and vanilla.

{GIVEAWAY}

Aunt Ruby would love for you to have a Cocoa & Coffee Sweet Scrub so you can enjoy it as much as I have, also check out their holiday specials!

1) To enter please join Aunt Ruby on Facebook and tell them I sent you.
2) Tell us here what scents you love in a body scrub.
3) Giveaway ends November.14, 2010 11:59pmEST
4) Open to US & CDN's
5) )(optional)I could use some new Followers....help me out.  It's new, LOL!

Zoe's Organic- Beautiful Handcrafted Skincare for Baby

Review and Giveaway from Zoe Organics!

Working in skincare for 10 years now and being an esthetician now mom this is me in a nutshell:
 1) I love skincare
2)  I enjoy helping my guests make the right skincare choices and methods to achieve healthy skin
3) I am a product junkie...extreme product junkie
4) I am on top of all the latest in skincare products and trends, especially organic natural skincare.
5) When I, the esthetician had a baby I got even more aware of what's in products and wanted the best. Johnsons & Johnsons? Heck no! When there are way better products out there ( I am a junkie as mentioned above).  It's all about the safest ingredients and best ingredients going on and into your childs skin and here comes one of my #1 recommendations for baby.

 When I came across Zoe Organics I was over the moon reading the ingredients and just so happy to see such a beautiful line.  When I looked, opened and used the products you can feel the love that was put in to creating this line.  Zoe Organics does celebrate life and cultivate life to honor mommies and babies everywhere.
A little bit about Zoe Organics
As a child Heather Hamilton was extremely sensitive and was allergic to almost everything and a severe asthma attack was brought on by a seemingly safe bubble bath. A young child and/or  parent should NEVER have to worry about a severe reaction caused by a children’s product.
Motherhood has led her to make more educated choices with regards to health and well-being and her own circle of friends noticed big gaps in the products available on the market. She became passionate about filling that void and began to create natural and organic potions for her own family.

Why I love, love, love Zoe Organics!
The ingredients, quality and the rating they have on EWG's Cosmetic Data Base.
Apricot Kernel oil calms inflammation and eczema, beeswax healing, antiseptic & biologically active, Calendula healing to cuts and burns, Chamomile another anti inflammatory and a soothing precious oil.
Want to learn more about her ingredients, click here.  It is truly magical and honest, you won't find anything synthetic.

We recieved the most gorgeous gift set that I will be giving one to you.  I know... we're awesome.

 In the gift set I got the Organic Baby Bath Tea that is utterly perfect, smart and gentle.  After it was saturated in the bath water, I used it as a "sponge", it's gentle and hydrating because it has cocoa butter.  It also came with the Gentle Hair and Body Wash, an old world style castile wash scented with mandarin and lavender(the best choices in aromatherapy for baby), Organic Baby Massage Oil which was so gentle and soothing to my sensitive boys skin.  It is extremely nutrient rich which we LOVE!
Next in the gift set was the Organic Baby Balm.  A must have for sun burn, wind burn(winters around the corner), dry lips, eczema, dry cheeks, cuts everything, it is a must have for parents and baby and lastly their Organic Diaper Balm.  A perfect, natural barrier infused with Lavender, Calendula and Chamomile.  His teething bum is perfectly protected and soothed.

Do you all now understand why I love this line???  I cannot wait to be their first Canadian retailer and bring this to you my fellow Canadians so you can experience beautiful, organic, 100% effective skincare for your beautiful child.  It is available at select stores in the US, click here

Now tell me your thoughts.  Would you love a gift set of your own from Zoe Organics? Win this for yourself or win this for a gift! Perfect for any mom and mom to be. Worth $85USD
To enter this giveaway, please visit my parenting blog: Everything Mom and Baby

~Open to US and Canadians, ends Oct.31, 11pm EST~

Oops, I've slacked big time!

I have been so  MIA, I apologize. 
I promise to get back to this site ASAP.
Grandma was visiting, I've picked up extra shifts at the spa and I have another out of towner here visiting.

I hope to pick up my skincare writing tips ASAP and talk about great product I am getting as well!