My hair is just frizzy enough to need to be straightened with a hair dryer and flat iron. It is just straight enough to need some serious coaxing to be curly.
The beautiful cork screw curls that I would love to have only appear on the bottom layer of my excessively thick mop. Needless to [...]

by Izzy

The Dove SkinVitalizer is a handheld device that washes and/or exfoliates your face. I wouldn’t call it a brush because there are no bristles but it does use two-sided cleansing pads that attach securely to the device with a Velcro-like material on the handle.
One side of the pad is smooth for washing and the [...]

Milkscreen is a new product that helps a nursing mother figure out exactly when her breastmilk is alcohol-free after having a drink.
I was able to chat recently on the phone with Milkscreen co-founder Julie Jumonville, an engineer by trade and a 35-year-old Texas mother of two.
“We all have our Mommy guilt,” Jumonville said, explaining the [...]

I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but when I find a product I absolutely love, especially cosmetics, I’ll go and buy a lot of it! You know, in case they’d quit making it all of a sudden (which seems to frequently happen to me). I doubt they’ll quit making this lip balm anytime [...]

We purchased Listerine Whitening Pre-Brush Rinse over six months ago. How nice would this product be if it actually works?
Just swish the rinse in your mouth for a few seconds and you get whiter teeth. That’s what Listerine claims anyway. Well, we will never know if this product actually whitens our teeth or not.
After just [...]

Commercials lie sometimes. That woman with the incredibly shiny hair on the dandruff shampoo ad? That dandruff shampoo didn’t cause that.
In fact, I have yet to find a shampoo that has anything to do with how shiny my hair is. Recently succumbing to the true brunette in me, I was worried about [...]

I recently sampled two types of Keri Moisture Therapy Lotion; the Nourishing Shea Butter and the Original Formula.
Let it be known that my fair, nearly 40 yr old skin does tend to run dry so I’m ALL ABOUT the lotion. I tried both formulas on different days and both did okay in the moisturizing department, [...]

Something no one ever told me about being pregnant was that I would find myself a victim of many weird skin afflictions. Sure, I knew about the possibility of stretch marks, but the dryness? The itching? The mystery pustules? These were all new experiences for me. A little research revealed that the best thing to [...]

I recently had an opportunity to try Tylenol Rapid Blast Liquid when I was knocked on my proverbial arse by an evil stomach virus.
My entire body ached with ungodly pain but I was afraid to take Tylenol or Advil caplets because I was having a hard time keeping things down. Eventually, I couldn’t take it [...]

In the name of frugality I’ve been scaling back from some of my more expensive habits, and I thought I’d give a new facial cleanser a spin. I don’t usually buy my facial cleanser at the store as I’m really a Mary Kay girl but based on the myriad choices available I decided to take [...]

One of the most depressing things about growing older is that your skin naturally thins and gets terribly dried out, especially in winter. Between the very cold dry air outside, and the heated dry air inside, skin has little chance to stay moist like it does in the humid summer. So supplementing the moisture in [...]

I’m a long-time user of Yves Rocher products. My mother indoctrinated me when I was barely past my teens (she loves mail order). Since then, Yves Rocher has become something of a big business, branching out onto the World Wide of Webs and releasing a host of new products, all bearing the guarantee of no [...]

I am a sucker for a free sample of anything. So when Dove plastered ads all over every web site I visit for the past month for their new Cream Oil Body Wash, I went to their site and schmucked about enough that I ended up signing up to receive a free sample. [...]

We recently reviewed another Burt’s Bees product on Props and Pans and it was quite favorable but this time around, I have to give a big thumbs down to the Burt’s Bees Peach & Willowbark Deep Pore Scrub. I tried to like it. I wanted to like it… But alas, I just couldn’t.
For starters, [...]

I don’t have a whole lot to say about Ban Invisible Solid anti-perspirant other than it blows. I don’t even perspire that much under my arms (don’t be jealous… I more than make up for it with boob sweat) and it still doesn’t work well.
To be honest, I just picked it because they were out [...]