Yes to Carrots Color Balm Soft Plum Swatches & Review

Yes to Carrots Color Balm Soft Plum Swatches & Review PhotosThere are chemicals everywhere – in your food, in your fragrances, and in your cosmetics.

While it isn’t realistic to believe you can avoid chemicals and fillers completely, picking more natural products in the makeup aisle can make a difference.

I tried the Yes to Carrots Color Balm Soft Plum. It’s a lightly tinted lip balm that’s 99% natural and free of Petroleum, SLS, and Paraben. It’s also cruelty-free.

Since the Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butters are all the rage now, I was really curious to experiment and see how this Yes to Carrots Color Balm stacked up.

Did one K.O. the other in beauty boxing? You’re about to find out!

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Shiseido The Skincare Night Moisture Recharge Enriched Review & Pictures

Shiseido The Skincare Night Moisture Recharge Enriched Review & Pictures smallerMother Nature went easy on us this year. Even though I’m a Canadian, I never look forward to brutal winters.

I remember one year, the temperature dipped below -40 degrees Celsius, but that wasn’t the norm. If it was, I’d pack my bags faster than you could say, “Toe socks!” ;)

Although this winter, we hardly saw snow or Mr. Freeze temperatures, I still wanted to arm myself with a new night moisturizer to combat any dryness from the changing temperature.

The Shiseido The Skincare Night Moisture Recharge Enriched came to the rescue like a caped crusader on a mission to hydrate pesky villains!

It kept my skin looking and feeling soft. This is my Holy Grail night moisturizer! I just wish it weren’t so expensive…phew!

(A huge thank you goes out to Carmela from Polished Indulgence. She was nice enough to let me know about the warehouse sale where they were selling this at a discounted price.)

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Bath & Body Works Fresh Picked Strawberries Anti-Bacterial Gentle Foaming Hand Soap Review & Pictures

Bath & Body Works Fresh Picked Strawberries Anti-Bacterial Gentle Foaming Hand Soap Review & PicturesWhen I was a kid, my parents had a strawberry patch in their backyard. Each year, we’d try our best to get to the fruits before the ants did. (They beat us sometimes. Those little buggers!)

As much as I love eating strawberries, I find that sometimes the scent gets lost in translation when incorporated into beauty products.

Most times, I don’t like the artificial strawberry scent. There have only been a handful of occasions when I did. (Talk to Mr. Nose. He’s a total snob. Sometimes he wears dark sunglasses and does the whole diva bit.) ;)

Although I wanted it to wow Mr. Nose, unfortunately, the Bath & Body Works Fresh Picked Strawberries Anti-Bacterial Gentle Foaming Hand Soap was a huge miss. I won’t be repurchasing this.

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Shiseido The Skincare Day Moisture Protection Enriched SPF 15 Cream Review & Pictures

Shiseido The Skincare Day Moisture Protection Enriched SPF 15 Cream Review & PicturesEver since using a Neutrogena moisturizer and not being too impressed, I’ve been on the lookout for an effective daytime moisturizer.

The Shiseido The Skincare Day Moisture Protection Enriched SPF 15 Cream sure is a mouthful, but it’s worth saying!

I really love this daytime moisturizer because it feels great on the face, it isn’t greasy, it absorbs well, it hydrates like a dream, it works well under makeup, and it even has SPF 15.

Yeah, if that’s not enough raving, I don’t know what it’ll take to convince you that this Shiseido moisturizer is amazing! (And what’s even more amazing is that my friend, Carmela, from Polished Indulgence was able to find it at a warehouse sale for just $28 CAD!)

However, there’s one thing I found out about it that made me deduct a point from the Final Verdict score. Otherwise, it would be my holy-grail daytime moisturizer. Wondering what it is? Find out!

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Cake It’s a Slice Smoothing Brown Sugar Body Scrub Review & Pictures

Cake It's a Slice Smoothing Brown Sugar Body Scrub Review & PicturesHave you ever used a body scrub before? The Cake It’s a Slice Smoothing Brown Sugar Body Scrub was my first!

I love how most of the ingredients are natural. And I think that this product will appeal to a lot of people because it’s formulated without parabens, mineral oil, petrolatum, and other ingredients.

During the winter, my upper arms can get dry, even when the skin on the rest of my body is fine. So I test-drove this Cake body scrub on just my upper arms to see how well it worked.

Let me tell you more about this Cake body scrub!

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