Toxic Tuesdays

So, I have been toying with the idea of having a Toxic Tuesday series for a while, but was worried about the implications for the products I review. So here, is an explanation of the series.

While, I am striving to make my beauty routine super green, its been hard, not only are there not replacement products for certain things, some of them I simply can’t try because they have ingredients in them that will cause my skin to flare up.

Thus, Toxic Tuesdays will be about the not so green products I still keep in rotation, because these products are amazing, they work and they are super hard to replace!

Liquid Gold

Desert Essence Jojoba Oil

$13.99

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Jojoba oil is the haps. This stuff is amazing, I’ve been using it for years and I am always coming up with new ways to put it to use.

First, I keep a bottle in the shower and use this instead of moisturizer. It does not travel in your hand too much so you don’t end up with a slippery shower. This keeps winter dry skin at bay, and you save time by moisturizing in the shower.

Second, I put some of this on a cotton ball/pad and use it to remove eye makeup. Unlike so many other eye make up removers, this does not sting and takes off even waterproof mascara.

Third, I put this on the bottom portion of my hair, wrap it in a bun, sleep with it over night and wash it out in the morning and bam, awesome hair.

Fourth, I put this on my face as a spot treatment for dry patches. Yes, my face, oil on my face, everyone is doing it, no really they are, it seems like every company right now has their own magic oil. The molecular structure of jojoba oil is almost the same as your sebum, so it does not clog pores and does a great job of moisturizing in the dead of winter. You can even put this on as a mask, and wash it off, leaving your face super smooth.

Jojoba Oil, is so often used in fancy face oils, and its so basic, you can add other oils together with jojoba oil to make your own blend and save a ton of money. Jojoba oil though, on its own, is super rad, its basically liquid gold.

*Above image used without permission from HERE

Must Have Monday: Theraneem Nail & Cuticle Pen

Must Have Monday

Theraneem Nail & Cuticle Pen

$11.99

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This stuff is great and sits in my purse at all times. I carry it around just as much as I do my cell phone. Its great. Its in a easy to use, no spill click up pen. I brush it on before I use hand cream and my nails look and feel so much better. Continue reading

10/14 Sunday Morning Roundup

Sunday Morning Round Up…

Awesome, super fun things from around the interwebs this week to enjoy over some coffee on Sunday morning.

What inspires you by Joy Cho

Loft Love

The most adorable costumes for Halloween! 

The elusive Cat Eye! 

How to fix chipped polish and have a super dope manicure too! 

Even though we share the same name, Ilana Kohn’s Spring ’13 Lookbook is pretty amazing

My current obsession

Great make-up storage ideas

Winter Eyes

Right now with indoor heat, hydration is key, this neat water bottle would make that seemingly difficult task much easier

*Above image used without permission from HERE

Mullein & Sparrow Lip/Cheek Balm

Mullein & Sparrow Lip/ Cheek Balm

$14.00

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So safe you can eat it

Intelligent Nutrients Certified Organic Lip Delivery Antioxidant Gloss

$24.00

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When Aveda founder, Horst M. Rechelbacher, set out to start a new personal care company after selling Aveda to Estee Lauder, he “shifted his focus to Intelligent Nutrients, a health and beauty company that lives to the highest standards of 100% food-based, safe, non-toxic and organic ingredients.” The product line is based around the idea that “much of what goes on your skin can be absorbed into it. If it’s good enough to go on your body, it should be good enough to go into your mouth. And conversely, if you wouldn’t put it in your mouth, don’t put it on your skin.”

Lip Delivery Antioxidant Gloss is a USDA certified organic gluten-free lip-gloss combining powerful colorful antioxidant chemistry and nutritious food ingredients with a high Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (antioxidant) ORAC value. Lip Delivery Antioxidant Gloss is free from toxic mined or mineral pigments, heavy metals, synthetic colorants.” Also it does not contain, petroleum, synthetic oils, lead, toxic minerals, parabens, petrochemicals, plastics, artificial fragrance or flavors, synthetic colorants or silicones.

The gloss definitely moisturized, and the clear frosting color left a nice sheen. It lasted a long time and I did not find that I had to reapply often. The color Purple Mazie looks very dark in the tube but is a perfect light berry shade on the lips, not too overdone, but quite good for a low key day or when you don’t want to be obvious about your lip color. The taste though is like a blueberry muffin and I could do without that for sure. What I like best is that “every ingredient chosen to feed your lips with power-packed antioxidants and Intelligent Nutrients’ signature Antioxidant Intellimune® Seed Oil Complex to help battle oxidative stress and aid in fighting pre-mature aging”

* Image above and quotations used without permission from Intelligent Nutrients

 

Rosy Glow

Blissoma Rosy Glow Lip Elixer

$6.99

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Blissoma Rosy Glow Lip Elixer, immediately caught my attention when I was purchasing other things from the really awesome company Blissoma by Irie Star (See my other posts on Blissoma products here and here). Blissoma created the lip elixer because they “were sick of waxy stick balms,” Blissoma “thought up this fabulous idea – a liquid with all the nutritive, healing properties of a medicinal balm but with the light texture of a gloss.” Continue reading