Dermalogica Lip Treatment

Only used it because it was free...would not pay for it. A very mediocre lip balm...

Here are the ingredients: Anti-Ozonate complex, Shea Butter and Vitamin E. I guess anti-ozonate complex is a propriety blend.

Caudalie Lip Conditioner

The BEST lip balm for ME (matte yet slighty waxy), though I'm always on the lookout for a better one. My friend S says that Dr. Haushka has an awesome one. I'll have to try that one soon.

UPDATE: The first ingredient is Sunflower Seed Oil. I like that most of the ingredients are natural.

Decleor Vitaroma Wrinkle Prevention and Radiance Face Emulsion

Nice and thick and has a great aromatherapy-ish smell, but gave me pimples. Bummer. Now I just use it as a hand lotion.

Burt's Bees Natural Toothpaste

It may be 100% natural but it's so haaarddd to squeeze out of the tube! And it's super thick...can't say I really like it. Probably wont buy it again. : (

Jason Natural Finishing Spray

I had high hopes for all things natural when I first began switching out my normal products for organic, natural ones. Jason's all natural, organic finishing spray made with aloe vera and bergamot was no exception. Just the idea of getting hair control while only spraying natural things like aloe into my hair seemed too good to be true... and it was.

I could blame myself, I suppose - my high expections. I had visions of Aqua Net strength spray able to hold hair in gravity defying lengths... but really, this was aloe. and bergamot. what did I expect?

At best, this is a nice spray that sort of coats your hair in a type of gloss so that they slightly stick together. At worst, it's the worst hair spray you've ever bought.

So I would say, if you don't need height (and who really does these days), and you don't need ultra control and say you just want to keep a style locked in (as in finish the hairstyle), then this "might" work for you. It's a hard call. I think it all depends on your past relationship to hair products and what kind of baggage you bring with you! :)

Juice Beauty Moisturizer

life could better...

After going through a serious desire to go all natural, I finally relented my moisturizers with hard to pronounce ingredients and decided to give two Oil Free Moisturizers a go. The Juice Beauty Moisturizer is the first one I tried. As you can see in the photo, I was about half done when I took the photo and now, after having turned the bottle upside down to get the very last drops ( i hate to waste), I can safely, definitively say, I DO NOT LIKE THIS MOISTURIZER. I am very glad I'm blogging about this because I know that had I not, maybe two years later, after general amnesia sets in, I will wonder if I should try Juice again for it's all naturalness but this time, I will not be fooled.

This moisturizer is basic at best. It is a moisturizer and yes it's oil free and that's it. Considering that even my oily skin needs a little more than just moisturizing, I found this to be extremely insufficient. Because of the dry weather here in SoCal, although I tend to be oily, I also need a bit of something else that other moisturizers usually provide. Maybe this is my fault. Maybe I'm asking for too much. Maybe I've already been spoiled by all the other multi-tasking chemicals that I'm used to. It's possible. I would only recommend this to someone who just wanted to moisturize. say, you got out of the shower and you could care less about your skin but you just want to stop that tight skin feeling so you reach for a basic moisturizer - well, this is it. But if you want anything else. I would not recommend this. In fact, I will probably never buy this again.

I hope the second one I'm trying doesn't disappoint. We shall see...