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Natural Bath and Beauty products at the Best Bath Store

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rose soap I love bath and beauty products, but often I have a problem using them as I’m allergic to the chemicals and artificial scents used in these products and other products for the home such as scented candles and air fresheners and even perfumes and colognes. So I’m always on the look out for companies that use natural ingredients in their products.

If you also appreciate using products that are made with natural ingredients then you’ll love the items at the Best Bath Store. As far as I can tell all of their bath and beauty products are made from natural ingredients like essential oils, extracts and dried natural ingredients.

I love their selection of natural soap. The one that I used in the photo above is their Rose Geranium body bar. It’s textured with rose petals and made with natural essential oils. Everyone that reads this blogs knows how much I like my roses so the idea of having a rose scented bath sounds delicious to me. They have several other natural bath soaps ranging from dead sea salts to cacao butter, orange, lavender and many more. There are even special acne facial bars.

lavender_lotion200.jpg Along with their range of natural soaps you’ll find bath accessories, bath bombs, bath salts, dead sea products, lotions, skin and hair care products, products specifically for men as well as gift baskets and other gift ideas.

One other thing that I like about the Best Bath Store is that they offer free product samples. you can visit their sample product page and request free items to try.

I liked the idea of being able to try their products before I made a purchase that I contacted them last week to request free samples. Unfortunately I haven’t heard back from the company yet (perhaps the holiday caused a slow down) so I’m not sure if they’ve sent me my free samples yet or not. Also I’m in Canada so it might take a bit longer than if I were in the US. If I do get my samples I’ll update this post and tell you what I got and what I thought of their bath and beauty products.

The Best Bath Store also has a point system. When you make a purchase you get points, rack up enough points and you can cash them in for a store credit. Now that’s a bonus for regular customers. Oh and they offer free USPS priority shipping on orders over $25!

If you enjoy quality bath products made with organic ingredients – items which are not tested on animals I should also say – then check out the Best Bath Store.





We need a new mailbox

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Pretty much ever since we moved into our house (2001) I’ve been saying that we needed a new mailbox. I can’t believe that we still haven’t purchased one!

It’s not that I haven’t occasionally looked for a new mailbox when I’ve been in a store that sells them or even looked online – it’s just that I haven’t found the perfect mailbox yet.

I’d better find one soon though because the lid on our current wall mount mailbox creaks when you open it and then stays open unless you push down on it to shut it. It used to fall back in place nicely once you’d removed the mail. It’s just in sorry shape.

So earlier today I did a search online for Mail boxes and I managed to find a few styles that I liked over at Mailboxixchange.com. I seriously thought about getting one of their post mounted Mailboxes as they have some very nice designs, but our front yard is extremely small (10 F x 10F at most) and a post mounted mailbox just wouldn’t look right.

Since we have an enclosed front porch a wall mounted mailbox is perfect for us. We can open the door and collect the mail easily no matter what’s happening with the weather outside, plus the mailbox is protected from the elements as well so it should last even longer.

If you’ve been thinking of purchasing a new Mailbox for your home take a look at the selection at Mailboxixchange. They are a well known distributor of high quality residential and commercial mailboxes. You can select from over 2500 mailbox and curbside products including wall mount mailboxes, post mount, single unit, multi unit, commercial mailboxes, mail slots, address plaques and numbers and many more items. Take a look I’m sure you’ll be impressed with the selection and quality.

What not to wear!

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What was this girl thinking?

I think this outfit would be a great “before” shot for that show “What Not to Wear” on TLC. Seriously .. look at her platform boots? Let alone what goes for hair and the wild mix of colors.

I’m sure she’s got some interesting makeup on too. It’s too bad we can’t see more of her face in this picture.

What do you think? Would you wear this outfit (No, Halloween doesn’t count)?

Have to work up the energy to go shopping

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If I can ever get moving today I’ve got to go out to the drug store. I saw my pain doctor yesterday and she gave me my regular prescription of pain meds. Time to find out what it really costs without a health care benefits package! Argh … I’m sure it will be at least $200 if not more.

At least if it starts to get too expensive for me I have a couple months worth of most of my meds stocked up. I don’t take as many pills as I’m prescribed each day so I built up a supply. Gosh if I did take what I was fully prescribed I’d probably be a zombie!

If I’m not up to going out to the store I’ll just send Chris. He’s pretty good about doing things like that for me. He even does most of the grocery shopping these days. I wonder if I can get him to buy wrinkle cream for me? Ok well .. anti-wrinkle cream is what it should be called. Gotta use it to prevent aging right? Thankfully I’m from a family that ages well. Even my parents when they were in their early 80’s only looked like they were in their 60’s or early 70’s and my brothers and sister all look at least 10 years younger than they really are.

Do you come from a family that looks young for their age or are you going to have to fight aging tooth and nail the whole way?

Personalized gifts, stories, songs and DVDs for kids

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I’ve just come across a site that I think parents will love. The site is called Kids Personally and they specialize in personalizing kids DVDS, children’s book , kids songs, gifts and several other items that can personalized.

I’m not exactly sure how they personalized kids DVD but they can actually put pictures of your child in popular DVDs such as Spiderman, Dora the Explorer and other DVDs that are popular right now.

The companies premise is that a child using a book that’s been personalized or listening to a song that’s about them will pay more attention and likely learn more from the story that’s being told. Plus I’m sure it would make a child feel very special if they were to get anything with their name or image on it. I know when I was a kid I felt very special when I was given a name plate for my door that had my very hard to find name on it.

Kids Personally even has items like personalized alarm clocks that sings the childs’ name. How cool is that.

I don’t have any kids, but I do have young nieces and nephews. I think I just found a great site for Birthday and Christmas gifts for them. Visit the site to hear sample songs and view some of the great items. I’m sure you’ll like them.

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