Beauty products you can't live without...

[deathbydalbhat 0]

I love Monoi de Tahiti oil - basically coconut oil blended with Tahitian Gardenia flowers. I've used it for years since growing up in Hawaii. There are different fragrances available - my favorite is the Vanilla. You can use it as a moisturizer(in the winter my skin drinks it up), tanning oil, or hair treatment. It is 100% natural and smells heavenly...

It's hard to find especially on the east coast but this company is selling it online: http://www.monoi.com. I need to buy more soon.

[Savanphil 3]

I love Monoi de Tahiti oil - basically coconut oil blended with Tahitian Gardenia flowers. I've used it for years since growing up in Hawaii. There are different fragrances available - my favorite is the Vanilla. You can use it as a moisturizer(in the winter my skin drinks it up), tanning oil, or hair treatment. It is 100% natural and smells heavenly...

It's hard to find especially on the east coast but this company is selling it online: http://www.monoi.com. I need to buy more soon.

it sounds dreamy...thanks for the link

[jordanianprincess 0]

Caladan....... THANK YOU!

So I tried the olive oil/lavender oil thing in my hair last night. Not only does my hair look great today but I think I got the best night of sleep ever! I didn't realize it until this morning, after rubbing my hair and scalp with the oil mix it just knocked me out. I was so tired and slept like a baby. It was the lavender oil which has soothing/calming qualities in it. It was just awesome. This treatment gets

[Caladan 19]

Great!

[deathbydalbhat 0]

I love Monoi de Tahiti oil - basically coconut oil blended with Tahitian Gardenia flowers. I've used it for years since growing up in Hawaii. There are different fragrances available - my favorite is the Vanilla. You can use it as a moisturizer(in the winter my skin drinks it up), tanning oil, or hair treatment. It is 100% natural and smells heavenly...

It's hard to find especially on the east coast but this company is selling it online: http://www.monoi.com. I need to buy more soon.

it sounds dreamy...thanks for the link

Enjoy...whenever I smell it I feel like I am back in Hawaii...

[TracyTN 237]

No one better try and take any of my Arbonne products away from me. That includes not only the skin care, but the makeup too.

Arbonne is some good stuff. Love the skin care.

Glad to hear that you like it, too!

Actually sold it for awhile back about hmmmm six or seven years ago. There were very few consultants in the area. My mother does it just to get the discount for herself and lil ol' me.

Cool!!!

I'm a consultant now - I really enjoy doing it! I've got all my family & friends tuned into Arbonne.

[Mary Lou 681]

I can't live without my Clinique glossware lip gloss! I love the stuff. I normally get it on duty free when I fly because I can get purse size of five colors. It looks lovely on and it doesn't dry out my lips like lipsticks do.

I have very sensitive skin...I've done the Bare minerals and I like it, but honestly the best for my skin is Clinique.

I also can't live without my oil of olay day wear SPF 15 moisturizer. It is the only thing I've been able to stick with for a while!

I LOVE burts bee's chap stick. It is made in North Carolina too!

Yes i love that stuff too!! Hubby even has a tube in his coat, as he works outside.

[chri'stina 190]

I love going into Sephora but don't buy a lot there as it's pricey. But it's fun just going in once in awhile and trying on different make up.

At Christmas time I got a roll-on eau de parfum there by Stella McCartney for $10 and I LOVE it. It's light smelling and the roll-on is great. Usually perfumes give me a headache and I hate most of them. But I am happy I found a perfume that doesn't make me feel sick.

Also I love the Eau Des 4 Reines (four roses scent) scent from L'Occitane, which is also very light and doesn't make me sick. I get the $15 eau de toilette and it lasts me awhile.

I don't use much MAC anymore because I don't like how the eyeshadows pigment is not really as bright as it looks in the dish. I have been disappointed by many colors that look bright and as soon as you apply it, it looks gray. My favorite eyeshadow these days is an Urban Decay set I got at Sephora over a year ago as a bday present from Sujeet (of course I had to pick it out ).

But even though I love make up, and brands that I can't really afford, I don't wear a lot of makeup usually and my eye shadows last for years. So I don't need any new make up for awhile.

I also love burt's bees chap stick and wear it every day.

[Thingee 0]

Surgiwax

Neutrogena hand cream...my hands and feet get horribly dry during the winter.

A question for those ladies with curly hair? My youngest daughter(4) has ringlet curls that frizz horribly pretty much year round. I don't think she'd tolerate the rub/braid/sleep method mentioned before. She in general doesn't tolerate goopy stuff in her hair..it's a fight to get shampoo and conditioner on! I should mention her hair is fairly thin, and that we've tried "frizz-ease" with pretty poor looking results. Her hair is just past her shoulders at this point(would be longer, but her father took it into his head she'd look cute with a 'bob' ) and is most often tied back in a variety of ways to keep it out of her face, and defeat the frizzies.

If she's four, the frizz probably looks adorable.

Four's a little young for a high-maintenance beauty routine, so I'd recommend shampooing every other day (or going no-poo like in the curlygirl link, but while that's easy, it's really geared towards teens and adults) so her hair isn't totally stripped of natural oils. Comb it only when it's wet.

Then, hmm. If she's the sit-still type.. Divide it into small sections and twist each section into a ringlet shape. Let it airdry. No hair dryer! Fluff it with her fingers. If not the sit-still type... scrunch it with your hands and let it air-dry.

And tell her she's beautiful.. My mother hated dealing with my hair and I honestly had a complex about having ringlets until I was 22.

Her frizz IS adorable...looks like a little halo when the light hits it just so. As I said, I generally pull it back into a pony tail, then dampen it just the slightest bit, it's still a bit frizzy, but she has a little poof of curls at the back of her head. She can sit still a maximum of about 3 minutes for hair stuff..and only if she's holding a brush and can see herself in the mirror.

[jordanianprincess 0]

I love going into Sephora but don't buy a lot there as it's pricey. But it's fun just going in once in awhile and trying on different make up.

At Christmas time I got a roll-on eau de parfum there by Stella McCartney for $10 and I LOVE it. It's light smelling and the roll-on is great. Usually perfumes give me a headache and I hate most of them. But I am happy I found a perfume that doesn't make me feel sick.

Also I love the Eau Des 4 Reines (four roses scent) scent from L'Occitane, which is also very light and doesn't make me sick. I get the $15 eau de toilette and it lasts me awhile.

I don't use much MAC anymore because I don't like how the eyeshadows pigment is not really as bright as it looks in the dish. I have been disappointed by many colors that look bright and as soon as you apply it, it looks gray. My favorite eyeshadow these days is an Urban Decay set I got at Sephora over a year ago as a bday present from Sujeet (of course I had to pick it out ).

But even though I love make up, and brands that I can't really afford, I don't wear a lot of makeup usually and my eye shadows last for years. So I don't need any new make up for awhile.

I also love burt's bees chap stick and wear it every day.

You are the first person that has said that to about MAC, well the first person I have heard say it. The reason I do buy MAC is because I think they have really great pigmint, a little goes a longggggg way. I have found that certain browns do look grey on me, it took some time til I found the right brown at MAC. My favorite brown is Mulch, its a shimmery brown and I use it with a cream based color called Naked Lunch. Its one of my favorite combos.

However if you are shopping for MAC, what I find is the best thing to do is to make an appointment to have your make up done with them. In our area they make you buy a $50 giftcard in order to get your make up done and then you can buy the products you like with the card which is usually not a problem for me since I drop about $100 everytime I stop by.

[jordanianprincess 0]

Oh, that reminds me of bath products. I use Brown Sugar Body Polish almost every day, and I never ever need moisturizer for my body because it is SO smooth and silky from this stuff. I think I would die without it, and I'm not exaggerating even a little bit.

Where do you buy the body polish? What brand is it? I have one that I use occasionaly but I'm not really impressed with it.

[SoL. 0]

Oh, that reminds me of bath products. I use Brown Sugar Body Polish almost every day, and I never ever need moisturizer for my body because it is SO smooth and silky from this stuff. I think I would die without it, and I'm not exaggerating even a little bit.

Where do you buy the body polish? What brand is it? I have one that I use occasionaly but I'm not really impressed with it.

There's a few aromatherapy sugar scrubs on Bath & Body Works and they leave the skin pretty soft! And the best part is that you can try them on the store, they have a sink with testers I have a hand scrub from their spa line and it's just divine, it leaves my hands like baby skin

Edited January 19, 2007 by Sol-de-Verano

[jordanianprincess 0]

Oh, that reminds me of bath products. I use Brown Sugar Body Polish almost every day, and I never ever need moisturizer for my body because it is SO smooth and silky from this stuff. I think I would die without it, and I'm not exaggerating even a little bit.

Where do you buy the body polish? What brand is it? I have one that I use occasionaly but I'm not really impressed with it.

There's a few aromatherapy sugar scrubs on Bath & Body Works and they leave the skin pretty soft! And the best part is that you can try them on the store, they have a sink with testers I have a hand scrub from their spa line and it's just divine.

I will have to check that out. I have made my own homemade scrubs and they work good too. One of my faves is Dead Sea salt with baby oil. Has anyone ever made their own homemade scrubs?

[SoL. 0]

One time I did one with honey, sugar and oats for my face and was a bit sticky but good!

Edited January 19, 2007 by Sol-de-Verano

[Henia 11]

Rose water

Cotton Balls

Sally Hansen Pretty Hands and Feet

Nivea creme (in the blue tub)

Channel Brown Sugar (which they donnot even make anymore) and Coco Red Rouge

Chamilla hand creme

Korres Sage and Nettle hair rinse

Jason Sea Fresh toothpaste

my homemade sugar wax

schwarzkopf vitalizing shampoo for oily hair

witch hazel

vitamin e caps

tweezwers

I also use rose water/cotton balls to clean my face! I think our beauty regimes have alot in common because I also make my own wax

Caladan - Got the oil in my hair!

Ye gotta love those old world natural remedies