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Lady Box Basic Needs Box Review – September 2021

October 30, 2021 No Comments

Lady Box is an organic period care box that delivers cycle care to help you feel centered and empowered. They send monthly care packages to ensure you have your best cycle yet. Lady Box offers several subscription options to match your needs. Keep it simple with a Just the Goodies box, get your basic period needs met with the Basic Needs Box, or treat yourself with the Pampered AF box. Each monthly box is customized to your preferences based on an initial quiz you submit when subscribing. It asks things like if you prefer pads or tampons, how heavy your […]

Beauty, General, Personal Care, Sustainable Living

50+ Plastic-Free Beauty, Home & Body Care Items

August 9, 2020 No Comments

The month of July might be over, but that doesn’t mean the sentiment of Plastic-Free July (or #PlasticFreeJuly rlly) should end. On the contrary! Reducing plastic waste should be an every day thought and consideration when making purchases. I’ve rounded up as many plastic-free products that I could find in my stash for inspiration and have a whopping 50+ to share on this post. Read on for this plastic-free mega resource!

Beauty, Body Care, General, Personal Care

Natural Deodorant Faves – For Sensitive Skin

May 21, 2020 No Comments

I’m back with my sensitive skin or baking soda-free deodorant favorites! As mentioned in my very original deodorant favorites post I hop around from deodorant to deodorant often, sometimes because one might all the sudden seem less effective and sometimes just for the curiosity of trying something new. Actually, when I was trying these 3 out I ended up having all three (plus some others) on rotation throughout the week because sometimes I just wanted a different scent or sometimes I didn’t feel like getting my hands messy so I used the stick version. It’s good to have options, ya know? Anyway, if you have sensitive skin and need to avoid baking soda in your natural deodorant, read on for a few that I’ve tried and liked!

Beauty, General, Personal Care

Natural Deodorant Current Favorites

May 7, 2020 No Comments

I hope you’ve all been taking advantage of this time of being around minimal people to something super important and exciting….and that’s trying out natural deodorant! Obviously, Ha! I mean, there really isn’t a better time, is there? No interaction with strangers or co-workers or even neighbors means that no one will have to know if you try one that doesn’t work. Sweating during a zoom call? No problem. Drenched after a workout? No problem. Even if it doesn’t work, not a soul will know there’s any BO in these situations except maybe your housemates, but they should love you anyway. I know natural deodorant isn’t for everyone, but it’s worth a try to find out! Read on for the most recent natural deodorants that I’ve tried out and really liked…

Beauty, General, Personal Care

Small Business Sales – Green Beauty + Beyond

March 20, 2020 No Comments

I’ve gone back and forth about sharing things related to green beauty, shopping and consumption right now because it seems almost frivolous and silly to worry about given the current situation, but I’ve heard and believe that small businesses, especially, are going to be affected by this worse than expected if we don’t step up to help them out. I pretty much always talk about small business brands anyway, but I guess this is just me saying I’m not going to stop the content from coming, it feels like the least I can do. I plan on putting several posts […]

Baby Care, General

Lydia’s October Favorites

November 5, 2019 No Comments

I’m doing something a little different with this batch of monthly favorites! I’m always testing out new products for the baby to find the safest and cleanest, best performing items and I thought why not share what emerges as favorites here. So now baby Lydia has her own monthly favorites series! Babies have a TON of skin needs actually (especially with sensitive and eczema prone skin like her) so I figure we’ll be trying out a lot of products as the years go by. She obviously can’t speak for herself on how well these products work but I know she […]

Beauty, General, Personal Care

Put to the Test – Round 6

August 8, 2019 No Comments

I’ve finally finished up another round of samples. It takes me a lot longer than I would think to use such small items haha. This round is all the pink things I had laying around. I think if all samples were colored pink I’d have even more to try out than I do already because I’d be enticed to try it just because of the color. Yes, I judge books by the cover, if you’re wondering. But really, I love pink everything! It’s convenient that most cosmetics have pink hues in their lines so it’s not hard to find items […]

Beauty, General, Personal Care

Put to the Test – Round 5

June 25, 2019 No Comments

I’m back with another round up of samples finally! I’ve been collecting these for so long and it’s about time I use them! Doing a quick rundown post like this helps me remember to actually try them out rather than just hoard them haha. Now don’t get me wrong it’s not that I don’t like trying new things – in fact I love it and I LOVE samples. I just keep forgetting! Whoops. As usual I just tried each of these 1 or 2 times to form an initial quick impression. Read on for mini review on all things RED […]

Body Care, General, Personal Care

Eczema

June 11, 2019 No Comments

Eczema is the pits. And this is the story of how I got eczema IN my pits. (The irony!) But it’s also the story about how I healed it with some natural remedies and how it gave me a clear picture about how what I put in my body directly affects my skin. Due to an unexpected and unpleasant eczema outbreak last year I was forced to go sans deodorant for 2 weeks. Now you might be thinking “the horrah! 😱” but I have to report that it went much better than expected. I, like most folk, have always HAD […]

Beauty, General, Personal Care

Birchbox – Clean Beauty Limited Edition Box

March 26, 2019 No Comments

I feel like Birchbox is one of the OG beauty boxes but I’ve never once purchased one. Partially because when it originally came out I had next to zero extra funds to get a subscription and partially because now the items in the monthly box aren’t necessarily products I would consider using. But I recently saw they had this special Clean Beauty Limited Edition box and it was too good of a deal to pass up. The value of the box is $219 and comes with 10 full size items, 1 travel size item and a rose quartz face roller. […]

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