*twitter twitter* Ooohh! Like I've just posted in the In-Liven thread: I'm soooo excited! I've just received a new delivery from One Group. It includes a few new products that I've never tried before:
Jaffa Lip Balm (for me)
Mint Toothpaste (for the kids)
Ancient Spice deodorant (For DH)
And to make things more exciting my sister RoseHannah sent me a package containing some Sunflower Body Wash and Rose Monsoon Hydrating Mist on the same day!!!
I'm in One Group Heaven! LOL
Ok... so here's trying the new jaffa lip balm.... Hmmm... generous quantity (as usual, this is one thing I like about One Group products... the quantity is usually more than supermarket products)... Um, how do i open it??? LOL bit hard to squeeze out... but maybe that's because it's such a cold day and the beeswax is too firm... seems to be softening with a bit of massage.... smells divine... oh yum! Comes out slowly but should last a while! And at least my kids won't be able to waste it!!! So many of my other lip balms have been wasted by my kids gouging them out of the tube.
Now to the Ancient Spice: Yes, very spicy... looking forward to smelling it on my DH! Once again a generous 70ml whereas his usual Rexona roll On is only 50ml. Makes the price comparable to supermarket products.
Mint Toothpaste: I'll review later after I have my afternoon cuppa (in my BB mug of course ) LOL
Rose Hydrating Mist: oooh lovely! Very similar to the Jurlique one I used to buy. Claims to calm my soul too hehe... let's see how it works during our witching hour!!!
Well I'm still loving my face care products, they smell so lovely. I am trying the Sunflower body wash too, it has a great fresh smell. So far I would recommend all these products to other people, and a great way to shop for presents.
Update: regarding the toothpaste: my kids don't like it. It's too salty. I suspect if i had used it with them right from the very start they would have dealt with it... but now that they are used to supermarket toothpaste I can't see that i will be able to "convert" them onto the MiEssence one until they are older. My 13yo will use it... but reluctantly. Oh well... I'll use it up... not money wasted.
The lip balm has been hard to use on cold days too. Beeswax is a main ingredient (which is much better than petro-chemicals) but it takes a while to warm up. I LOVE the smell and feel of it though... maybe if the nozzle was a little bit bigger....?
Ooooh so excited... waiting on another MiEssence order! Ordered about 5 things... can't remeber them all... includes the Dessert Flower Shampoo, and a moisturising spray for my hair that has become very dry over summer. Also i noticed that the jaffa lip balm is now available in stick format! How interesting... after my last comment about it being hard to use on a cold day. Hope it smell/feels/tastes as good. Anyone tried it?
I just wanted to post that I'm getting very interested in Miessence! I'm having some great results with my DD's eczema using the Sunflower body wash, Desert Flower shampoo and intensive moisturiser along with Medihoney eczema cream. She smells good enough to eat.
I wasn't so sure about the intensive body moisturiser at first, I thought it felt really oily on my hands, but either I've gotten used to it or DD's skin just drinks it up because she doesn't feel greasy at all.
I'm having a horrible time with an itchy scalp at the moment and it's my own fault, I've known for years that any product with silicone in it irritates my scalp. But I was having bad post-preggy hair problems and decided to spend a fortune on some products the hairdresser recommended...each one of them has silicone in them. Vanity got the better of me. I thought that I would be able to put up with the itch until I used the products up but I couldn't stand it any longer. My scalp felt like it was on fire sometimes.
(BTW - how hard is it to find a hair product that doesn't have silicone in it these days? grrr).
So I stole DD's Miessence shampoo and bought myself a travel size Miessence conditioner. After only one wash the itch was a lot less and the second wash better again. Unfortunately I now have really bad hair...silicone detox I suppose. Will be interesting to see how my hair is in a month or so.
DS likes the sunflower body wash too...he calls it "the pretty soap" LOL.
My birthday is coming up...I'm thinking Miessence gift vouchers...
I'm happy that these are Australian made and organic. Since about 2002 I've been quite into an American essential oil brand that are very much into keeping things pure and natural, to the point where if anyone harvesting their plants is feeling upset or emotional they get sent home so as not to transfer negative energies...they do a few personal care products for kids and I was looking at buying them. But then I found that a lot of them have silicone (dimethicone) in them and one of the shampoos has phthalates - so no go.
The more I read on this kind of thing, the more alarmed I get. I remember with fondness my days of blissful ignorance.
Curly, have you tried the MOPS range? Its an organic range of hair care that has a specific one for us curly girls.... its lush!!! I didn't get good results with Mi-essence, so I tried MOPS and its great. I also use "No-poo"ing and that has worked really well after a fortnight detoxing! I did "No-poo" for around 6 months and then got sucked into mops.
Just google "no-poo" you'll need vinegar and bicarb thats it.
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Ordered about 5 things... can't remeber them all... includes the Dessert Flower Shampoo, and a moisturising spray for my hair that has become very dry over summer. Also i noticed that the jaffa lip balm is now available in stick format! How interesting... after my last comment about it being hard to use on a cold day. Hope it smell/feels/tastes as good. Anyone tried it?
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