In conducting research on the ingredients in cosmetics and household products, I was fascinated to find that many ingredients are not listed on household products. Lysol, for example, only says “Active ingredient: Hydrochloric acid 9.5%”, but that doesn’t explain what the blue colour is. Looking briefly online, I was unable to determine what exactly the [...]
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Analysis of Cosmetic Ingredients and Product Review: Better Than Cover
Giveaway winner And the winner of the Smarty had a Party giveaway is… Geosomin! Geosomin wrote: Well, it’s my birthday coming up soon, and it’s right by Halloween, so I would definitely use these supplies for a birthday/halloween shindig at my place.Then I wouldn’t have as much work cleaning up after my own party Congratulations! [...]
Product Review and Giveaway: Smarty had a Party
Since my condo is now looking lived-in and I actually own a couch and coffee table, I figured that it was about time I had friends and family over for a “little” housewarming party (four months after I moved in, hehe). Therefore, the company Smarty had a Party chose a very convenient time to send me party [...]
Product Review and Giveaway: Colgate
Winner of Tropical Traditions Honey And the winner of last week’s honey giveaway is… Jenny! E-mail me your mailing address and I will ensure that your honey arrives at your door. Today happens to be Jenny’s birthday, so Happy Birthday But I think Jenny would have won the giveaway regardless; her honey-mustard recipe and summer [...]
Product Review: Tropical Traditions Canadian Raw Honey
Don’t forget to answer this month’s blogging/journaling poll! BlogHer NYC 2010 Conference Today I am flying to New York City for this year’s BlogHer conference! If you’re in the area of attending the conference, let me know so that we can meet up Also, if the Hermes company would like to offer me one of [...]
Product Review: Easy Diet Labels
Steven of Easy Diet Labels kindly sent me some of his stickers to review a couple of weeks ago, and I have been enjoying slapping the stickers on food products all over my kitchen ever since. A bag of frozen tofu got the “Great choice” sticker. A carton of free-range eggs got the “You made a [...]
Misleading health claims
Nutrition labels and information on ingredients for food products is probably one of my most passionate interests within the field of nutrition. I even wrote a feature piece about the misleading claims on food products for a newspaper last year. So when Andrea from POM Wonderful contacted me about how Minute Maid has been misleading [...]
Product Review: Align Digestive Care Probiotic Supplement
Ever since I went vegan for a month in September 2009, I’ve really cut back on dairy. I drink non-dairy milk (either soy milk or almond milk, unsweetened). I cut out cheese entirely for a while, but I have been eating more of it lately, just in smaller portions. I have also stopped eating yogurt. [...]
Product Review: Miracle Skin Transformer
Don’t forget to answer this month’s poll about sunscreen! I use moisturizer daily, so when I was offered the opportunity to try out this product before it has even been released to the public, I was all too eager to do so. Disclaimer: I received the sample for free and did not receive any further [...]
Product Review and Giveaway: Tropical Traditions Coconut Flour
Tropical Traditions recently sent me a large 1-kg bag of organic coconut flour to review. After taste-testing their coconut oil, I was quite eager to try coconut flour (their coconut flour has one ingredient: organic dried coconut). Disclaimer: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under [...]
