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Eco Tools is a highly raved about drugstore brand of makeup brushes and beauty products that focus on being as eco friendly as possible. I recently bought a set of these brushes and am totally in love with them! So I whent to their site and found something really amazing. They actually have a makup brush and other beauty product recycling program! It's called the Choose to Live Beautifully Campaign and how it works is that you send them your leftover or cast away beaty products and they recycle them and send you a coupon for $7.99! The set of eyeshadow brushes that I purchased were $7.99, so basically you get a free eco tools product in exchange to recycling your old ones. I've never thought about recycling my old makup brushes or leftover body washes and shower sponges. I just thought they weren't recyclable. So for more information check out their Choose to live beautifully page and make an even larger difference while staying beautiful!

In June I had a bad reaction to the Hazel eyes, eyeshadow duo by Physicians Formula's organic wear line. I had bought both of the duos that my local Fred Meyer had in stock and had no issue with the other duo. I quickly realized that I was only reacting to the light pink shade that was in the duo and not the dark brown color. This puzzled me because the ingredients for both colours are the same. So that lead me to consider that the reaction wasn't to the overall product or line of products but that the light pink in particular may have somehow become contaminated. My theory on this is simple... Crap happens and sometimes you get a bad batch. I still am totally in love with Physicians Formula as a brand and after how they handled this incident I'm even more devoted to the brand.  I emailed the company letting them know what happend and asking if they were aware of any bad batches recently. They got back to me promptly and not only offered me a refund but also sent me a return label so I could ship them the eyeshadow so "they could test it for defects". Now that blew me away. Yes most companies will offer a refund but to ship the product back to them at their cost and actually test it really impressed me. This company truely cares for their customers and I'm grateful for their amazing service. I also recently recieved nearly $30 in checks from them for the 'try me free' program they offer. So yes I had a fluke but this company is still at the top of my list and always will be.

Organic Splenor's online shop is now up and running! The're still adding and adjusting but I'm excited are you? Their blog is also now going strong. Subscribe and share your love for healthy beauty! Also I finally did my first youtube video! On Organic Splendor of course. Please give it a look and subscribe, like, comment, anything.  

July's EcoEmi box was amazing! I seriously love every product and the packaging. If you haven't jumped on this wagon I insist you do. For more information check out my EcoEmi page or check out their site

July EcoEmi Box!

This month's box blew my mind! It was so cute. When I opend the box a bunch of tiny pink star confetti fell out. My constant favorite thing about these boxes are the reusable, eco & culturally sustainable bags. Just look at how awesome that one with the key on it is ;-)

Ok so at first glance the stand out favorite of my roomates and myself this month is the fortune cookie soap. Yes you read correctly "Fortune Cookie Soap" how adorable is that?! At first glance it even had a fortune in it which mom and I both were incredibly excited to read. But when I pulled it out all it said was a discount code and that it was made with lavender essential oil (my favorite scent btw). So we were kind of disapointed about that but the discount code is actually very good. The soap is purple and has a hint of glitter to it, it smells divine and made the perfect addition to my 'girly bathroom things'. The cookie soap retails for about $2.75 I believe. Totally a deal to begin with! I will deffinately be ordering some of these for the next round of goodie bags I need to put together. 

July's Box like I said was full of so many usefull things. It came with a really generous size sample of coconut oil that I can't wait try. I've been dying to try this as a hair mask. I passed the two floor cleaner samples on to my mom who was strangely happy about it. The little case of cinnamints whent dirrectly into my purse for future emergency situations. One thing that really impressed me when I finished unwrapping everything is that I realized that the lotion (shown on the right) is a brand that my local Rite Aid carries. That was exciting for me because I'm always on the look out of natural, effective, resonably priced products that are available locally. This box was nothing but amazing things this month and I can't wait to dive into them!

For more information please see http://ecoemi.com/ and please take the time to read their about me and Did you know pages as they are truly touching and eye opening.

Organic Splendor

Hello again! I wanted to share this amazing foundation with everyone. This line of cosmetics is called Organic Splendor and is so far the best natural foundation that I have found. The owner of the company, Denise, was so kind every step of the way. She not only chose the right shades for me but she also gave me tips on how best to apply it in order to get the desired coverage I need.

So to start I want to say that I normally use Make Up Forever's Matt Velvet foundation which is full coverage and water resistant. I've been on this 'path' of swapping all my products for more natural and healthy ones but until this point I've never found a natural full coverage foundation. I have really oily skin and even with my favorite cosmetics I still manage to get shiny after a few hours. I must admit that I don't really like mineral/powder foundation because not only do they rarely offer full coverage but with my oily skin they tend to go on splotchy looking and slide right off in a few hours. So I honestly didn't have high expectations but man was I wrong.

Denise assured me that this foundation was buildable to any amount of coverage and it definitely is! As per her guidance, I mixed the powder foundation with my Burts Bees daily moisturizer spf to make it more of a liquid foundation for easier use and application. Given my doubts about it being full coverage or not, I mixed it really thick so it was more like a paste. So much for the easier application lol. But I was instantly amazed at the coverage and how it evens out my skin tone. So because of how thick I mixed the product I ended up with a really thick application. But in spite of that it didn't look very cakey at all and I was truly amazed after a couple hours of wearing it. At about the time that my normal foundation would allow my skin to become an oil slick this foundation seemed to resettle itself on my skin without needing so much as a blot or additional powder. The picture of me was taken after 6 hours of wearing the foundation. Pretty good if I may say so myself. So please watch my video and subscribe to my blog and youtube channel if you like it and want to see more. Feel free to send my any questions, comments or recommendations you may have. Have a Happy & Healthy Day!

Organic Splenor sites:
http://organicsplendor.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ORGANIC-SPLENDOR/118753451485843
http://www.youtube.com/user/deniseotterson
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