Scrub for Good!

I know it is very late in the month, but I didn't want to leave out LaLicious and it's contribution for BCA month.

LaLicious is giving 20% of sales from its’ Best-Selling Scrub Sampler to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Fund.

The Lalicious Sugar Soufflé Sampler three-pack of mini scrubs comes in your choice of either Brown Sugar Vanilla, Coconut Cream, or Coffee Bean or Lily Mango, Gardenia, and Passionfruit Lime .

The scrubs are not only delicious sounding, they work divinely. With the perfect combination of their ingredients, LaLicious Soufflés' sugar helps exfoliate, condition, moisturize, and smooth you to perfection

The sampler sets are $25 and are available exclusively on lalicious.com.

Faith. Hope. Courage.

I have just been introduced to the most wonderful line of bath, body, and home fragrances - umm. They smell so delightful! And they are from Sweet Grass Farm.

Sweet Grass Farm has created one of their best selling products, fragrance sticks, in a special edition for BCA month. It is titled Faith Hope Courage, and the scent is Carnation & Pink Peppercorn. The decorative bottle that is included is even decorated with a pink ribbon to remind us.

Fragrance Sticks have been around for a while now, but I just tried them. They are simple to use. You fill the vase (or decorative bottle) with the fragrance oil, place the sticks inside the vase/bottle. Soon your room will be filled with the fragrance as the absorbent sticks carry the oils up and deliver the perfect amount of scent. And the best thing about them is that when the sticks seem dry, you simply turn them upside down to "refresh" them, and they will start working again. It is simple, and makes a pretty piece. And they are a great alternative to places where candles cannot be burned, such as a dorm room or workplace.

The fragrance stick set can be purchased from their website and retails for $29.95 which includes the bottle, 8 oz. of the fragrance oil, and the reeds. The site also lists retailers where their wonderful products can be purchased.

In Search of More Pink.

So my daughter, Doodles, & I (and hubby too) were at the Mall Saturday night on a mission. First plan of attack was to use her expiring 20% off coupon at Limited Too (she is 11!) and secondly, I wanted to find a few more great "Pink Products" - meaning more beauty products that were in support of BCA.

On our way to the bigger and better Sephora store (they just relocated in the Mall) as we surpassed L'Occiitane, Doodles stopped dead in her tracks and asked if I knew about this one yet. I had not seen L'Occitane's BCA entry, so we entered the store. I was so excited to see that it was a limited edition Shea Butter Ultra Rich Body Cream in which 15% of the purchase price of $36 was to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. I made the purchase - yippe - it smells divine! So far, I have only tested it out on my hands, but I will be sure to post a full review soon.

Our next stop was definitely Sephora. As we entered, Doodles thought that the entire Piink collection from Sephora was for BCA, but as I quickly explained how that was just their little collection of Piink, she didn't quite care. "It is Pink, Mom", she was squealing, and went on how she needed something from here - so I let hubby stay by her so she could touch and try everything out, as this gave me a chance to roam around to find more of what I was really looking for.

Of course, I grabbed Philosophy's Shower for the Cure ($20) as soon as I saw it. I love their 3-in-1 shampoo, bath, body washes, but I don't splurge on them that often. Well, this was the perfect chance. I love the fresh, clean scent. I stopped by the end cap of Bare Escentuals and gave their Pink Passion ($48) set a good look-over, but having not been the biggest fan of their glosses, I decided to look around a bit more to see what else I may purchase instead. That is when I made my way to the Stila section to look for their BCA It Gloss Trio, but I soon found that they were sold out already. (Mental note to myself, order one tonight - they are still there on the website!) Across from Stila, was a huge collection of makeup brushes. That is where I found Sephora's BCA Mini Kabuki Brush ($10) - which I could always use! It is so perfectly hot pink - and a great size, so that was quickly added to my basket. Almost immediately as I turned around, a few lovely ladies were holding LORAC's Perfectly Pink Blush ($25). Seeing as that was on my list to look over, I asked where they found it, and I headed on over to grab one up. The blush is just too pink for me, but not for my extremely fair sister who looks awesome in a really pink blush. It will be one of her stocking stuffers (from her baby daughter). And that got me thinking back to BE's Pink Passion set, and how my Mom might really enjoy that. So I ran back and grabbed it for her. Ooh, another present down, and Christmas shopping was not even a thought when I got to the mall. That got me thinking - I always spend about $20 on a little trinket for each of my kids teachers - and what a better way than to grab something now that will benefit BCA too. I ran over to hubby with the idea, where he asked how much I was planning on spending tonight - geez, the nerve of him, and ultimately agreeed that it was a nice idea. So I grabbed 4 more Shower for the Cures'.

So I was done - or so I thought. Right next to the register they had tubes of a pink GoSmile Morning Rush Toothpaste ($5) that I just needed to add to my order. How sweet - I hope!

Done? My poor daughter. I guess that hubby had already explained that we were on our mission to get more pink beauty items and not what "Doodles wants, Doodles gets, totally unnecessary for an 11 year old items". So, yes, we were done! To the tune of $188 - not bad.

After the $36 at L'Occitane and this, I dared not ask hubby to step into Nordie's so I could take a look see at their counters. I also knew I'd be back during the week with no one in tow. ;)