I was really excited when I got the opportunity to review Babushka’s Beauty Secrets Old World Tips For A Glamorous New You.

I love trying homemade beauty products, and the fact that the book was written by an esthetician, Raisa Ruder, made this book even more interesting to me. After all, you expect an esthetician to know what works for skin, and what might be damaging. I loved the stories about Raisa’s Babushka, which means Grandmother in the Ukraine, who had her own kitchen beauty business mixing up skin products tailored for the women seeking her services.

Raisa has compiled some of her Babushka’s original recipes, tweaked some of them to make them better and easier for her clients to use, and added some of her own recipes to make a book full of easy to use home made beauty recipes.

Babushka’s Beauty Secrets provides a list of must have tools and an ingredient list for the well stocked kitchen. Although there are some ingredients in the recipes that I don’t have in my house right now, almost all of the ingredients are available in my local supermarket, and should be easty for me to find.

Most of the recipes are actually recipes I’d try - although some of them are a little scary. The Tea Time Bath Recipe calls for 1/2 cup dried flower petals, and says “get them from old flowers in the house.” I don’t know about you, but I try not to keep dried flowers in my house.

After a bad experience trying to get mayonnaise out of my hair, I’m a little skeptical about the I’ll take mayo and mustard recipe, which combines … mayo and mustard and cayenne pepper. I did try to get my husband to try that one, but he wouldn’t. He doesn’t need to grow his hair out though, so it’s probably a good thing he didn’t try it.

I really enjoyed reading the stories, and the information about what certain recipes were supposed to to do.

I also love that the beauty recipes are relatively easy, and combine eassy to find ingredients, with ingredients that are already in most househoulds.

There’s nothing like getting ready for a nice pampering evening, and realizing you have to run to the store to get the ingredients.

If you like Babushkas and making your own beauty recipes, I definitely recommend that you check out this book.

Disclosure: Samples from the company or the representing PR agency were provided for this review and for this giveaway. The opinions presented in this review are my own.

5 years ago tonight I decided to start a blog because I couldn’t afford all of the expensive products that I saw being reviewed everywhere I visited online.

A lot has changed since then, and I don’t think that I could have ever imagined where I’d be now when I started the blog.

I’ve met so many wonderful people, and got to try so many fabulous new products as a result of this blog.

Thank you so much for coming along for the ride.

Jessi is the winner of our Suave Mango Mandarin Body Wash!

Jessi said “Having a day off work makes me happy!”

Jessi, I’ll be emailing you, and you’ll have 3 days to contact me with your email address, or a new winner will be chosen.

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Just a reminder that’s the last day to enter the Suave Naturals® Mango Mandarin Refreshing Body Wash giveaway.

Have a great weekend.

We’re off to take the little one for a checkup soon, other than that we don’t have anyting exciting planned this weekend.

How about you?

Isn’t it great when your children reach milestones?

Unfortunately, there are some that I wish our little one wouldn’t meet.

Just last night she unfastened one side of her disposable diaper.

It makes me pretty glad that most of our cloth diapers have snaps, instead of velcro, so it should take her a little bit longer to figure them out.

I’ve had 2 new gifts sitting unopened on my makeup counter for over three weeks.

One’s a new lipgloss that I’ve been scared to try because DH doesn’t like kissing me when I wear lipgloss, and I don’t like leaving lipgloss on the baby.

The second is a new cream eyeshadow, that I just haven’t tried because the colors (black and gray) are a little much for daytime, but mainly because it’s so much easier to grab a powdered shadow and just swipe it on.

I haven’t even been using my favorite loose shadows because it seems like I don’t have enough time.

I still get my makeup on most of the time when I leave the house, but I try to do it as quickly as possible.

Has your makeup routine changed lately?

How has it changed?

If you’re a parent, did it change after you had kids?

Did it ever get back to your prebaby normal routine?

My husband and I have been using Suave Naturals® Mango Mandarin Refreshing Body Wash, which I recieved to review as part of Suave’s Catch a Moment of Bliss Campaign, for about 2 1/2 weeks.

The first day the body wash was in the shower, my husband comes out of the shower saying “I like the new shampoo!”

I looked at him skeptically, and said “What shampoo?”

He replied “The orange stuff.”

When I told him that it was body wash, he said “That’s why my hair feels funny.”

In his defense, there were several bottles of suave shampoo and conditioner in the shower, and this was the first time we’d used Suave body wash at home.

Jeff’s hair is coarse, and thick, and the body wash really didn’t make his hair look any different than usual.

There’s no way I would try this body wash on my hair, and Jeff hasn’t used it as shampoo again, but if you’re looking for a good smelling body wash/shampoo that smells like mango mandarin, and you don’t have temperamental hair …

We also liked this as a body wash.

The citrusy fragrance smells really good in the shower, and the smell doesn’t linger on my skin.

I’m sure you’ve seen the Suave ads that say it has the “Same great fragrance appeal as Bath & Body Works.”

This is really relevant to us since Jeff is allergic to something in some of the bath and body works products, so I can’t use them any more.

It’s nice to be able to use something that smells great, and doesn’t break the bank.

Suave as also nice enough to provide a Suave Naturals® Mango Mandarin Refreshing Body Wash for me to giveaway to one of my US readers.

Since this is part of the “Catch a Moment of Bliss Campaign” just leave a comment about something that makes you feel blissful or something that makes you happy to enter.

The giveaway will end at 12:00 AM June 26, and the winner will be posted by the following Monday.

The giveaway is limited to US entries, the winner will have 3 days to contact me with their mailing address or a new winner will be chosen. The body wash will be mailed from Suave.

*Contest closed, congratulations to Jessi*
Disclosure: Samples from the company or the representing PR agency were provided for this review and for this giveaway. The opinions presented in this review are my own. I was not financially compensated for this review or the giveaway.