Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Being a mother has meant I've often put myself on the back burner, as all good mothers tend to do! My kids are grown now and finally I can spend a few moments fussing with things I haven't spent time on since my college days, one of which is good skin care. I have oily skin, which is great for keeping any and all wrinkles at bay, even at 45!, and of course, I stay out of the sun (who has time to sunbathe!), but I've always tackled skin care in the usual ways - strip the skin with strong astringents, which only cause the skin to make more oil.

Well, my wonderful and thoughtful daughter gave me a gift kit of skin care products for Mother's Day - from Burt's Bees. Now, I've seen these products at my local health food store, when I go to get my horse chestnut root and vitamins, but never tried them. Not even a week after using the samples, I was and am hooked! She bought me a line for mature and sensitive skin (was she trying to tell me that I'm old!?), and I'm amazed at how good my skin feels and looks, and is hardly ever really oily any more! I can see I'm going to be buying Burt's Bees for a very long time.

I use their Rosewater and Glycerine toner (very mild) and their Marshmallow Vanishing Creme. Not marshmallow, like in S'Mores, but from the Marshmallow plant - Althea Officinalis. Burt's Bees can be found here: burtsbees and here: drugstore

I've bought twice from the drugstore.com site and each time bought enough things to get the free shipping (it's really easy to add up skin care, herbs and vitamins!). And, they deliver *very* quicklly. I am trying out 2 of their olive oil soaps - one made in Italy and the other made in Greece, by a company called Kiss My Face. What a surprise to see an 8 oz bar of soap, for $2.89! With a knife, I split the behemoth of a bar into 3, more easily useable bath size bars. So far, I like it alot, but want to try some goat's milk soap I saw on the drugtore.com site, as well.
Dawn