I hope everyone enjoyed reading about the wonderful personal care products I received.
Part two will focus on everything else.

• I got the cream cleanser from EcoStore USA. It is a cleanser that can be used to clean just about any surface. I love the smell and I love that it is earth-friendly and not harmful to me and my family.

• From Naked Binder, I received 9 binders in different colors. These are great! They are sturdy and will last, not to mention they are very green. I will be able to find many good purposes for these.

• From Buygreen.com I decided to get a wool pillow, it is standard size and firm and I love it! It seems like it has been a long time since I had a really good, quality pillow, but now I finally have one that is green and healthy. Definitely one of my favorites.

• Watercheck.biz sent me an indoor water conservation kit. I have not had the opportunity to use everything in the kit yet, but it is a great little kit to help you make your home more eco-conscious.

• Ecominders sent me some of all 3 of their product lines. I also received t-shirts and a reusable tote, which I take to the farmers market with me every Thursday. I love these products. They serve as great reminders to take steps to be more friendly to the planet and to be more conscious of what we are doing.

• Barefoot Books sent me 2 books from their collection. One called Whole World and another called The Sun in Me. These are both great books to teach children about being kind to the planet and about the earth and all of the beautiful things that it holds

• weeBgreen sent a kidzsack that is adorable!!! I don’t have any children, but I know just the little girl who will absolutely love it! These little bags are great, they are recycled and the markers are non-toxic.

• Project GLO sent me 15 pens, and I absolutely love them!!! These pens are so great to use and so great for the planet.

• From Intentionkits.com I received an intention kit with confidence, strength, and courage intention cards and intention tiles with the words power, strength, confidence, courage, and Ask! Believe! Receive! These are great little kits to help focus on areas in which one feels they need help or improvement.

• From Natural Luxe I ordered a scrabble tile pendant which I absolutely adore! This is another one of my favorite items. I had a very hard time choosing what to order with my gift certificate, but I am so glad that I chose this.

• From Happy Baby Organics I received coupons for trial offers for many of their meals. As I stated before I do not have children, but I am going to give these to some friends so that they can try the products.

Thanks again Eco-Office Gals for giving me the opportunity to try these products and to get to know these wonderful companies!

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Ginny’s GMW Giveaway Review Part 2

First, I want to thank Eco-Office Gals for even making these reviews possible, I was floored when I won the 2nd annual Green my World Earth Day Giveaway! As part one of two, I will be reviewing the personal care products I received.

From EcoStore USA, I received two of each bar soap that they offer. The scents offered are coconut, vanilla, lemongrass, and manuka honey & kelp. I really liked the freshness of the lemongrass scent and the subtly sweet vanilla. And the coconut, well, it made me feel like I was on vacation in Hawaii when I used it! However, my favorite was the manuka honey & kelp. It smells faintly of the sea and it has exfoliating properties, which I found invigorating.

Affordable Mineral Makeup has so many great products that it was hard to choose which ones I wanted. I ended up choosing coconut organic lip balm, light green concealer, and defense primer. Since I am a lip balm junkie, that was the first thing I tried. It is not heavy or sticky and leaves my lips looking luscious and soft. The light green concealer is great for covering blemishes and stays put throughout the day. I am absolutely in love with the defense primer…. my skin looked porcelain pretty after I used it under my foundation. 

I received the Rose Monsoon Hydrating Mist from Ely Organics. This is a great product to carry in your purse for those hot days when you need a quick refresher. Just take it out and spray it on your face a couple of times for a real pick-me-up. It smells faintly of roses and helps to awaken the skin as well as the senses.

Kir DeVries has a Natural All-in-One Body Bar in Floral Scent, which I just had to have. The smell is divine, it reminds me of summer. And the best part? It feels great on the skin and does not leave any residue behind.

Cactus & Ivy sent me an Almond Biscotti Body Souffle. When I opened it, I just melted, thinking I am supposed to use this on my skin, not eat it right? It smells divinely of rich, decadent desserts. When they say a little goes a long way, they mean it. I like to use this at night because it is a little too rich for me for daytime wear, and my skin feels so nourished and moisturized when I wake up each morning. This was one of my favorite products.

From Natural Luxe I received the Nettiescrub Body Buff in Lemon Scent. Talk about waking up in the morning! The smell of this and the feel of the granules on my skin are enough to start my day off on the right foot.

My very favorite products came from Sarva Soap. I ordered three bar soaps, the scents were Santosha, Cedar Aloe, and Ocean Mist. Santosha reminds of something you would smell in a day spa. It is a beautiful scent. Cedar Aloe smells mostly of cedar with a faint hint of aloe. Ocean Mist was my favorite scent. I felt like I was walking on the beach when I used it. This soap also works as an exfoliate. These bar soaps are beautifully crafted and beautifully packaged. I would highly recommend these as a personal treat or a gift for a loved one.

Stay tuned for part two!

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Ginny’s GMW Giveaway Review Part 1

Let’s get this party started!

Earth Day (Month) is approaching and Eco-Office Gals wants to get as many people as possible on board to grow a little greener.   If you’ve been wanting to, trying to, thinking about growing a little greener there’s no better time to do it then now! We don’t want to make you go it alone either. We have once again reached out to our great green cyberspace friends to bring you green products to Green Your World!

Last year Eco-Office Gals Green My World Giveaway was a HUGE hit and we will give it a go again!!

Today, we’ll just get things started.  We’ll give you a chance to check out a few of the initial sponsors and a peek at the prizes coming in, look around their sites and get your creative green juices flowing.  So, lets get started!

Welcome all our Earth Day Giveaway Sponsors for 2010 and their generous donations to Green Your World (I will be adding to the list throughout the coming weeks!):

• EcoStore USA – Gift basket with 10 products
• Affordable Mineral Make Up – $25 Gift Certificate
• Naked Binder – Set of 9 project binders (one of all colors)
• Ely Organics – $25 eGift Certificate
• BuyGreen.com – $50 Gift Certificate
• Watercheck.biz – Niagara Conservation XSWEK07 Indoor Water Conservation EcoKit
• Kir DeVries – $25 Gift Certificate
• Ecominders – Ecominders Gift Bag – A reusable tote with packages of all 3 Ecominders product lines – Home, Office and Kids & Schools, along with organic cotton adult & children’s Ecominders t-shirts
• Barefoot Books – One World, One Planet Gift Collection
• weeBgreen – 1 kidzsack
• Project GLO – very adorably wrap 3 sets of 5 pens made from biodegradable cardboard and corn plastic!
• Cactus & Ivy – Body Souffle
• Sarva Soap – $25 gift certificate plus 15% coupon off first purchase
• Intention Kits – 1 Intention Kit made on Recycled Paper
• Natural Luxe – $25 eGift Certificate
• HappyFamily Organics – 2 free trials for each product line, 2 free trails for YB Meals, FAQ Guide on organics, HappyFamily Nutrition Guide, HappyFamily Recipes, HappyBaby’s new book “Our Organic guide to the first 24 months

This list is growing by the day sooo…  here’s the deal, one person will win it ALL! Put your green recycled thinking caps on since  you will need to do a little work! You need to green up your act!  Absolutely, no “Thanks for the great giveaway” comments, they WILL be deleted.  DO NOT copy and paste someone’s comment as your own, be original.  You can enter as many times as you’d like as long as you follow one of the options below. For shipping purposes – US residents only, please.  Contest will end April 22nd Earth Day, at 12 noon (EST). One winner will be picked to win the whole thing! This will not be a random drawing, rather the person that really seems to put some effort towards making a difference in their life will be given the chance to make their changes with there great products!

• Pick a green step that will help the environment. Something new, that you are not already doing. Leave a comment about it, or if you post about it on your own blog, provide a link in your comment so we can check it out!
• Leave a comment about any progress and achievements in your green goals, too.  Let us know how it’s going!
• Leave a unique tip to be green, chemical free, etc
• Visit the sponsors and let us know how one of their products could help your green up your act.  Leave a link to the product so we can all check it out.
• Send out a tweet about the giveaway & consider using the #earthtweet hashtag – be sure to include a link to it.
• Use other Social Networking avenues to get the word out about the giveaway and let us know which ones you did.
• Add the giveaway button to your sidebar and let us know you did. Here’s the code:

<a href=”http://eco-officegals.com/2010/02/14/2nd-annual-green-my-world-earth-day-giveaway-2010/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://eco-officegals.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/earthday.png” border=”0″ alt=”Green My World”></a>

• Think a product is so awesome on one of our sponsors sites, you can’t wait to win before you buy? Leave 5 separate entries telling us what you bought from who — we will confirm.

Be sure to sign up for Eco-Office Gals RSS by feed or email.  I’ll be continuing to bring you information, tips and events from our sponsors and may just throw in a few extra ways to enter as we go along!

Sooooo…. although this years giveaway received 1229 visit I only recieved 163 entries into the giveaway. You would think this would make picking a winner easier right? NO! There were some wonderful comments left by many of you on how you are going green and how you hope to make a lighter impact on the earth in the future. Many of you also did a wonderful job tweeting and sharing to spread the word about this giveaway and all of it’s great sponsors. So, it wasn’t easy to hand pick a winner at all! However as I continued to read through the comments one person started to shine through with their great efforts already in place, their acknowledged need for improvement, helpful tips, genuine thoughts and aspirations for their continued green efforts in the future.  So, the winner has been picked!

Ginny – Congrats we are going to Green your world!! Check out her comments:

• So, I am sure this is just the start of my greening and trying to do extra things and “think out of the box”, but I have been very conscious of the chemicals in my products for awhile, but it sometimes seems really hard to really keep on top of it. So, I am going to be creating some of my own skin care products. I bought a book with some recipes and I am buying bottles and organic essential oils so that they are really pure. The bottles are glass so that there is no BPA in them for me or my family. For me going green and being healthy are one and the same. I also have subscriptions to some magazines. I usually recycle them as soon as I am done, but I have some friends who are interested in reading, so we are going to trade between the three of us, all I ask is that they give them back if they have no intention of recycling or that they recycle them when they are done. I am going to start paying more attention to packaging as well. I have noticed that there are some products which cannot be recycled in my area, so I am going to try to make an effort to pay attention to the plastic that is in the packaging, etc. so that it doesn’t go in the trash, it can be recycled.
• So, in addition to what I previously posted I am going to buy a Barnes and Noble Nook…. I am an avid reader and I can save a lot of trees if I go that route. I am also going to take some of my old books that I don’t want to the local thrift store. I need to buy some new clothes because I lost some weight too… I still have more to lose so I don’t want to revamp my whole wardrobe so I will buy some clothes at a consignment shop to get me through. There are new clothes there sometimes and some really good stuff for way cheaper than buying it brand new! And when I lose the weight I want to buy clothes that are organic and made of natural fabrics. This might sound kind of gross too… but I know they make things like the Diva Cup and reusable ladies products, so I have been looking into those options. I am counting the days to the farmer’s market as well so I can buy local, fresh produce. Showers are a hard one for me… I love my showers but I really need to conserve water, so I am trying to keep them to under 7 minutes… I will try to get down to 5 minutes… baby steps right?
• Green Tip: Avoid products with Parabens in them! They are bad for you and your family and they wash down the drain when you use them in the bath!
• Green Tip: Don’t throw medicines/prescriptions in the toilet or down the sink, they contaminate the water supply. There is more information on what to do at fda.gov
• I am looking at getting a composter and rain barrels this year. I am seriously considering taking the local train to work this year, even though it is a 2 mile walk from the station to work, that will be fine. My husband and I have reduced our trash so much that we only have to put the trash bins out every 4-5 weeks, all the rest goes to recycle. I have also noticed that I have been looking more closely to the packaging of food products that we buy… I am trying specifically to look for plastics that can be recycled. I used to buy a handful of organic products when I would shop, now I try to buy as much organic as I can. My mindset is changing I noted the other day because instead of thinking of how much it costs right now, I am thinking of the long term effect. I have also sworn off of aerosols…. even though I never liked the hairsprays that come in the spritzy type bottles, I will use them for the greater good (old habits are hard to break I guess). I am also not using the disposable break items at work anymore. I bought some bamboo utensils to use and a ceramic mug and we bought some glass containers to put our food in that needs to be heated so that we are not exposed to the chemicals in the plastic containers. Whew…. that was quite the novella.
• Green Tip: Eat locally grown foods and eat what is in season! It will reduce your carbon footprint.
• Oh! I forgot! I am really trying to eat more like a vegetarian. I am having mixed success so far, but I am working on eating lower on the food chain overall!
• I will be making bar soap for my hubby and I as well here in a couple of weeks.
• Well…. I watched the movie Food Inc. and man does that make me angry! I think that has been the best diet for me thus far! I am not going to support that kind of thing, that is horrible and we are slowly killing everyone! I subscribed to E magazine (the environmental magazine) and man does that have some good information. I sent in some information to volunteer for environmental data recovery to help for the future. Oh, and I finally hit my goal with the 7 minute shower! Now to move on to 5 minutes! I am really loving this green movement and I am finally fully immersed I think, after going into it gradually for the last couple of years I am at the point where it just makes me angry that we are subjected to the chemicals and such that we are subjected to and it washes into our water and pollutes and ugh!!! So mad…. but happy to that I feel I can make a difference.
• Oh, and my hubby and I are looking into getting solar panels… I don’t know if we can afford it yet, but it is definitely on our list of improvements to make along with replacing the old windows with more efficient ones.

I hope you will all take a bit to read all of the great comments shared by everyone and get inspired to make everyday Earth Day! Thank you all for your efforts!  Congrats again Ginny!

And we have heard back from Ginny:

OMG Jennifer!!!  I am so happy!  This has really made my week you are so awesome! Wow, you really made my day with this one, I am so excited to try everything!!!

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2nd Annual Green My World Earth Day Giveaway 2010!

Two important subjects to bring to everyone’s attention before you officially start your weekend.

The Green Crusaders

I was given the opportunity to review The Green Path Comany’s PDF version of the first in a series of The Green Crusaders: The Filaments see the Light.

The Green Crusaders are a group of Eco-superheroes who are dedicated to teaching families about simple ways to lead more earth-friendly lives. Our series of short stories, written for children ages 5 – 10 years of age, centers around Recycle Mycle, Hydro Hannah and Kilowatt Karlos and their sidekicks Plastic Mastiff and Eco-Ally.

Since my 6 year old spent the night at Grandma’s last night and my 4 year old is still crashed out, I read thru this book by myself as I sipped my morning coffee.  The Filaments are an unknowingly wasteful family, but with the help of the Green Crusaders they are put on a greener path.  It was a fun quick read, almost storyboard in fashion, I could totally see this being made into a Saturday morning cartoon! Actually better yet a series of commercials geared towards kids.  Oh I’ll hush what do I know of writing books, cartoons or commercials?  As you can see from the sample I pulled the illustrations are absolutely amazing, too!!

The last pages also include a pledge sheet, a checklist, and a fact sheet for kids to commit to going green.  The book is available on CD for viewing on your computer or printing. I am not sure of the CD format, but the standard .pdf format I received was typical scroll thru which is not so kid friendly, IMO.  I would love to see this presented in an e-publication, flip book fashion.

If you’re looking for a green weekend activity for the kids grab up this CD!

$500 from EcoStore USA: Clean and Simple!

EcoStoreUSA is giving away a $500 Gift Card just for using their Lemon Cream Cleanser! Grab some of this awesome cleaner, with no nasty chemicals and a video camera.  Just 30 seconds of cleaning and creativity can land a $500 Visa gift card in your hot little hands… now that’s my kind of cleaning!

Check out all the details on Ecostore USA’s Blog. May as well go over to their Facebook Fan Page and become a fan now, since that’s where you will post your video. Besides, they’re always doing exclusive giveaways for their Fans, so that’s double incentive!

Now, anyone have a video camera I can borrow? Have a great weekend!!

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Green Up your weekend: Book Review & $500 giveaway

So, you’ve had a few days to check out all of the awesome giveaways and sponsors available and I hope you are loving all the prizes as much as I am! There is more to these sponsors then just their products and sponsorships. They’re also doing their own projects or sharing tips to contribute to towards Earth Day and the environment as a whole.

Tara Burner:

Tara Burner of Affordable Mineral Make Up and Go Green Home Makeover, offers a Green Tip everyday to help you grow in your green lifestyle at Green Tip of the Day.

EcoStore USA:

The founder of their company Ecostore New Zealand, Malcolm Rands, is known throughout New Zealand, Australia and Britain as Ecoman! Because he is a true environmentalist who stumbled upon a way of keeping not   only the planet healthier for our families and children as well.Malcolm is here with Ecostore USA for the month of April not only promoting their launch at the MEIJER grocery store chain but Earth Month.  For the next three weeks they have Malcolm on a tour of all five of the states that MEIJER is located in on the ASK ECOMAN tour.

GlassDharma:

GlassDharma is putting their straws where your mouth is. As a small business dedicated to making a difference (without a massive photography, marketing and advertising budget), creativity and generosity were needed. In honor of Earth Month, GlassDharma is giving away 500 straws to those who ask because they are so confident that you will love their line of straws, and help to make GlassDharma a trend that is fabulously functional. GlassDharma is certain that once people use them, they will spread the word…and their straws.

WeeBgreen:

WeeBgreen is going to posting a couple things in recognition of Earth Day this month.

1. They will be attending a “Kids Grow Expo” at the local university campus on April 24th

2. They are also going to start a “vegetable garden” series on weeBgreen.blogspot.com chronicling our garden plans and planting schedule

3. One other thing they’re going to slowly do over time is recycle/upcycle old clothing into new apparel and plush toys (old sweaters become soft play blocks with appliqués, etc).

The Green Path Company:

Green Tip of the Month

This month’s tip has to do with recycling plastic bottles and jugs.  If you are lucky enough to have a recycling program in your city then you probably have a separate recycle trash bin that you toss all your recyclable trash into, including plastic bottles.  Most of us, including me, thought that tossing plastic bottles into the recycle bin insured that these items would be recycled.  Not so!  If the bottles have liquid in them there is a chance they will be removed from the recycling process either during an automated phase or during the manual sorting phase. So the tip this month is to make sure ALL of your plastic bottles and jugs are empty before putting them out to be recycled.  Even if they look empty there can still be residual liquid in them, so remove the caps before tossing them out, this will help insure ALL of the liquid has evaporated before they reach the recycling center and ALL your plastic is recycled.

For additional entries to the Green My World Giveaway: Visit any of the sponsors in the giveaway and let readers know about Earth Day projects, tips or giveaways they are doing. You can build off of one of these tips by getting details from their sites or find your own. Do not simply copy one of above, the entry will be deleted!

DO NOT leave your tip on this post, leave it on the Green My World giveaway post.

All the best!

Jen

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Earth Day Happenings

Earth Day is this month and Eco-Office Gals wants to get as many people as possible on board to grow a little greener.   If you’ve been wanting to, trying to, thinking about growing a little greener there’s no better time to do it then now! We don’t want to make you go it alone either. We have reached out to our cyberspace friends to bring you green tips, projects, inspiration, events and products.

While were at it, how about a HUGE green incentive? Keep up with Eco-Office Gals, share your own tips, tricks, progress, and green finds and one of you will be the winner of an Awesome “Green My World” Giveaway!  This giveaway will green just about every corner of your world — maybe even enough for you to share some green love with your friends and family!

Today, we’ll just get things started.  We’ll give you a chance to check out the sponsors and the prizes, look around their sites and get your creative green juices flowing.  In the coming days and weeks I will continue to share with you some of their green tips, events, projects and announcements.  So, lets get started!

Welcome all our Earth Day Giveaway Sponsors and their generous donations to Green Your World:

EcoStore USA – $25 Gift Certificate
Affordable Mineral Make Up – $25 Gift Certificate
Go Green Home MakeOver – Stainless Steel Water Bottle
Coco-Zen – Fair Trade Chocolate Lips To-Go
Naked Binder – Project Binder Set
Cactus and Ivy – You’re the Balm Gift Set
Sarva Soap – Natural Artisan Soap 8 mini’s of choice
Nurture My Body – $35 Gift Certificate
The Green Path Co. – Men’s & Ladies Organic Cotton T-shirt set (choice of size and artwork)
GreenOfficeStore -  Staple-free Stapler,  Recycled Paper Pencils & Recycle Bin
Mama Goes Green – Waste Free Lunch Kit; Wrap N Mat & Mini RuMe Bag
Tilvee – $25 Gift Certificate
Teatulia – Fair Trade Organic Tea Sampler Set
Glass Dharma – $30 in store coupon
WeeBeGreen – $15 Gift Certificate
SafeMama – Bubble and Bee Lip balm and an 8oz Body Butta
Let’s Be Green Together – 4oz Bag of Soap Nuts

Update! Due to a few new sponsors this giveaway is now worth OVER $400 and counting!

Ok so here’s the deal, as stated above this prize pack is now worth OVER $400.00 in retail value and one person will win it ALL! So, you will need to do a little work! You need to green up your act!  Absolutely, no “Thanks for the great giveaway” comments, they WILL be deleted.  Please don’t copy and paste someone’s comment as your own, be original.  You can enter as many times as you’d like as long as you follow one of the options below. For shipping purposes – US residents only, please.  Leave a separate comment for each entry.  On April 22nd Earth Day, one winner will be picked to win the whole thing! Good Luck!

• Pick a green step that will help the environment. Something new, that you are not already doing. Leave a comment about it, or if you post about it on your own blog, provide a link in your comment so we can check it out!
• Leave a comment about any progress and achievements in your green goals, too.  Let us know how it’s going!
• Leave a unique tip (i.e. I saw someone post on #earthtweet to use olive oil to polish stainless steel appliances)  it’s different, you know?
• Visit the sponsors and let us know how one of their products could help your green up your act.  Leave a link to the product so we can all check it out.
• Send out a tweet about the giveaway & consider using the #earthtweet hashtag – be sure to include a link to it.
• Use other Social Networking avenues to get the word out about the giveaway and let us know which ones you did.
• Add the giveaway button to your sidebar and let us know you did. Here’s the code: <a href=”http://eco-officegals.com/2009/04/08/green-my-world-earth-day-giveaway/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://i311.photobucket.com/albums/kk466/EcoOfficeGals/earthday.png” border=”0″ alt=”Green My World”></a>
• Think a product is so awesome on one of our sponsors sites, you can’t wait to win before you buy? Leave 5 separate entries telling us what you bought from who — we will confirm.

Be sure to sign up for Eco-Office Gals RSS by feed or email.  I’ll be continuing to bring you information, tips and events from our sponsors and may just throw in a few extra ways to enter as we go along!

Grow Green! Good Luck!

UPDATE April 22nd:

Happy Earth Day!!!  It’s 8pm and I have been going through so many AMAZING comments!  It was a tough one to choose from, but there was one person that really came out shining green.  EVERYDAY she gave me readers in depth in site on the sponsoring companies, natural  home cleaner recipes, steps she has implemented, steps she wants to integrate into her green living routine, she faithfully RT’d the giveaway…. all in all I noticed her really stepping up to the challenge for this giveaway over the entire time it ran.  So…. I have made the call Joanna Smith Eco-Office Gals and all of our GREAT sponsors are going to Green Your World!!!!

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Green My World! The Eco-Office Gals Earth Day Giveaway!

I dropped the ball last Monday. I wasn’t feeling so great and I spent the entire day in bed, barely keeping up with email and obviously not posting another great review and giveaway.  However, Flaunt It! Monday is back this morning with another great green company.

EcoStore USA was originally founded in New Zeland fifteen years ago and is now branching it’s way over to the United States. It’s marketing tag line is “No nasty chemicals” they offer green and clean concentrated products at a wallet friendly cost.  Their product line consists of Baby Care, Bath & Body, Hair, Household & Petcare.  For Flaunt It! Monday I decided to go with hair.  Why? If you have met me in person you already know that hair is a challenge for me.  I have curly hair and LOTS of it!  If any of their products were going to be put to the test, it was hair!

The products reviewed (from the site):

Rosemary Orange Shampoo: Combining nature’s best products and aromatherapy Ecostore USA has created a wonderful shampoo that will bring volume and life back to your hair.

Rosemary Orange Conditioner:  Rosemary Orange Conditioner gives body to oily, lifeless hair. This gentle formulation is made with NO NASTY CHEMICALS that could possibly strip hair of essential oils.

Vanilla Shampoo: An alluring combination of eco science and aromatherapy our Vanilla Shampoo is nourishing for the scalp. This is an excellent product for chemically treated hair.

Vanilla Conditioner: Ecostore USA does not put damaging chemicals into their hair products. Using the finest therapeutic grade essential oils, the Vanilla Conditioner will bring life back to chemically treated hair.

They also added 2 bars of soap to the package.  I have only used the LemonGrass Soap so far, but it smells awesome and lasts forever (which would be why I haven’t had the chance to open the second bar)!

I put these products to the test on my family and here are my thoughts:

Scent: Overall the Vanilla products were my favorite scent.  Even my neighbor and Mother-in-law apparently sneaked a sniff when visiting the facilities since they both commented on the Vanilla Shampoo/Conditioners.

Shampoo results: Both shampoos worked equally well.  They lathered up and washed well. My husband suffers from extreme dry scalp and even thought the vanilla may have removed the dry skin from his hair.  A little goes a long way.  I have had these bottles in my house for over a month and both are still a little less then half full.  These are not HUGE bottles so that is pretty impressive with 5 people in the house.

Conditioner results: This is an area you will really make or break it with me.  Conditioner in my hair has to be about the consistency of mayo to get any real results.  Unfortunately, this conditioner was much thinner and it took huge amounts to cover my hair.  It did work and made my hair soft and manageable, but the amounts used made the bottles disappear very quickly.  That said, it DID work well on the rest of the family (since they are not a direct descendant of Carrot Top).  Final decision, if you are blessed with normal hair and not a thick frizzy mop you are definitely good to go with these products!

EcoStore USA has given me a great opportunity to introduce hair products to my family and now they are going to give you an opportunity, too.  One of my readers will win a Shampoo & Conditioner combo, of their choice, to try on their family.

To enter do any (or all) of the following, for each on leave a separate comment for a separate entry! US residents only, please.

• Visit EcoStore USA and comment here on which product you would love to try.
• Blog about this giveaway
• Tweet this giveaway
• Stumble this giveaway
• Use other forms of social networking to spread the word about this giveaway.
• Buy anything from EcoStore USA and comment 5 times that you did! (I will confirm)

One winner will be chosen on Wednesday 2/11/09. Please don’t forget to leave a separate entry and any lame entries that show obvious laziness i.e. “Thanks for the great giveaway” will not be published therefore not counted.  It’s just not fair for the people that do know how to follow simple directions.  Thanks!

Random.org picked comment #76: Jayne I would really like to try the Aloe Vera Conditioner! Thank you so much!

Congrats!

Jen

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Flaunt It! Monday: EcoStore USA