(In compliance with the new FTC Guildlines, please note that this is a sponsored post.  I was given these products to test and review free of charge.  However, I was not paid for the review and the opinions are my own.)

Been a while since I have done a Flaunt It, for sure. Been busy busy, but there is much to introduce to you so the show must go on! Today I bring you:

Reviyve LLC ethnic cosmetics without all of the harsh chemical additives

It is our goal to provide products that are three fold in nature:

1. High quality yet without all of the harsh chemicals that many of the commercial brands contain
2. Products that actually do what they claim to do
3. Affordable products

Are there other affordable, quality natural skin care products available on the market?  Sure, but how many are manufactured by people as closely involved with the manufacturing process as I am?  How many people selling their products actually use them on a daily basis?  I give my customers quality skin care products because not only do I sell them, I consume them.

First, I will address the fact that I am not a woman of color. Actually, I’m very fair skinned. That doesn’t mean I don’t get dry skin, so I was still an eligible candidate to check out some product.

Michelle sent a wide variety of samples to check out, including; Organic Shea Butter Balm – Lemon, Avocado Cream, Cocoa Butter Cream – Exotic Almond, Hemp Lotion – Eucalyptus Citriadora, Hemp Lotion – Peach, Organic Green Tea and Face Cleanser, Moisturizing Sugar Butter Scrub – Rosemary Mint and Peppermint Goat’s Milk Lotion.

I particularly love the Avocado Cream and the Organic Shea Butter Balm – Lemon, but it was interesting to try many new ingredients like goats milk and this had been my first time trying hemp lotion. I appreciate that Michelle works hard to bring her clients natural ingredients for their specific skin types and takes the time to produce natural products for her customers. Additionally, she works hard to make skin care products that really work for ethnic skin types rather then just claiming to with no real results.

During a time when small batch cosmetics companies are  are being put to the test with the recently introduced Safe Cosmetics Act, it’s important that we are aware of companies like Reviyve LLC and we not only buy from them, but we support them!

Reviyve LLC is giving one of our readers the chance to try their Whipped Shea Cream to enter do any or all of the following:

• Visit Reviyve LLC and comment here on which product you would love to try
• Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post.
• Follow @ecoofficegals or @Reviyve and comment that you did.
• ReTweet this giveaway and link to it below.
• Stumble this giveaway
• Use other forms of social networking to spread the word about this giveaway.
• Subscribe to my feed to stay up to date with the latest from Eco-Office Gals.
• Can’t wait to win? Buy anything from Reviyve LLC and comment 5 times that you did! (I will confirm)

The deadline for entering is Wednesday 8/4/10 at 8pm EST at which time one winner will be randomly chosen.  Please don’t forget to leave a separate entry and any entries that show obvious laziness i.e. a simple “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. US and Canadian residents only. Thanks!

And the Winner is…

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Flaunt It! Monday: Reviyve LLC

Happy Monday Morning!  Hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready to get the new week started!

So, let’s get to some fun green stuff! I have another great company for you this morning. Tilvee: Eco Ethical Skin Care creates facial, bath and body products that are safe for you and the environment:

Our Commitment (from the site)

* To produce fresh, innovative, nutrient rich skin care products without the use of synthetic fragrances, harsh preservatives and ANY potentially harmful ingredient.
* To educate our customers about ingredients used in the skin care industry so they can make healthy decisions.
* To be on the forefront of research and efficacy of naturally sourced ingredients.
* To be committed to green business practices.

Tilvee also takes a great approach towards making sure their products meet healthy and safe standards, and also their business as a whole.  They have a great Green Business Practices plan in place that covers every area of their business; paper, shipping, packaging, even their building materials. Additionally, I love their site design.  It’s visually pleasing and easy to navigate.

So, I got to try out their Acai Pomegranate Rejuvenating Masque: (from site)

Unique dry masque formula rich Acai & Pomegranate that gently purifies & instantly softens.

WHAT IS IT:
Our Acai Pomegranate Rejuvenating Masque is an innovative dry masque formula that purifies, instantly softens and boosts the skin’s radiance. Pomegranate and Acai deliver powerful antioxidants to fight free radical damage and aging. Rhassoul clay detoxifies, improves tone, texture and elasticity. Bamboo gently exfoliates to reveal smoother skin.

I loved this masque! Be forwarned that it will make a bit of a purple red mess and temporarily turns your finger nails a little purple. I guess it’s really no different then if you were eating a Pomegranate. However, the result is insanly soft skin with a kind of tingling feeling.  I just mixed it with a very small amount of water, but I will be trying their Cranberry & Honey recipe soon! I also got my husband to join in the mini-makeover and it really calmed red flakiness he suffers from. While we were at it I slapped some on my mother-in-law (no, not literally) the next morning and she was very happy with how clean and smooth her face felt. All of us were very happy with this Masque!

Want to try some of this great product? Then get your entries in below! Tilvee will be giving one of my readers a full size Acai Pomegranate Rejuvenating Masque! Do as many of the below as you wish and leave a separate comment for each one.

• Visit Tilvee and comment here on which product you would love to try
• Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post.
• Tweet this giveaway
• Stumble this giveaway
• Use other forms of social networking to spread the word about this giveaway.
• Subscribe to my feed to stay up to date with the latest from Eco-Office Gals.
• Buy anything from Tilvee and comment 5 times that you did! (I will confirm)

One winner will be chosen on Wednesday 2/25/09. Please don’t forget to leave a separate entry and any entries that show obvious laziness i.e. a simple “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. US residents only. Thanks!

Jen

Random.org picked commenter 168. Congrats!

Becky

I would love to try the Tea Tree Facial Cleansing Bar.

Thanks!

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Flaunt It! Monday: Tilvee

Happy Monday! Let jump right in and strut some stuff! Faerie Made Soaps is our company for the week. A little background from the site:

Faerie Made® is a woman owned business located in Asheville, North Carolina creating quality artisan soaps and fine skin care products from natural ingredients.

The mission of Faerie Made is simple: to provide high quality natural artisan soaps and body care products as we support other small businesses on the local and global scale while walking as gently as possible upon the earth.

Located in the mountains of North Carolina, our handmade soap, fair trade shea butter products, hemp lip balm, body care products, and products for skin care are made from natural ingredients in small batches.

Faerie Made sent over their sample pack so I could try several of their products including:

.10 oz facial elixir, a .25 oz sample each of our toners (rose and neroli), one each of our facial masques (Glacial clay and rose argiletz) and one half ounce sample each of our soaps we recommend for face (lavender citrus, oatmeal honey, and sea spa).

Tina was also awesome enough to add a sample of her Muscle Rub after listening to me whine and cry about my sciatica.

So, what did I think of the products?

I’ll start with my first round of mini-makeover, I needed to take a new picture for a blog I will be guest writing for, many of you have complimented on that picture and I will say my skin looks pretty dang good! That day I used the Rose Masque, Oatmeal Honey Soap, Neroli Toner and the Facial Elixir.  I’m going to start with the Facial Elixir I fell in love the first time I applied it. Just two little drops covered and made my face feel silky smooth and it smells really great! I will say that although the Rose Masque did a great job, I didn’t care for the smell of it; a strong clay/dirt smell, waiting for it to dry up so I could wash it off was a bit of a struggle. The toner is very light scented, more my style and the soap was great.

The second round included the Glacial Milk Masque, Sea Spa Soap, Rose Toner and Facial Elixir. This was my favorite combo of the two.  The hubby and I both participated in this makeover.  He has terribly dry skin and I saw a massive improvement the next morning.  The Glacial Milk Masque had a much lighter scent, seemed to dry quicker and I really liked the Sea Spa Soap. Elixir still reigned as the favorite and, unfortunately we drained the sample that day.

Currently I am using the last soap, Lavender Citrus, which I like and the toners.  The muscle rub also has a non-medicinal scent, covers well and is not greasy. I can’t attest to the functionality of it yet since my sciatica gets so intense when I get it that meds often don’t help.  It’s gone now, but who knows what combination of anything actually did the trick!

Tina is giving one reader a full size of my favorite the Facial Elixir! To enter do any (or all) of the following, for each one leave a separate comment for a separate entry! US residents only, please.

* Visit Faerie Made 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 Faerie Made and comment 5 times that you did! (I will confirm)

One winner will be chosen on Wednesday 2/18/09. 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 commenter #15! Congrats, Sheila!

Good Luck,
Jen

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Flaunt It! Monday: Faerie Made

Monday morning once again! Last week was a crazy week of monsoon rains. The rest of the country had some freak weather, too and I hope this post finds all of you safe and warm.

Another week of pampering your winter skin.  This time by Nurture My Body. Their products are 100% biodegradable, cruelty-free, and do not contain harmful synthetic fragrance oils, preservatives, petroleum products, FD&C colorants and dyes, parabens, phthalates, or other toxic chemicals.  Additionally, they come to us with an endless list of credentials to make sure you are using a safe and eco-friendly product!

This company is run by a husband and wife team Patty & Rich.  I met Rich on Twitter and he has become a fun Twitterbud on my follower list!!

All my products came in a very timely manner.  Since I had such an issue deciding from all the great products I left it in Rich’s hands.  The following are the site descriptions of the products that were sent to me (feel free to click the links for the full description):

Herbal Body Wash

Organic Herbal Body Wash blend contains essential oils of red mandarin for its ability to balance your skin, its natural antioxidants that help protect your skin, cedar atlas for its grounding and soothing effect on irritated skin, and rosemary verbenone to improve your circulation.

Citrus Hand and Body Lotion

Our Organic Citrus Hand and Body Lotion blend contains essential oils of bergamot for its relaxing quality and ability to care for oily skin, white grapefruit for its ability to help tone the skin tissue, and lavender for its quality to penetrate quickly while rejuvenating the skin and relaxing the mind.

Lavender Toner

Our Organic Lavender Toner contains Certified Organic lavender for its anti-inflammatory properties that instantly remove redness and irritation. It is ideal for sensitive skin and skin prone to dryness; it also enhances the regeneration of your skin cells.

I will immediately start with a slight repeat from last week.  There is really something to be said for natural fragrance.  It is such a HUGE difference from the many companies out there that throw a bunch of junk together to try to make something smell like the real thing!

The Citrus lotion is wonderful! Smells like I rubbed down with raw fruit, seriously!!  It’s not a thick lotion, but it covers well and my skin feels very soft this morning.

The Herbal wash is very sudzy. I have mentioned in a past posts my issue with natural cleaners and soaps. I would find that any products that I don’t want to soap up do and those I do… don’t.  But this past my test, a little bit want a long way! Thumbs up!

The lavender toner, I had to read up on this one since I had never used toner before.  Just spray on before applying your face creme.  So, I did and applied last week’s face creme on top.  It was the flowery scent with the lavender again, not my favorite, but since I am continuing to see great results from last week I am willing to add this to my regimen to battle the crease.

Once again some really great products and I LOVE the blue bottles that can be reused once you empty the original contents.

Rich and Patty are offering one  of my readers a wonderful Gift Box valued at over $50.00. Check out Nurture My Body and look around their products, come back here and tell me what you’d pamper yourself with for an entry.  Tweet or stumble this post for an extra entry.  If you haven’t subscribed to my feed be sure to do so for another entry.  Make sure to put each thing you do in a separate comment for a separate entry! A winner will be picked Wednesday Dec. 17.  Good Luck!

Here are your random numbers:

18

Timestamp: 2008-12-18 02:09:15 UTC

1. Danielle E Says:
   December 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pm I’d try the Citrus Body Wash. It sounds wonderful.

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Flaunt It Monday! Nurture My Body

Good Monday morning! We have another company to flaunt to you!  Organically Happy is another great company I found on twitter. Organically Happy is an organic boutique style site that searches for product lines that meet their organic and chemical free requirements. They bring you upscale trendiness with the assurance that the products have been thoroughly researched! Their product line includes bath and body, face care, fashion and more. The site is very pretty and their is so much to choose from!

So, the customer service.  Shame on you FedEx!  Yah, some FedEx guy is walking around with the Chocolate face mask, anti-aging balm & lip-balm I was supposed to try.  It never made it to my hot little hands… and I was so looking forward to tasting trying that chocolate face mask! So, Debra was very quick to send my second delivery which came in Saturday night… the delivery guy looked awful young, but I didn’t get close enough to see if I could smell spa products! Customer service for FedEx BAD… for Organically Happy Very Good!

Round two was a full size Trevarno organic rose & jojoba moisturizer.  A description from the site:

A luxurious organic cream moisturizer to nourish, condition and protect the skin. Roses are used for their rejuvenating and healing effect on the skin and anti-inflammatory properties. This moisturiser is slightly heavier in consistency than the Day Cream and is particularly suitable for dry skin types and more mature skin protecting the skin during harsh weather conditions.

Also available with SPF 15, see Suncare menu for details.

Contains pure distilled Organic Rose Flower Water blended with Organic Damascena Roses in Jojoba Oil, Organic Calendula in Olive Oil, Sesame with Carrot Oil, Beeswax, Cocoa Butter, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Vitamin E and Rose Essential Oil.

All Trevarno products are certified by Organic Farmers and Growers, one of the UK’s largest organic certification bodies.

So, my thoughts… this creme is so thick and creamy! And one application lasts all day.  I have this little crease under my left eye, I guess it’s the way I sleep… anyway I swear it has faded some in just two days!  My mother-in-law tried some and she loves it, too.  I told her I would split the bottle up with her so she can use it.  I will say this though, if you consider buying this make sure you love roses.  You will smell like roses, real roses not some chemical imitation fragrance.  It was a little overwhelming on the first application.  I have a super sensitive sniffer and since I’m not much for flowery scents I initially thought this was not going to work for me.  I was thinking about giving my Mother in law the whole bottle.  However, I put some more on that night and my sniffer adjusted to it much better.  My ultimate seller was the next morning; it’s cold and the heaters dry my face out so bad!  When I woke up yesterday morning and didn’t feel like my skin was going to crack apart and fall off my face… then my faded crease discovery! YEAH! I LOVE IT!

So, guess what! You can smell like roses, too! One of my readers will win this great face creme to try. Check out Organically Happy and look around at their products, come back here and tell me what you’d put on your wish list for an entry.  Tweet or stumble this post for an extra entry.  If you haven’t subscribed to my feed be sure to do so for another entry.  Make sure to put each thing you do in a separate comment for a separate entry! A winner will be picked Wednesday Dec. 10.  Good Luck!

UPDATE: Use coupon code supergreen for 15% off.

This giveaway is for US residents only.  Since cost is incurred by the donor company, I cannot ask them to ship outside of the United States.

Here are your random numbers:

5

Timestamp: 2008-12-11 03:35:01 UTC

Congrats, Lori!

Grow Green!
Jen

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Flaunt It! Monday: Organically Happy