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Review: 100% Pure Organic Rose Skincare Line

Hello beauties! Happy New Year! I don’t know about you but I am in the midst of reorganizing, decluttering, and re-energizing this week. I may do a series in which I declutter my makeup collection soon! Today, I have a review for you. I’ve been trying out the 100% Pure Organic Rose Water Sensitive Skin […] Read more…

DIY Rose Petal Soap

Earlier today I posted my book review of Herbal Goddess and mentioned I tried one of the skincare recipes. Well I really didn’t follow the recipe exactly but it inspired me to create something similar with stuff I just had sitting in my closet. I don’t even use bar soap hardly ever but it was a […] Read more…

Review: Andalou Naturals 1000 Roses Collection

As the weather gets cooler (we’ve had snow here already in Vermont!), my skin calls for something a little different than the lightweight summer moisturizers. Lately I’ve been testing out the Andalou Naturals 1000 Roses® Beautiful Day Cream, Night Cream, Rosewater Mask, and Eye Revive Contour Gel – which I’ll be reviewing here today. I don’t know about […] Read more…

Korres Lip Butter Review

If there is one thing I’ll never tire of / never have enough of its lip products. They’ve been an obsession since my first strawberry chapstick at age three or four (I made a real mess of it at that age, by the way. Tried to color on the wall with it if I remember correctly). Lately, […] Read more…

Sweet Violet Bride Issue 4 Summer/Fall 2015

Bonjour beauties! It’s been a few weeks since I last posted, but I needed a break from posting on both blogs I run. I got completely worn out while completing the last issue of Sweet Violet Bride and since I hadn’t really taken a break in like three years, I figured it was time. My […] Read more…

DIY Wild Rose Tonic… Sort of

Like all good adventures, this one started at my desk, as I was reading through one of my favorite books in the world, The Complete Medicinal Herbal by Penelope Ody. The page on roses has long been one of my favorites, and upon remembering I’d seen some wild roses along the road here in rural […] Read more…