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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    lgt wrote:
    20 euro would be 10 bucks..

    The Body Shop products are not that cheap when compared to other brands in Europe.

    I just bought their shampoo and conditioners and spent just less than £10, when at the supermarket I could have bought the same for less than £5 (Dove range), for instance.
    No 20euro is about $28 maybe.
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  • lgt
    lgt Posts: 720
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    No 20euro is about $28 maybe.

    Of course - I did the rough € into £ conversion, which is what I normally do... 20€ is just a little over £10.

    I forget I live in non-Euroland right now!
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    I just got some Skin Sin from Lush.
    It's gorgeous...cherry and vanilla....
    Mmmmm...I smell like a cupcake!
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    That reminds me of a creme I like from Weleda called Skin Food...yummy.
    You can get it at the health food market.
    Also jojoba oil is great..I smother it around my eyes before I go to sleep.
    And a product from MAC called Fix+. It is a little spritzer of water and vitamins that smells like Japanese succhi flowers...very clean.
    It is great for setting makeup or just to feel nice.
    lol...I sprayed it on nypj and xavier at Lolla....:)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    JaneNY wrote:
    I've used them a couple days over the use by date, but not more than 2 or 3. I wouldn't worry about being just 1 day over.

    Yeah, I did forget all about it. :o (and this thread actually! :o ) So now I guess I'll be throwing out. :(

    Although it says use by the 10/10/07 and I just had a sniff of it from the fridge and it still looks okay and smells ok. I wonder???? :o
    JaneNY wrote:
    I wouldn't like the idea of paraffin oil - isn't that a petroleum product?

    The Bio Oil lists Paraffinum Liquidum ( Mineral Oil ) as the first ingredient, so that would be the main ingredient I guess. Quick google search and I think that yes Mineral oil is a petroleum by product. :eek: Hence me not putting it on my face as yet.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    decides2dream wrote:
    a coworker just shared this in an e-mail b/c a manager from our group who is now on a two year stint in london will be back in town next week so they are planning a 'ladies night' out. i thought...wow...what a cool idea:


    http://beautybar.com/main.html
    martinis and manicures....genius! :D


    Oooh!! :D I wanna go there!! :)

    I love the way they've done the web page with that 50s style beauty parlor look! :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    lgt wrote:
    hey Jeanie,

    that was me, but NO! the main ingredient is NOT paraffin!!!

    No way, I'd buy it in the first place.

    It's Purcellin Oil - which is synthetic, that is created ad hoc in a laboratory, but not petroleum based... yikes!

    So, you can use it w/ no worries.


    I'm so confused now lgt. :confused: I've hunted out the packet and it says main ingredient Parafinnum Liquidum (Mineral Oil) which after checking on google is a petroleum by product. So maybe the stuff you have there is different? I'm not sure I want to use this stuff. I keep looking at it but never getting brave enough to try it. I think I might just look at it some more. :o
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    lgt wrote:
    Everything is always more expensive here than in the States!

    Their body butter is more than £10 now, I think... way too expensive for an intensive moisturiser.

    I'm digging the products from Boots right now. Cheap and as effective as cosmetics can be.

    Their No 7 range is very popular right now, as it was featured on a TV documentary on cosmetics as the best anti-ageing serum after various tests from independent dermatologists.


    MAN I LOVE BOOTS No 7 eye make up remover!!! That stuff is BRILLIANT!
    We can't get it here, so every time someone I know is going over to London I always ask them to pick me up 1/2 a dozen bottles of it! :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    TrixieCat wrote:
    ......
    And a product from MAC called Fix+. It is a little spritzer of water and vitamins that smells like Japanese succhi flowers...very clean.
    It is great for setting makeup or just to feel nice.
    lol...I sprayed it on nypj and xavier at Lolla....:)


    :D:D:D
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Jeanie wrote:
    MAN I LOVE BOOTS No 7 eye make up remover!!! That stuff is BRILLIANT!
    We can't get it here, so every time someone I know is going over to London I always ask them to pick me up 1/2 a dozen bottles of it! :)

    that's funny I was just looking for eye makeup remover - I don't expect Boots can be obtained in North America either. I had a lancome sample but its almost used up, and I was thinking I'd get some from MAC the next time I'm in Ottawa.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    JaneNY wrote:
    that's funny I was just looking for eye makeup remover - I don't expect Boots can be obtained in North America either. I had a lancome sample but its almost used up, and I was thinking I'd get some from MAC the next time I'm in Ottawa.


    I should probably qualify that and say that I find Estee Lauder's Eye Make Remover excellent also but it's prohibitively expensive. Well I think it's a bit rich for something that is just to get rid of make up, if that makes sense? So it's worked out so far that I've been able to get the cheaper Boots No 7 when people have been going over and in between times when I run out I get Estee Lauder and sometimes Clinique, which is ok too. :)

    I've not tried MAC but I bet Trix would know if it's good stuff. :D She LOVES MAC!! :D
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Jeanie wrote:
    I should probably qualify that and say that I find Estee Lauder's Eye Make Remover excellent also but it's prohibitively expensive. Well I think it's a bit rich for something that is just to get rid of make up, if that makes sense? So it's worked out so far that I've been able to get the cheaper Boots No 7 when people have been going over and in between times when I run out I get Estee Lauder and sometimes Clinique, which is ok too. :)

    I've not tried MAC but I bet Trix would know if it's good stuff. :D She LOVES MAC!! :D
    Did someone say Trix??? :p
    Love it.
    Ok, so I got a new treatment that I LOVE. A glycolic treatment. My skin looks amazing. :)
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  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    my favorite body moisturizer is Red Fox Tub O' Butter, it smells so good..it is mainly petroleum jelly with coca butter,
    when I rub it on my skin has that natural glow and at the end of the day, my skin stilll looks soft and supple and in the winter my skin never feels tight n itchy...

    its great
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Did someone say Trix??? :p
    Love it.
    Ok, so I got a new treatment that I LOVE. A glycolic treatment. My skin looks amazing. :)


    :D LMAO!! Have you been lurking lovely? ;)

    Was this treatment with a beautician or beauty therapist or a do it at home kit? :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    MyHandsBound wrote:
    my favorite body moisturizer is Red Fox Tub O' Butter, it smells so good..it is mainly petroleum jelly with coca butter,
    when I rub it on my skin has that natural glow and at the end of the day, my skin stilll looks soft and supple and in the winter my skin never feels tight n itchy...

    its great

    I just went out and splurged on a whole jar of that Sympathy for Skin from Lush with the bananas in it. I hope my skin never gets sick of it, it's sooooo yummy and I can't believe what it does to the texture. I like it better than the Body Shop Shea butter lotion I've been using and that's saying a lot. :)
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  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    Jeanie wrote:
    I just went out and splurged on a whole jar of that Sympathy for Skin from Lush with the bananas in it. I hope my skin never gets sick of it, it's sooooo yummy and I can't believe what it does to the texture. I like it better than the Body Shop Shea butter lotion I've been using and that's saying a lot. :)

    I've never tried lush products, although I've been to their website....I don't know of any store near by that sells it either...I hear you ladies talk about it so much :) I may just try it on day....
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Linda wrote:
    Hi chad, how are you doing :)? ( havent ordered a copy, YET....)
    let this thread inspire you for some poems....;)

    Good idea
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    MyHandsBound wrote:
    I've never tried lush products, although I've been to their website....I don't know of any store near by that sells it either...I hear you ladies talk about it so much :) I may just try it on day....


    Well I'm only recently coverted! :D

    Thanks to the gals around here. And I have to say it's been almost like a little epiphany for me! :D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    chadwick wrote:
    Good idea
    Let the games...begin
    Looks around

    :) No games here chaddles.

    Just an exchange of ideas. :)
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Jeanie wrote:
    :) No games here chaddles.

    Just an exchange of ideas. :)

    haha, dang it.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
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