STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

I regularly use Cetaphil to clean my face, and a ton of Neutrogena products (sesame body oil, lotion, foot cream, hand cream, Rainbath, deep conditioner, anti-itch lotion, lip gloss).

yay, love the st. ives apricot scrub.

• rimmel makeup -- esp. the lip vinyl.  it's the one thing i will break my walmart boycott for.


• kiss my face vitamin a&e moisturizer


• neutrogena oil free sunblock


• coppertone endless summer self tanner for body and face --  i use the face every other day and it keeps me from looking like a corpse in the winter


• noxzema daily exfoliating face wash -- light exfoliant, use it on the days i don't use the st. ives

Ditto on the Queen Helene Mint Julep mask...I've found ti to do exactly the same thing as the Origins Clear Improvement mask except it smells better.

I just tried the Olay Quench body moisturizer and I swear my legs are softer, plus they have a subtle shimmer element too in it.

I drown my hair in Brilliant Brunette shampoo, conditioner, and the shine blam thing.

Vitamin A&D ointment is the one thing that moisturizes better than anything and repaired chapped, dry skin fast. Like Vasleine petroleum jelly but even better.

The Clean and Clear oil-absorbing sheets are fun! and blue! and they work (unlike everything else in that line)!

Neutrogena Skin Smoothing lotion has helped out a lot with the bumps on my arms, as has Vaseline Renew and Protect lotion.

Neutrogena sunblock is great, especially this ultra light dry formula they have that doesn't make you feel sticky at all when you put it on.

Oh...and Shoprite makes the only cotton balls I will use. I make my family ship them out from New York.

Vaseline

Baby oil gel

Oil of Olay facial cloths

St. Ives scrub

i think most of mine are repeats.

queen helene's mint julep mask

cetaphil face moisturizer

moisturel dry skin body moisturizer

neutrogena body oil

My drugstore Must-Have's:

• Vaseline (great for lips or overnight moisturizing)


• Baby Oil (I like it for eye make-up removal and softening on occasion)


• Nature's Gate Moisturizing Lotion with Papaya (I used to use Eucerin because it was the only lotion that would moisturize, but Eucerin is greasy and doesn't smell good; the Nature's Gate smells amazing and is the best at moisturizing - haven't found better at a department store).  PS I HATE the herbal lotion from Nature's Gate - it's disgusting.


• I generally find that drugstore mascara (esp. Loreal) is just as good, if not better in some cases, as department store brands.


• Ocean Potion and Bullfrog-specifically the sport SPF 36 gel spray on- sunscreens are the best on the market.  I have tried every (DDF, Kiehl's, BioMaple, Peter Thomas Roth, and others for sure) expensive sunscreen as well as drugstore brands (esp. Neutrogena products, I hate Coppertone and the like) and think these are the best there is.  Here is why: Ocean Potion comes in SPF's as high as 50, is available in spray on, smells like orange creamsicles but only when you apply - the scent fades FAST, it absorbs like a champ - perfectly smooth with no white or residue or greasiness, it works forever - you can literally put SPF50 on fair skin and hang out in the Caribbean all day without re-applying - I can't say that about other high SPF's (like Neutrogena's SPF45 which has little staying power).  Bullfrog SPF 36 spray on gel works so amazing; you can spray it on without having to rub it in and it leaves no residue, stickiness, or white layer.  It lasts so long and is the least messiest to apply.  The only caveat is the smell, but that fades fast. 


• John Frieda's Ocean Waves Texturizing Spray - So cheap and so good for soft curls