And Then I Fell in Love - Burt's Bees Intense Hydration Face Care: Day 4 November 4, 2012

And Then I Fell in Love

Burt's Bees Intense Hydration Face Care: Day 4 November 4, 2012

Day 1
I washed my face with Burt's Bees Intense Hydration Cream Cleanser the way I normally wash my face with Philosophy skin care products; in the shower before bed. I stopped washing my face twice a day for two reasons, first, my skin is so very dry, why dry it any more? Secondly, I normally don't wear any make-up. When one has limited energy, one limits the things they do, right? Think back to when you last were sicker than a dog (sorry Toby), were you up to washing your face and putting on make-up? Most of the time, I'm not either. I would rather use my limited energy in other ways, I'm sure you understand.

So I washed my face, that first evening. Now I have to say I love the Philosophy products, except for the price. I have noticed lately, that maybe my skin is feeling tighter lately. I have found one of the causes of this, but I'll blog about that later. I put a bit of the Cream Cleanser on my fingertips, and lightly washed my face and then rinsed. While rinsing, I could tell that Burt's original ingredient was still being used, but probably not from his original bees. After my shower, I put on the Night Cream. I am still loving the smell of these products. Not a strong smell, just a soft, fresh smell that doesn't last very long, but nice while it does. Again, my facial skin felt like it had received something it has been missing, I rubbed the leftovers each time onto my hands, and they felt happy too. Ladies, don't forget to make your hands happy, otherwise they will scream your age all over the place. Don't believe me? You older ladies, put your hands up to your face while looking in the mirror.

The next day, I wondered if I would feel more moisturized if I washed both morning and night. Nope. Again, more about why later.

Then yesterday, I fell in love! I used the Burt's Bees Intense Hydration Treatment Mask. After washing my face, I slathered some on. The instructions say to leave on for 5-10 minutes, gently tissue off, then massage the remaining into your skin. I had visions of the 'old days', you know, when your great-grandma, (or for some of us, your grandma) slathered a thick layer cold cream all over their face for their beauty treatment. But before I even left the bathroom, my skin had sucked it all off of my face! I could still practically hear the sucking sounds followed with requests for more please!? So I slathered some more on. My face felt so happy that it caused happy, smiley dreams.

The next morning, my skin felt soft and supple, not in the least greasy! The instructions say to do this 1-2 times a week. I wonder if I'll be able to go that long?

Meet my new friend!

Intense Hydration Treatment Mask

Meet the moisture makeover.

99% Natural

$18.00

Quantity: 

Give your skin the gift of hydration it dearly deserves. Our replenishing treatment mask is clinically proven to intensely hydrate skin and also helps increase skin’s ability to retain moisture. So you’re skin will possess softness and suppleness like never before.

• Intensely hydrates dry skin
• Helps reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
• Enhanced with probiotic technology
• Dermatologist Tested and Noncomedogenic

Featured Ingredient

Clary Sage — Clary Sage thrives in its harsh Mediterranean environment due to its ability to trap and retain moisture. This remarkable botanical inspired Burt’s Bees Intense Hydration, our natural ode to soft, supple skin.

Ingredients: aqua (water, eau), ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, glycerin, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, glyceryl stearate, parfum (fragrance)*, propanediol, salvia sclarea (clary) extract, lactobacillus, astrocaryum tucuma seed butter, trichilia emetica seed butter, cera alba (beeswax, cire d'abeille), citrus aurantium amara (bitter orange) peel, polymnia sonchifolia root juice, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed wax, lecithin, alpha-glucan oligosaccharide, maltodextrin, tocopherol, xanthan gum, glycine soja (soybean) oil, stearic acid, sodium PCA, zinc PCA, potassium stearate, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, phenoxyethanol, amyl cinnamal, eugenol, hydroxycitronellal, linalool. *natural fragrance

Diaper Malfunction

Hi, I'm Jonnie, a 50 year old disabled woman with a service dog (SD) named Toby. He's the red dog you see in my photos, since I've encouraged his curiosity, and worked with him scent finding things (especially my phone and TV remote!) you will usually see him sniffing something in my pics. Take a bow Toby.

Ouch, get off my foot please! Good dog. I have a muscle movement disorder, aka chorea, aka hyperflexia (A state of excessive response to stimuli.) or spastic movements, tonic-clonic seizures, etc. Lots of different names, but basically I have a problem controlling my muscles, sometimes they relax at inappropriate times, but mostly the respond abnormally. The person flailing around looking like I'm having a seizure, that's me. It's kinda painful and really exhausting, like dancing without stop for many hours, then dance some more. The bad ones, I can't see, everything goes dark, but I can still hear, and I can't talk. Sometimes now I lose consciousness and wake up on the floor.

I'm OK with it all though, because I stand on my faith. I'm a Christian, and my faith is the largest part of my life, I love to talk about my beliefs to people, even people who believe something different than I do. It's great to have a nice conversation about our believes, comparing our common ground and enjoying hearing about the differences. I love to talk to people who share the same beliefs too. I really feel that the world needs lots of compassion, tolerance, empathy, laughter, joy, well I can go on and on, but mostly love is what's needed. I also think it's really important to keep a positive outlook. 

I started a business almost 20 years ago, but as I was able to do less and less, my wonderful husband, Nick stepped in more and more. I had to retire some years ago when the doctor said I wasn't able to work anymore. He runs it by himself now, a huge undertaking, but one he does without ever complaining. I love him deeply. Smile sweetie.

Such a beautiful smile. When I used to go to work, MuttLee went with me every day. If he makes it until November 2011, he will be 18 years old. He's had problems with his hips for years now, but it got to the point that he couldn't walk around on the bare floor anymore, so we got a bunch of cheap carpets and laid them about. These are a huge pain to vacuum since a lot of them get sucked up instead of having stuff sucked off. Ut oh... another diaper malfunction. It's ok Mutt, I know you wouldn't if you could help it.

I'll use my new Bissell Little Green Proheat aka My Green Machine. I ordered it off of Amazon, where I do almost all my shopping, since it's hard for me to go out. The reviews were pretty good, and it was the best selling compact carpet cleaner on Amazon. I have a Bissell Proheat full size carpet shampooer, and have for years, but it's been slowly dying. Now the only thing it does is suck, but since I've gotten so much weaker, it's a challenge for me to try to muscle it around, so I'm excited that my Green Machine arrived last night. I felt like I was playing with babushka (Russian nesting) dolls while unpacking, so it was well packed from Amazon! 

Set up was fairly easy except to screw the flex hose storage bracket on was a bit of a challenge for me. I bet other's would find it really easy to put the screw in with a Phillips screw driver. The hose wraps around the base and the flex hose clip just snapped on so that was easy. It also has a Quick Release Cord Wrap, which is really nice. Here is the back of the Green Machine with the hose wrapped around, the cord wrapped up. The Proheat came with two attachments: a tough-stain tool, and a TurboBrush with its own powered brush roll. I used the second.

 I ran into a bit of a difficulty with the water tank, the top is curved, so the bottle won't stay up as it was filling, 

so I finally propped it up on a sponge so it wouldn't slide, and leaned it against the edge of the sink so I could put the Bissell Pet Stain for Compacts which I chose it for a couple of reasons, first of all it 'sustainable design' products that offer benefits for you and the Earth, and also that contain biodegradable detergents and have no phosphates, dyes, optical brighteners or heavy metals and is for pet stains, which I get a lot of. I am very sensitive to chemicals, and had my Epi Pen ready, but I had no reaction at all. It leaves a very nice smell, but isn't at all overwhelming or a cover-up.

 This is everything out of the box:

 Toby of course had to check it out, now that he approves, I can proceed! Since the tank now has the warm water with the pet stain cleaner solution, I plugged the Green Machine in, turned it on and pressed the button on the wand for the solution to come out. Since it was brand new, it took a few moments for it to prime. Then the solution came out at a very nice rate, not too little, not too much. This is just before I started.

I had a bit of a leak, which I consider an opportunity to clean another spot, so this is how much water was left in the tank after the leak (had to re-seat the water bottle), spraying, sucking, and repeat on Mutt's accident. Even taking pics, the whole thing took only a couple of minutes. This saved me a huge amount of effort, energy and time! No wonder that The Bissell Little Grean Machine is the best selling compact carpet cleaner on Amazon! In fact, I even had the energy to clean a spot where a guest spilled a really large soda a while ago. I've tried cleaning it repeatedly by pouring water on it, then pressing cloths on, but it's still sticky enough that it collects dirt. Now if only I could find a good dog diaper that doesn't leak, but in the mean time, I am really happy with this purchase!