Things I Love Thursday

Just a couple things that I have been loving this week.

My hubby teaching Bub to mow the grass on the riding mower.

This is a big deal because Daddy doesn’t just let anyone mow his grass.

Even got on the mower to show him how to do straight lines!

Bub had a blast.

This little bluebird that keeps coming around everyday.

Isn’t he so cute.

As far as products I have a couple food/drink and a couple bath/cleansers:

First the yummy stuff

I don’t know why but I have been on a chocolate milk kick and this almond breeze chocolate milk from blue diamond is sooooo stinkin’ good.

Leesha Vlogs bought this Biscoff Cookie Spread while she was pregnant and was raving about it so when I finally found it at Tarjay I bought some and OMG sooo good. I like to eat it with apples or on cinnamon raisin toast or…who am I kidding I eat it on a spoon right out of the jar. If you have not tried it you need to go get you some.

Okay now for the rub a dub dub stuff:

This daily grind coffee scrub from Perfectly Posh is soo good. I have talked about it before. It smells like a mocha coffee and leaves your skin feeling awesome. Plus no residue in the shower that will make you break your neck.  

My sis-n-law sells it so click the link in the side bar if you are interested.

I ran out of my all time favorite St. Ives Oatmeal and Shea butter body wash so I decided to try something new and bought the Tree Hut Shea moisturizing body wash. I know not much of a stretch from what I was using but I really like it. The scent is very nice and sweet but not overpowering and my sensitive skin has had no issues with it.

Last but not least I have been using these two Peter Thomas Roth cleansers. I know what is up with you and changing cleansers, but I think this might be a keeper fingers crossed.

I received it as a sample when I purchased something at Ulta like back in March. I just threw it in my cabinet and did not give it a second thought til I ran out of cleanser and thought why not. Well I am glad I did. This stuff makes my skin feel amazing and it is starting to really help the texture of my skin as well any unruly little blemishes that want to rear their ugly head.

I use the anti aging cleansing gel in the morning and the anti aging buffing beads at night. It has kind of a peach smell so if you hate peach you might not like it but I love it and it does not dry out my skin. So check it out if you are looking for a cleanser.

Have a lovely Thursday!

More Bzz-Paula's Choice Clear Line Comparison & First Impression

You already know I love the 2% BHA liquid that I received in March from Bzz Agent if not you can read about it here.

So much so I ordered their new Resist 2% BHA.

But before I could try it Bzz Agent sent me a new invitation to try Paula’s Choice Clear skin clearing line for acne prone skin for free.

I just received the products day before yesterday and as you know I had been using the Proactiv + with my Paula’s Choice 2% BHA which was working good, but I literally just ran out of the  cleanser for that line so this was perfect timing.

I am going to do a little comparison here just so you know what the difference is in both of these lines:

Proactiv + has a Skin Smoothing Exfoliator which contains 2.5% Benzoyl Peroxide, a Pore Targeting Treatment which contains 2.5 % Benzoyl Peroxide & a Complexion Perfecting Hydrator which contains .5% Salicylic Acid.  

Paula’s Choice CLEAR line has a Pore Nourishing Cleanser with no active acne fighting ingredient that I can see, a Anti Redness Exfoliating Solution which contains 2% Salicylic Acid & a Daily Skin Clearing Treatment that comes in 2.5% Benzoyl Peroxide for the regular version and 5% for the extra strength.

So they are kinda comparable because they both use benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid in their lines but not really in the same way if that makes sense.

Now here is my first impression which I will update in a few weeks once I have given the product a fair amount of use:

The pore normalizing cleanser was just a normal cleanser to me and I had no irritation. The anti-redness exfoliator was kind of just like the 2% BHA liquid which was nice

but…

I accidently started with the extra strength skin clearing treatment and it did not like my skin at all. My skin was immediately itchy and dry from it↓

Which I found odd since I have used the Proactiv extra strength lotion (↓) for years before trying Proactiv + and it contains 7% Benzoyl Peroxide and I never had that issue?? So not sure why that happened…

I switched to the Paula’s Choice regular strength skin clearing treatment with only 2.5% benzoyl peroxide and added my Derma-e refining vitamin A crème and did not have the dry, itchy issue yesterday so if you have sensitive skin I would not get the extra strength version from the Paula’s Choice Clear line to start!

Me & Bub will be testing this product out so I will keep you posted in the coming weeks!!