Hey Beauties!

I got this wonderful product from La Roche-Posay and it's the perfect product for the season. It's skin cancer awareness week in Slovenia, so further more reason for sunscreen mentioning on my blog.

The sun has become extremely dangerous. I remember being younger and not getting burnt, while being on the sun a whole day. I also remember my family was never big on huge SPF factors. Now, that I'm a bit older, all has changed. A few years ago I had a sunscreen with SPF 20 and got really bad sun burns on my body. I realized my SPF needs to be at least 30. The face is even more sensitive and sun burns can make you look a lot older in years to come. Nobody wants that. So today's product is the perfect sunscreen product for everyone who wants to look younger longer, avoid skin cancer and take good care of your overall health.

La Roche-Posay made a product named Anthelios XL ultra-light fluid. It offers SPF 50+ and is especially good for sensitive and sun intolerant skin. It also has UVB + UVA protection, which is very important in looking for sunscreen. It's initially made for the face, but can of course be used on any other problematic areas of the body. It also says that is waterproof and contains no perfumes and no parabens.

It sounds like a perfect product for my sensitive skin and it didn't let me down. I actually planed on buying this one for this summer season and now I got it.

The packaging is really convenient. It's pretty thin, square like and it's not big, so perfect for carrying around. On top it has a little screw on top that prevents the mess of getting the cream all over the packaging. That's a really good design, since the product is really liquid. It's also great because you can control how much product do you want to come out, without wasting it.

I have a pretty sensitive skin and this fluid works amazing on my skin. No irritations, no red spots, nothing. I highly recommend it to anyone with sensitive skin. I love the quick absorbency and the light feeling, but could go without the sheen. It really is an amazing sunscreen.

In Slovenia it costs something around 15€ (which is equal to around 12£ or 20$) and you get 50 ml of product. I think it's a pretty reasonable price for a good face sunscreen. 

I saw on foreign pages that La Roche-Posay also has this product in an original version (which is probably heavier),  in a tinted version and even compact cream (which looks to me like a cream foundation with SPF - boy, would I like to get my hands on this one! :) ). They also have products for the body in the same range. 

Hey Beauties!

This French title is a mouthful. I know I can't reed this properly, so let me explain what I'll be reviewing. It's a lip balm from this Le Couvent Des Minimes brand, which I researched a little and like the philosophy behind their brand. They offer simple skin care products and don't over promise. The ingredients are supposed to be natural and only those that are necessary. I also like their tradition, since the brand has started out of a little French village, where monks had their convent and the place was surrounded with beneficial plants. That's why this cute vintage design of their product and staying true to the original recipes.

I got his lip balm from my fellow blogger and friend Sabina. We saw it in the store, tried and were both obsessed with how good it felt on the lips. I also immediately loved the smell. So she got it for me for my birthday :).

This Smile Lip Balm can be used as a daily treatment  to soften and supple lips or as an intensive treatment to repair damaged and chapped lips.

He're is the ingredients list.

The balm is very liquid, gel like, more as a lip gloss than a balm. It's very greasy and it definitely leaves your lips shiny but not as much as Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. What I really like is that it spreads over the lips very easily, it's very moisturizing and yet not sticky at all. On the lips it just feels very smooth. It's definitely not a lip balm in a proper meaning, it's more of a lip caring lip gloss in my opinion. It's not completely transparent, because it has some slight white to it, but it looks transparent on the lips. The thing that I really like is the fact that it feels moisturizing and stays on for a pretty long time. It smells a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Now, I was never a fan of pear smells, but this one is just amazing. A true sweet pear. Every time I wear it, I want to eat it :). Talking about tastes, it doesn't taste bad at all. Kind of sweet. You can also get it with orange blossom or mint aroma. 

The packaging is a tube. The product you can squeeze out and it's pretty practical. The only problem being, that if you don't use it for a while, once you squeeze it out, out comes only liquid and not gel. I think that's due to the fact that the texture may separate if you don't use it for a while. 

It contains 15 ml and I'm not sure how much it costs, I think it's around 8 €. You need very little of it, so I think it will last me a long time.

If you want a moisturizing like lip gloss treatment for your lips and are crazy about nice smelling, non-sticky products, than this is for you. I highly recommend just trying it in the store, if you find it and you probably won't be able to resist it.

Now, I have to mention this pretty cool hand peeling that Sabina made for me. Yes girl, I'm calling you out! I wanted to get a recipe, but she was a bit mysterious, so I hope she'll need to share it with all of us, including me. I think it includes olive oil, sugar and cocoa powder. Smells divine and feels divine, even on my dry and cracked hands. And how cute is the gift wrap? :) I need the right measurements to recreate it once I use it up. Why I like it? Because when I'm using it, I crave hot cocoa and the olive oil is so subtle that you can only feel it in the end, nothing too greasy. The formula also develops through the time. You apply it and it's more as a peeling and than it starts to become more and more balmy. I love it. Share it Sabina! :P