Beyond Just Beauty

This post contains press samples. (Squee!) All expressed opinions (of which there are many) are my own. I've been interested in explo...

Last week, I blabbed on and on about Chagrin Valley's shampoo bars . This week, I'll be talking about their soap bars! I tend to ...

Hi, guys! Here's a post I wrote awhile ago but never got around to posting. Hope you like! Now I must get back to my statsyntaxing (I l...

Hey, look, Tip Tuesday's back! For at least today––don't count on it becoming a frequent feature. But this is just such a perfect T...

It's been ages  since I've done an SS post! It's not that I haven't been using skincare stuff (including 2 as-yet unreviewe...

The combination of Shiseido Ultimate Cleansing Oil , Philosophy Purity Made Simple , Juice Beauty Blemish Clearing Serum , and the occasion...

This was another sample I got from Sephora in their Prep Kit. I'm happy to say I like it much better than the DDF Amplifying Elixir, th...

Okay, backstory: KarlaSugar did a post on cleansing oils a couple months ago. If you don't read her blog, what is wrong with you?!  Sh...

Fresh Soy Cleanser is a very popular product, but also very polarizing, and I wanted to see how it compared to Purity. I knew that no matte...

I'd been wanting to try this cleanser since Christine reviewed it several months ago, but as my skin is only dry in the winter, I had n...

I realize I didn't do a Tip Tuesday on winter skincare, facial cleansing, but I hope you'll forgive my laziness (or, more accuratel...

If I actually had disposable income to speak of, buying a Clarisonic would have been a no-brainer.  Given my rather limited funds, howev...

For a summary of Tip Tuesday, see here.  For part one of diy beauty tips, see here.  And for a video of bunnies wiggling their noses, see he...

Philosophy Purity Made Simple cleanser is one of the most popular cleansers, ever.  I'd never really had any desire to try it, in large ...

Gather round, ye all, for a tale of woe.  A young lass, curly hair and glasses bedecked, was plagued by oily, acne-prone skin.  All she want...

After the debacle that was the  Neutrogena Naturals facial cleanser , I decided to power forward and try a highly rated drugstore gel cleans...

My trusty Mark face wash is about to run out, so I decided to try and find something to replace it that was sulfate- and paraben-free.  Fre...

Having now reviewed the cleansers I currently use, I thought it might be worthwhile to review at least one that I'm no longer using.  I...

A friend asked me what I used as my cleanser(s), and I told her what I'm using now ( oil cleanser ,  honey , and  sea salt ), but I real...

I'd read that MMU can clog pores if not properly removed, and being the super-paranoid acne-prone person I am, I decided to get an oil c...