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Clean Logic Cucumber Melon Soap Sponge

Clean Logic makes a great Cucumber Melon glycerin soap with a built in sponge. Love it, love it, love it! It smells incredible and the sponge works well for cleaning after dirty jobs like gardening!

I find myself reaching for this one a lot after runs as well. The scent is just perfect for a fresh clean smell. I never thought I would rave about a soap so much, but I truly love this one! The company also makes some other neat bath products, including an exfoliating cloth that I like quite a bit.

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Great Holiday Bath and Beauty Kits

Bath and Body spa kits make great holiday gifts. Just about everyone likes to pamper themselves from time to time, yet they might not want to buy themselves individual products to do so. During the holidays, great home spa kits seem to pop up every where. If you are hitting the stores, look in the beauty isles for fun kits. If shopping online, here are three recommended items:

I adore Bliss spa items, so the Best Of Bliss Kit is high on my personal wish list! This kit contains the best of the best from NY’s hottest spa and contains a bliss bag filled with deluxe trial sizes of lemon+sage body butter, hot salt scrub, high intensity hand cream, triple oxygen energizing mask and the youth as we know it moisture cream. $55 at Beauty.com

Another favorite of mine is Caudalie. The Vinotherapie Spa in the Box Set includes luxurious Crushed Cabernet Scrub, Hand and Nail Cream, Vine Peach Shower Gel, French-Milled Soap and Nourishing Body Lotion. $38.

For a value packed full home spa experience, check out the Borghese Essentially Borghese Holiday Gift Set. This kit offers 7 products from rejuvenating Fango Active Mud for Face and Body to gently cleansing Bagnodi Vita Gentle Foaming Bath Gel for Bath and Shower, to deeply intensive and protective moisturizers for face and body and soothing botanical eye compresses. $45

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Pink Product: Surgeon’s Skin Secret Beeswax Moisturizer

I love, love, love, grapefruit scented products. So it is no surprise that I took a shine to Surgeon’s Skin Secret Beeswax Moisturizer in grapefruit scent!

Packaged in a cute pink and white tube, $1 from each sale goes to Breastcancer.org. The moisturizer is a skin balm made with beeswax and grapefruit extract. The tube provides a good amount, and the twist up nature of it makes it perfect for applying to rough patches of skin without having to make a mess of your hands. It is nice stuff!

Surgeon’s Skin Secret is also available in an unscented version and numerous other scents.

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Philosophy Halloween Bath and Body Set

This is a really cute, and nicely scented Halloween set. The Philosophy Haunted House Set includes 6 oz. bottles of black licorice, caramel apple and pumpkin spice muffin high foaming shampoo, shower gel and bubble baths.

These are nice combo items and they really do smell great! I am in love with the black licorice used as a body wash! It is a nice scent for fall that isn’t too sweet.

Buy it for yourself as a seasonal treat (note that the scents will fit in seasonally well past Halloween) or give it as a fun seasonal gift!

The kit is $30 at $30.00 at philosophy.com, or individually in larger bottles for $16 each.

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Bioelements Vitalization Body Creme

Bioelements makes many wonderful items, including one of the richest body creams that I have seen in some time. Bioelements Vitalization Rich Intensity Body Creme is lovely stuff. It is a creamy, thick lotion with a luxurious feel and high moisture factor. It also has a wonderful light aroma—the product of ten botanical oils (apricot kernel, olive, rice bran, grape, black currant, sunflower seed, bergamot, cardamom and clove). Red tea is also included as an anti-oxidant.

I find it great for dry skin, after shaving or waxing, or just for a silky soft feel! The tub is big too, with a full 8 ounces.Shop for Bioelements skin care products

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Removing Calluses with the Ped Egg

I love my Ped Egg! I seriously think that every callused foot on the planet deserves one!

When I first read about the Ped Egg at Bionic Beauty I wanted to try it. As I mentioned recently, I’m hard on my feet and the callus battle is constant for me. I have had success with various files and tools, but nothing has worked as well for me as the Ped Egg.

The Ped Egg is a little plastic egg with a foot file inside. This is not a callus razor, but is more than a sandpaper or pumice type of file. It generally is similar to a metal foot file, with a cheese grater look to it. Designed to be gentle, you can run it over your smooth skin without a scratch, but on calluses it grates and files them away, and it does so very quickly. The dead skin shavings are collected inside the egg, so there is also less mess. Fine grain file pads are also available for creating a smooth finish.

When I used the Ped Egg, I removed most of a fairly large heel callus in a matter of minutes. I had been doing some preparation using Glycolic Acid from AB Skin Care and some foot cream (read previous article), which also had softened things up a bit. I did find that if I held the egg tilted, too much that the dead skin would fall out, so to keep the skin in the egg where it belongs don’t tilt your egg too much! I finished off my feet with the file pad, added some moisturizing cream, and my feet were ready for a new pair of summer sandals!

The Ped Egg is available at PedEgg.com and other online sources, such as at Drugstore.com.

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Kill Calluses and Soften Feet with AB Skin Care Happy Feet

I am a foot killer. I wear shoes that rub, I cram my feet into Irish dance shoes and pound them around for hours on end, and sometimes I cram them into ice skates. The result is dry heels and nasty calluses. But I have found a few fixes. One of those is AB Skin Care Happy Feet.

AB Skin Care is a line created by Dr. Craig Austin, M.D. that focuses mostly on glycolic acid products. They also have some great sunscreens (read review). Because Glycolic Acid is a great exfoliator, it works quite well at assisting in callus removal. At 20% Glycolic, AB Skin Care’s Happy Feet has a nice concentration of it. The packaging is also quite nice, with individual use wipes.

I combined Happy Feet with a bit of Lac-Hydrin Cream (read review), which also contains the exfoliator lactic acid. I rubbed an AB skin care wipe on my calluses and let it dry, then rubbed in the Lac-Hydrin. Another option, albeit more expensive, is to seal in the glycolic with a touch of Creme de la Mer. For a cheaper option, Profoot cream (read review) also works well.

This combo did a good job of softening my calluses. When I combined it with use of a Ped Egg, my calluses basically disappeared. What is a Ped Egg? Well, it is a wonderful little tool for callus removal. Watch for my review of it here tomorrow!

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Update: Read the Ped Egg review.