I buy it in the health aisle at the Superstore (the aisle with the organic foods and soaps etc).

I have the Strawberry Lemon lip balm and it is amazing. I looove the smell, and the ingredients are impressive. I would type them out but I don’t have my glasses-but it’s a mix of coconut oil, jojoba oil, castor oil, olive oil etc. Doesn’t appear to be anything drying in there. I looked on the site and it isn’t on there, and the ingredients in the other ones don’t seem the same as what I have, which is odd. Maybe it’s newer?

I bought one of their soap bars, the Pure Olive Oil bar. I chose it because I have sensitive skin and it has no added color, frangrance or animal products. The ingredients are olive oil, water and sodium chloride. I haven’t tried it yet but I’m pretty excited. Also love that it’s a big block, I thought there were two bars in the package, haha.

I’ve also had great luck with their shampoos and conditioners, smell amazing.

I also have Alba Botanicals sunscreen because I figured sunscreen is supposed to be protective and beneficial, right? Therefore I should get sunscreen without Ethyl/Methyl/Butyl Parabens, etc. because typical sunscreen might protect me from cancer caused by the sun, but not necessarily from cancer caused by chemicals in sunscreen products!!!

I just bought Alba bio-degradable foaming hand soap. Regular soap needs to be treated in the GVRD waste plant (the Vancouver Sun had a huge cover page story last year that said “USE LESS SOAP” because the government is too cheap to update our water waste treatment plant and the amount of soap that contaminates the oceans is a problem. I find that a really pathetic way of dealing with the problem, considering “Wash your hands” is drilled into us since birth!) plus, the anti-bacterial kind promotes bacterial resistance which could lead to bad bugs in the future. Who knows, maybe I won’t like this new soap, but I’m going to try it.

This stuff isn’t even that much more expensive than the products that I used to buy, in fact the Burts’ Bees face cremes are even cheaper than VICHY. And maybe it is the psychological happy-effect of buying natural products, organic products, recyclable and biodegradable products that makes my skin healthier rather than the product itself. My skin is a lot healthier than before and much less greasy than even when I used “Shine-free” lotion. Either way, actually being able to read and understand every single ingredient in the product is important to me, because it’s MY body that I’m putting it on.

Since many of the ingredients in our Canadian products have long been banned in the UK and elsewhere, I am going to try to stick with the “Natural Products” beauty aisle from now on.

Thanks for the reviews, I’m totally going to look for some of that lip balm…and possibly some of the kids detangler–why don’t they make that for adults?