Holy Grail Beautyy . . .

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Frank Body is an Australian skin care company who I blogged about earlier this year see post here.  The skincare products are focused around coffee bean grains.  They had wonderful success by marketing mainly through Instagram alone.  I had never tried a lip scrub so it was a good opportunity when the product line became available at Myers department store to try the Frank Body brand - it was a two birds with one stone opportunity! It cost $10.95 I believe.  The website for Frank Body says it is sold out so the price was not available.

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There is not much to say other than this is a good little lip scrub! It smells like ice coffee and it contains:

Ground Robusta Coffee
Coco-Caprylate/Caprate**
Coffee seed oil
Raw Sugar
Fragrance*
Cold pressed macadamia oil
Ethically sourced beeswax
Vitamin E 
Grape seed oil
Silica Dimethyl Silylate
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride** 
*naturally derived
**naturally derived and sustainably sourced. Contains Nuts 

It is free from parabens and PEG's.


It is easy to use, just put your finger and take a little swipe and apply to dry lips.  Spread it around and the granules will remove any dry skin on your lips.  You can then remove it with a tissue or a wipe anything really that can remove it.  It leaves your lips smooth and soft.  No residue or other unwanted effects.  Recommended to be used one to two times a week

Definitely recommend this scrub!

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Becca Cosmetics is an Australian founded complexion focused cosmetic company that was created by Rebecca Morrice Williams in 2001 to fill the need she had to find the right foundation base and finding the current offerings at the time lacking. 

Becca Cosmetic complexion enhancing products have been highly lauded on social media, particularly on YouTube with the well known beauty v-logger Jaclyn Hill joining with them to create the highlighter du jour "Champagne Pop".  Their collaboration spawned the "Champagne Collection" with various products such as blush, other highlighter options, liquid formulations of the highlighters and more.  Highlighting became an international past time!

Becca Cosmetics has always had a high end profile and now that Estee Lauder is closing the deal in November 2016, I think Becca will absolutely go the next level to a luxury favourite in the future.  Being Australian myself, I recall when a certain magazine *I have forgotten which one I am sorry!* featured her Beach Tint in Watermelon cheek colour creme stain and Eye Tint in a brown shimmer shade samples with the purchase of the magazine as a freebie! I kept them for so long because they were great and lasted quite a long time before the formula started to break down.

Currently, Rebeeca Morrice Williams  LinkedIn profile still has Becca Cosmetics listed as her employment and job roles as Creative Director and Director/Founder.   Congratulations to Rebecca for creating such a successful and loved cosmetic company Becca for us to enjoy. 

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My holy grail face pressed powder is by Revlon Nearly Naked in Fair/Clair and I didn't realise how much I appreciated it until I started to experiment and review products for this blog to assist you guys out there on products and their performance.

This is a mineral pressed powder compact sans mirror, as I am very fair I chose Porcelain.  There is a very limited colour selection in all the skin focused products.  This colour is slightly ever so yellowish.  I applied it to my face with the sides of my blush brush from Eco Tools and I also tried it with a Manicare powder velour puff. 

I did not really like the finish, it seemed unrefined.  The powder does not attest to any special qualities when you use it.  After two to three hours, I had a lot of oily patches all over my face come through so you would need to bring this with you to touch up whilst out and about.

After four hours plus, I found that it settled into my open pores on my cheeks where my pores are the most prominent.  It definitely has a yellowish tinge to it no doubt.

Unfortunately I found that this powder did not work for me, my skin is normal to combination with a very oily T-Zone and fair with pink tones and freckles, blue eyes and blonde hair.

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The beauty world is always on the look out for the next big thing in a tube, tub or pump dispenser to make us look younger, beautiful, sexy etc.  Coffee as a star ingredient is by no means a new thing, and is already being used in products by some of your favourite companies and is a cottage industry on Etsy.

There is a new aussie company called Frank Body, which has taken to using unused coffee grounds as the active ingredient in a variety of body skin care products.  Obviously, scrubbing your skin is going to slough off dry skin and improve your circulation from the repetitive rubbing movements on your skin leading to a better appearance superficially.

Frank Body released their skin products solely through Instagram and now have 659,000 followers which has amassed quite quickly.  Instagram is absolutely a great way to market your company and a new novel sounding product.

Does it work? Scientists, when queried if this form of coffee/caffeine has active benefits through topical application is a jury's out situation.  If you never used products to rub into your skin as a scrub then you are going to have a good result simply from removing dead skin and blood flow improvement.  If you happen to appreciate a coffee infused product for its usability, its price point, the company's ethos that's fine.

I think coffee grounds will be continued to be used in some beauty products but this is going to be up to the individual consumer as to whether you think its a wonder product for your skin.

If it works for you, do it!

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Is coffee good for my skin?

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Cleanse + Exfoliate Silk Sheet Facial Mask is the third of the silk sheet masks from the brand Essenzza Health that I have bought and tried.  This contains some great ingredients to assist in skins appearance and overall health.  On opening you can smell a faint pineapple smell which is inoffensive and fades off.  Here is some of the ingredients in this particular mask:

• Aloe Vera
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Ananas Sativa Fruit Extract (Pineapple)
• Citrus Grandis Seed Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract (Anti oxidants from Common Purslane)
• Tremella Fuciformis Extract (Tremella Mushroom - helps skin to retain moisture) 
• Avena Sativa Kernel Extract (Ground oat kernels shell helps soothe skin and moisturise)
• Tranexamic Acid ( A synthetic amino acid that helps the skin to repair itself)

This is a 3 layer sheet mask, so on opening the sachet you pull it out and remove the first shiny layer as per instructions.  Pop it onto your face and finding the eye, nose and mouth areas and then pull off the blue layer.  You then leave it on for 20-30 minutes.

It does not dry completely on your face so do not expect that to occur.  After the allotted time, you then remove it from your face and let the rest of the product absorb into your skin.  I did this mask during the afternoon and after it had absorbed my skin was smooth, plump and soft, so out of the three masks this is another one that I will continue to buy and use, once on a weekly basis alternating between the masks.

I definitely would buy this mask again out of the three that Essenzza Naturals sell.  The other two masks are:

• Moisturise & Smooth Carrot Seed + Coconut
• Anti Ageing & Anti Oxidant Morroccan Argan Oil + Vitamin C

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