Review on Sebastian Potion 9

Product Description

Sebastian Potion 9 Wearable Styling Treatment is the ultimate versatile styling cream infused with 9 Botanical extracts to help restore lost moisture, repairs damaged, environmentally stressed hair and rejuvenate the healthy look of your hair. Perfect for styling your hair into multiple looks with flexible hold.

Active-oil botanicals restore hair's natural condition, leaving hair with renewed shine. Protective agent cocktail enhances manageable styling.
 
Key ingredients include safflower, rose hips and borage seed oil, to renew your hair's natural protective barrier eliminating unwanted water loss, repairing brittle portions of your hair and restoring pliability.

Potion 9 refers to the 9 essential extracts to help restore lost moisture, revitalize damage and rejuvenate the condition of hair. They are; jojoba seed oil, safflower seed oil, sesame seed oil, babassu oil, olive oil, evening primrose oil, rice bran oil, willow bark extract and green tea leaf extract. And the magic doesn’t stop there. This treatment is also wearable, making it perfect for styling hair.

I have been hearing good things about this magical potion and I was really looking forward to getting this product. However, I found it to be expensive in those salons I visited and was hesitant in getting it.

Imagine my delight when I chanced upon this product while shopping in Hong Kong. It costs a mere HK$65 or S$13 for the 150ml tube. It was such a real steal.

It comes in a tube which gets dented easily hence may result in accidental spilled-over at times.
Orangy in colour and glooey in texture, this leave-in treatment spreads easily from the hands to the hair. The scent is not something I like but its still bearable for the magic that it can create.

Garnering a 8.5 rating in Total Beauty , this is one product which gets good comments from all over the world. After using it for more than 3 months, I would say that its a great potion that helps to condition my hair and keeps it soft and manageable.
Its recommended to use on damp hair so I usually used this after my shampooed hair.
A dollop goes a long way and helps to define my curls by giving it a slight hold without weighing my hair down.
Its great that it acts as both a leave-in treatment gel as well as a styling product.

Sad to say, it does nothing to my frizziness though. Thats my only complaint and if the tube can be changed to a more resilent one, that would be even better.

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Review on Imselene Olive Olive and Amino Repair Shampoo

I bought the small trial size 100g from Watsons at $1.99 and decided to give it a try since olive is widely known for its shine properties on hair.

A special home tip : using normal olive oil ( can get it at Watsons ) regularly on your hair can give you sleek and shiny tresses.

Product Description
Made in Korea and suitable for damaged and dry hair, this is a special formula of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, amino acids, Pro-vitamin B5 and Natural Plant Extracts designed to repair, moisturize and nourish the hair cuticles leaving hair soft and shiny.

White and creamy, it smells quite alright, I am not sure what the scent is but I am fine with both the scent and the texture.
Since this is for dry and damaged hair, I certainly thinks my hair does need a little TLC as I usually coloured and permed my hair once a year which is not much, considering, today's standards but its still damaging to the hair.

Filled with so much goodness in a shampoo, I have high expectations of its performance and how it can measures up to my standard, especially on the shine properties.

After almost a month of daily usage, I do not exactly see and feel any difference. No shinier hair too. Its quite disappointing actually.

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Review on Burts Bee Honey Lip Balm

Product Description
Burts Bees is famous for their lip balms and now get yourself rewarded with a sweet treat from their new flavour - honey.

Made with sweet, soothing honey, this natural lip balm moisturises and nourishes lips. Plus, it’s packed with beeswax, shea butter, almond oil, cocoa butter and lanolin to keep your lips soft and healthy.
Its also chocking full of pain relieving protective ingredients to help soothe cracked, chapped or burning lips.

Honey: This sweet, fragrant, syrupy substance produced by bees soothes and adds softness to the skin, and is an excellent natural moisturizer.

Honey is created by bees as a food source for times when other sources are scarce. It is made up of a mixture of sugars and other compounds, and contains many vitamins and essential minerals including B-vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, copper, iron and magnesium, as well as several different amino acids.

Since it is a humectant, honey easily attracts and retains water, making it a great skin and hair moisturizer. Its antioxidant properties make it an effective ingredient for improving aging or sun-damaged skin, helping it to look smoother and younger. And, since it also has anti-irritant properties, skin care formulas for babies and others with delicate or sensitive skin often include honey to soothe.

The scent is rather light, with a slight whiff of honey.
It feels waxy when applied to the lips. Although it did provide moisturising relief for my sometimes chapped lips but somehow its still not that creamy enough to combat harsher conditions.
I would say its better than an average lip balm but I believe there are better ones out there.

Ingredients: cera alba (beeswax, cire d'abeille), helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, lanolin, aroma (flavor), mel (honey, miel), tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil, canola oil (huile de colza), benzyl benzoate, coumarin

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Review on Burts Bee Replenishing Lip Balm with Pomegranate Oil

I bought this from one of the Indian-owned souvenirs store in old Las Vegas in last May and only start using it now. I always love lip balms in a twist tube as its so much more hygenic and easier to apply on the dry chapped lips.

This is a replenishing and hydrating lip balm infused with the antioxidant goodness of pomegranate oil to replenishes moisture and restores texture to reveal smooth, healthy, supple lips.

Made up of natural ingredients, this lip balm contains no petroleums and only uses the natural colours found in the natural ingredients used in the product. Pomegrante is well-known for its antioxidant benefits in fighting free radicals and thats what made me choose this over other lip balms.

Deep red in colour, it is slightly tinted and leaves a slight red tinge on the lips. I actually did not fancy such lip balms but I was not aware of it when I bought it, so now I have to live with it.
It has a hint of fruity flavour but not too overpowering and despite rave reviews from fans, its just not suitable for me. Its not moisturing enough and is too mild for my sometimes chapped lips.

If my lips is flaking and I tried to use this lip balm, it does not seem to help at all. Its a miserable flop, in my view. It practically dries up my lips when it should be helping to moisturise it.

However, if my lips is already well-moisturised, the light red tint from this lip balm actually enhances my lip colour pretty well, giving it a lovely sheen.

You can get them from Amazon :
Burts Bee 100% Natural Lip Balm ( Multipack ) - makes a great Christmas gift
Burts Bee Replenishing Lip Balm with Pomegranate Oil
Burts Bee Replenishing Lip Balm with Pomegranate Oil ( Pack of 5 )

Burts Bee Lip balm is one of the bestsellers on the Amazon. You can check out the Amazon Bestseller in Skincare here or refer to my resource and savings page.

Ingredients :
Helianthus annuus (sunflower) oil, cena alba (beeswax/cire d'abeille), cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, castor oil, lanolin, symphytum officinale (comfrey) root, punica granatum (pomegranate) oil, prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, pimpinella anisum (anise) fruit oil, cinnamomum cassia (cassia) oil, cinnamomum zeylancium leaf oil, salvia officinalis oil, citrus nobilis (mandarin orange) peel oil, tocopheryl acetate & tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, carmine (CI 75470) parfum. Not tested on animals. 99.6% Natural.

Source : Burts Bee

Review on Puretree Home Aesthe Firming Collagen Gel Eye Patch

Product Description
Containing nourishing extracts from collagen, elastin and swiss alphine herb extracts to regain elasticity, moisture and health to the exhausted eye area.

I picked this up for HK$25 at Hong Kong SASA which is about $5 in late May.
I only started using this recently on a 5 day consecutive basis.

Containing 5 pairs of eye patches in a box, a pair of patches comes packed in a light transparent plastic tray in each individually sealed packet.
There is a slight herbal scent which I suspect it may be due to the Swiss Alphine Herb which reminded me of Ricola, the sweet, although I think Ricola smells much better.

Once taken out, the eye patch is quite slippery and slightly oily and may take several tries to place it correctly on the under eye area. This translucent gel-like patch does not drip and its almost dry after about 10mins and feels coolling and minty on the area.

However, despite claiming it as a firming collagen eye gel patch, I cannot feel any firming or tightening effects and my under eye area still looks as per normal after 5 days.

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