Pert Plus Shampoo with Henna Extracts for Stronger Hair Review

Annually, our cousin would gift us with a balikbayan box full of stuff - bags, perfumes, teas, treats and beauty and household products. Among the recent loot was a large bottle of Pert Plus Shampoo with Henna Extracts for Stronger Hair. I tried it for a month before it took permanent-until-empty residence in my sissy's (who's concerned about hair-fall) bathroom.

blurb: Pert Plus which is inspired by the traditional recipes that Arab women have been using for centuries keeps your hair soft and smooth.This variant, with henna extracts, also helps nourish your hair to keep it strong against combing damage. With Pert Plus, great hair no fuss.

Ingredients: aqua, sodium laureth sulfate, cocamidopropyl betaine, sodium chloride, panthenol, lawsonia inermis leaf extract, prunus armeniaca kernel oil, disodium cocoamphodiacetate, glycol distearate, citric acid, sodium benzoate, peg-7 glyceryl cocoate, cocamide mea, dimethicone, parfum, laureth-4, peg-40, hydrogenated castor oil, styrene/acrylates copolymer, peg-120 methyl glucose, dioleate, guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride. propylene glycol, butylphenyl methylpropynal, linalol, laureth-23, glycerin, benzyl alcohol, citronella, hexyl cinnamal, alpha isomethyl ionone

My Current Maybelline Lippies, Online Shopping and Fakes

Presenting my current Maybelline Lipstick and Liquid Lipsticks: Color Sensational The Loaded Bolds Lipstick in Smoking Red and Super Stay Matte Ink Liquid Lipsticks in Assertive (205) and Self Starter (130).

Kalachuchi and Fruity Blooms Frangipani and Brown Sugar Body Mist

Victoria's Secret  Love Spell Midnight. That was what I thought the first time I took a whiff of Fruity Blooms Frangipani and Brown Sugar Body Mist. The former was my aunt's signature scent for so long. She especially wears it when she hears mass. I think it's the floral note. VS Love Spell Midnight is hypnotic blossoms and vanilla. I've always wondered what hypnotic blossoms are. The flower on the VS Love Spell Midnight bottle looks like Blue Paradise which I don't know the smell of. I don't know the smell of frangipani either. 

See, frangipani is known as kalachuchi in the Philippines. When I was a kid I was told it was a flower for the dead, bulaklak ng patay. Too scared, I stayed away from it even if a tree produces a lot of blooms. I didn't bother asking why it is regarded as such.

Avon Naturals Hand and Body Lotion: Silky Vanilla and Soy Milk Review

Now this lotion would have paired well with Avon Kate's World Pretty Magical and Pretty Rockin Body Spritzes.

Snuggle in with the comforting fragrance of silky vanilla, brown sugar crystals and a delicate sheer woods background.

Body in Bloom Petunia Blush Hand Soap and Bodyxpert Mint Body Wash

And it's the Ber months. I often see posts recommending Christmas gift ideas and gift sets featuring beauty products but reviews about them, not that much. I enjoy gift ideas posts as they make gift hunting easier but reviews would push me to get something awesome (and likely gift myself with one as well) or help me stay clear from gifting someone something not that good. Maybe people just get stuff for others without trying them out first. Or maybe they think said stuff would no longer be available the following year so why write how they fare.

Body in Bloom Petunia Blush Hand Soap is one of those seasonal bath products which one can find in Watson's when September starts to slink in. It's a returning product, in a different get-up. Mine was a gift and is the current hand soap on my bathroom sink.

Delon Olive Shampoo and Unicare Cream Nature Perfume Body Wash

I'm that person who would hit the sale/promo section at the supermarket before seeking out the items on my grocery list in their assigned shelves. I get a high out of scoring things with a freebie or  cheaper than they usually are. Yes, I'm mababaw. But wouldn't you feel bad when you learn that the milk pack you purchased could have gotten you a water jug similar to a Coleman's had you dropped by the sale/promo area?

So while I was perusing the toothpastes on said section (The usual Colgate Fresh Confidence Gel Red Extreme or stripe-y Triple Action Anti-Cavity?) I spotted the Scotch-taped Unicare Perfume Body Washes which were buy one get one. A lone Delon Olive Shampoo sat next to the bottles. It's about half the price of a mainstream shampoo (Sunsilk, Dove). In the cart they went with the red toothpaste.

Baby Bench Cologne in Bubblegum Review and Recalling Daiso / Saizen's Carnival Scents

There was this post that circulated over facebook and twitter sometime ago.

Grade School: Baby Cologne 

High School: Daily Scent 

College: Bench/Penshoppe 

Working: Vicks/Efficascent/Katinko/Omega

It's a generalization of what scent an age group usually wears. Except in high school, our generation were into colognes formulated/made in Spain (Nenuco, Denenes and Angel's Breath) and those colognes in bottles you can squeeze. The one who originally posted this may have overlooked the fact that Daily Scent is a cologne line from Bench and Bench has baby colognes, Baby Bench Colonia. But we know what they are getting at.

Anyway, I don't go to school anymore and yet I have all of the above in my dresser. One of them being Baby Bench Cologne, well Baby Bench Colonia, in Bubblegum.

Baby Bench Cologne in Bubblegum does not straight up smell like bubblegum. Some names of the colognes in the Baby Bench Colonia line are a misnomer since they don't smell as such.  Ice Mint is not minty and Jelly Bean is not jelly bean-ish.

Daiso Camellia Oil in Shampoo Review

A few years back, Shiseido Tsubaki Shampoos and Conditioners became quite the rage. People were raving about how soft, frizz-free and fragrant their hair have become from using these hair products. Some also experienced less hair fall.

When I first heard of Tsubaki, my brain immediately went female childhood best friend in "Your Lie in April." Because, of course, me who's into anime would think that. Ang layo. Tsubaki is a flowering plant priced for its oil. The oil is widely used in Japan for hair and skin care, either as a product ingredient or as it is, because of its moisturizing ability. It's said to be used by geishas and maikos for lustrous hair. (1)

There were those who were able to snap Shiseido Tsubaki Shampoos and Conditioners from Daiso, priced higher than the usual P88, but amazingly lower than in other stores. I think it's the price point, still higher than mainstream shampoos and conditioners, and availability which kept these products from the masses. Me, I never got to get my hands on them. I think those few years back was when I experienced prolonged lost time, marked by my absence on socmed. I was able to try Daiso's Camellia Oil in Shampoo though.
 

See, Tsubaki happens to be Camellia japonica. It's one of the ingredients of this shampoo.

Dove Body Wash vs Summer Swelter

So summer still refuses to relinquish its hold over the country. I've been to a few places where temp's higher but I can hardly feel the heat. Where I'm at, somewhere north of Manila, my weather app says it's just 37 degrees Celsius but if you factor in humidity, heat index is pegged at scorching. It seems summer this year is as torchy as 2014. Last year was not like this.

I have been taking baths several times a day, even waking up at night to do so because even the AC doesn't stand a chance against the humidity. Plus my room is not that well ventilated and heat tends to rise up so while the rooms downstairs have cooled down, mine, I'd think, is still purgatory. I only get a reprieve at around 3AM.

Or as I have said, when I take a bath at some ungodly hour.

Bench Bratsplash Strawberry Shake Cologne Review

A few days after I published my post on Bench Bratsplash Hand Sanitizers, I saw a tweet announcing that Krispy Kreme now offers Spring Doughnuts, fruity doughnuts with flavors like Kiwi lemon, Raspberry Melon, Strawberry Blueberry, etc.

I felt I gotta post a review on Bench Bratsplash Strawberry Shake Cologne to round off my own fruit basket.

Bench Bratsplash Hand Sanitizer Review

Sometime during the Christmas rush, I found myself at a Bench store looking for something that would fit the monito monita  theme of the week. At the counter, I noticed a sign stating that Bench Bratsplash Hand Sanitizer Gels (50 ml, no silicone/rubber holders) are at P20 a piece instead of P24 when you get 4. Naturally, I got a couple because savings and they'd make good giveaways.

Celeteque Clarifying Shampoo Review and a Really Off-Putting Salon Agent

My sister bought two bottles of Celeteque Clarifying Shampoos after her coworkers raved that it had effectively addressed their hair fall problem. One of them even gifted a bottle to another coworker who easily became a convert.

Nestle Milk Teas and Chili Garlic Sauces

Milk teas happen to be an "in" thing for teens judging from the amount of milk tea posts that appeared in my timeline in the last quarter of 2018. I don't know if this has something to do with Maymay Entrata's TV commercial Nestle Milk Teas.

Chili garlic sauce and Nestea Hokkaido-Style Milk Tea