Nouve Body Mist in Dream Review

Recently, I got Nouve Body Mist in Dream because the scent's familiar. Then it hit me. Once home, I took my bottle of Aficionado F44 EDT, which is supposed to be inspired by Paris Hilton perfume. Nouve Body Mist in Dream is a less potent Aficionado F44. They are very similar, especially in the opening where apple is dominant among the fruity notes. However as time pass, Aficionado F44 has more depth, its floral notes heavier, more enveloping than Nouve Body Mist in Dream whose florals turn lighter, flighty. 

An online search lead me to this seller (I'm not affiliated with their shop) whose account described Nouve Body Mist in  Dream as an impression of Ralph Lauren. I guess they mean Ralph by Ralph Lauren which is often compared to Paris Hilton in Fragrantica.

Nouve Body Mist in Dream does not have much staying power. The smell of  alcohol is overpowering. Needless to say, 60 ml will not last long. 

I bought my Nouve Body Mist from a co-worker. That seems to be one of the effects of this pandemic, people started engaging in side hustles while some of  those who lost jobs started their own business. 

A lot went into online selling. Live selling on facebook, which is selling stuff, the most popular of which has been clothes, in real time while people watching place orders, became really popular. As did food delivery businesses. 

When this pandemic started, some went into bartering: there were people on Facebook who offered stuff like personal care items in exchange for milk for their kids. The first months of the lockdown, if not the first year, were very brutal.

Almost two years into the pandemic, life seems to be going back to normal except everyone still needs to observe social distancing (hard to do when public vehicles are now being filled to full capacity), masking and sanitizing. While this post is being written, there has been no new case in our city. Let's hope we are able to sustain this. 

Avon Skin So Soft Hand and Body Lotion Glutathione with SPF 15 Review

It's almost summer where I'm at, that time when mosquitoes swarm like those zombies from "All Of Us Are Dead." Except they are drawn to scent not sound.

One of the more enduring lotions in the market is Avon Skin So Soft which has been said to ward off mosquitoes. Avon Skin So Soft Hand and Body Lotion Glutathione with SPF 15 does not repel mosquitoes. It never claims to do that in the first place.

What it does profess is "instant whitening" and to "help make skin look fairer in just 3 days." So is it instant or 3 days? Well, it actually took 2 months of daily  application in the morning and evening before someone told me, "pumuti ka." For me it's lightening more than whitening that happened and quite negligible.

For normal to dry skin, it is  moisturizing unlike most whitening products that are often drying. True to its name skin feels soft after I smooth it on. But, if you have papery, flaky skin, this won't help with that. Better get a lotion whose main purpose is heavy duty moisturization / hydration. 

Consistency-wise, it is thick yet easily soaked up by skin and does not leave a white cast. The low SPF (15) is okay if one is mostly staying indoors or for overcast skies but not for clear ones. So this is not really suitable as a sunscreen during summer.

Apparently, Skin So Soft's different lines have varying scents. It's a heavy floral. The smell of this is similar to Avon Skin So Soft Soft and White Radiant Glow Hand and Body Lotion which is no longer around. I mentioned before that Skin So Soft Lotions are very fragrant, with the scent perfuming the skin for hours. This is no different.

I'm pleased they changed bottles. A decade ago, design teams of a lot of hygiene products thought that dispensing liquid from a small hole on flat top is a good idea for bottles. The products tend to stick to said flat top. So messy! 

Now if only Avon would bring to the country its Skin So Soft bug repellents, I would even be more pleased.

Finds at Thirdy's Bocaue: Unilever Hair Care Products and Reviews of Clear and Dove Dermacare Scalp Anti-Dandruff Shampoos

Before the pandemic, my brother discovered Thirdy's, a store in Bocaue which offers imported And local chocolates for cheap. 

These are some of the chocolates and snacks they got in one of their runs.

Perfect for Valentine's Day!

There, they found out that the store also carries bath products and fragrances, also at super low prices. The items are legit, not fake. They work.

Sale items get snapped up pretty quickly. So what you gonna do when faced with shampoos and conditioners at about 50% less mall prices with the possibility that the next time you are there, they wouldn't be? 

You hoard several tubes and bottles.

Some we still haven't used up

For most of last year until now, because of this, me and my sister have been using Unilever hair care products like Dove, Clear and Creamsilk.

I don't really have terrible, large, flaky, crusty dandruff but I occasionally get tiny flakes and my scalp sometimes would become dry and itchy. Thus the dandruff shampoos. 

Clear Anti-Dandruff Shampoo in Ice Cool Menthol and Clear Men Anti-Dandruff Shampoo in Cool Sport Menthol are both able to rid me of those annoying tiny, oily, dandruff that tend to fly this way and that close to my scalp by drying them out. The former just has a minty floral but masculinish scent while latter has a minty orange one.

But the primary reason I got these particular Clear Anti-dandruff Shampoos is the minty feeling they impart. Scalp feels really refreshed and considering we live in the tropics where 30 degrees is not a summer but a normal daily temperature, having a cooling product is a need for me. And to think I get cold easily.

The thing with Dove Dermacare Scalp Anti-Dandruff Shampoo in Soothing Moisture is, I noticed that after using it for weeks,  my below shoulders rebonded hair started to lose its straightness.  But my hair feels much more softer when I use this than it does when I use Clear. Clear is better in addressing dandruff though. It has a vanilla fragrance. 

All these three products I have are made in the Philippines.

Before heading over, it's best to check Thirdy's Facebook page to see what's on sale. I think they also deliver.