Posts Tagged ‘essential oils’

• Fragrance & Food – Grapefruit Fir Compote & Angel Food Cake

  Date: 2012.01.14 | Category: fragrance, fragrance and food | Response: 4

  Fragrance & Food – Grapefruit Fir Compote with Angel Food Cake

  Loosely based on CREED Silver Mountain Water

  Years ago, I had a sponge cake with a rosemary grapefruit topping at a café. This combination of flavors inspired me to play around with the combo of tart grapefruit, the dynamic fresh/cooling mountainous flavor of fir over vanilla sugar. I wanted something refreshing.

  

  This is a super easy recipe especially if you buy a pre-made angel food cake. I purchased an angel food cake… Continue reading | 4 Comments

• Becca & Mars Calm Yourself Fragrance Oil Blend Review

  Date: 2011.03.02 | Category: fragrance | Response: 6

  

  Becca & Mars Calm Yourself Essential Oil Blend is a multi-purpose natural oil that is used to scent baths and to fragrance rooms as a home fragrance oil. This is a highly fragrant/concentrated oil that is blended to sooth with its natural essential oil blend.

  I add about 5 drops to a steaming hot bath. This is more than enough Calm Yourself oil to fragrant the entire upstairs of my house. The fragrance is very natural and citrus lovers should like… Continue reading | 6 Comments

• Becca & Mars Sugar & Spice Massage Oil Review

  Date: 2010.12.09 | Category: body products | Response: 9

  

  Indie brand,Becca & Mars Sugar and Spice Massage Oil is a moisturizing, naturally fragranced jojoba based oil. This massage oil has a woodsy-floral fragrance and moisturizes.

  The formula is an oil. So, yep, it feels like oil. I love oils even though they are messy. I love how oils make my skin feel. No joke, I use body oils daily in the winter. My skin loves them. Sugar & Spice is a… Continue reading | 9 Comments

• NEW: Becca & Mars Holiday Natural Bath & Body Products

  Date: 2010.11.21 | Category: new products | Response: 1

  

  Indie, natural bath and body line, Becca & Mars has launched 3 new limited edition winter/seasonal natural bath products.

  Winter Night Oil Blend - This essential oil blend can be used in the bath or in an oil diffuser to fragrance the home. This delicious blend contains spicy cinnamon, clove, orange, lemon, and bergamot oils. This oil blend retails for $11.

  Peppermint Vanilla Hand Candy Sugar Scrub – This sugar based hand scrub contains essential oils of peppermint… Continue reading | 1 Comment

• A Beautiful Life Smitten Huile de Parfum Fragrance Review

  Date: 2010.10.05 | Category: fragrance | Response: 7

  

  A Beautiful Life Smitten perfume oil is described as “feminine, fresh, and sexy – like the blush of first love or the sultry promise of a summer night“. It is a tart citrus floral fragrance with an earthy base from New Jersey located hipster cosmetic/fragrance brand, A Beautiful Life or ABL.

  When I first apply Smitten, I get peppery tangerine juice. It is a sparkling citrus and very easy to identify as tangerine. But, it has an earthy vibe… Continue reading | 7 Comments