When I was first approached by the folks at Blue Nectar, I was a little wary. I am asked a lot by folks with skincare lines to try their products. I am told a lot how beautiful my skin is so I have never taken anyone up on their offer before.

After receiving the email, I investigated the Blue Nectar products and I was intrigued. Their ingredients are totally natural with no chemicals. I’m working more every day to move to all natural products as all those chemicals that commercial preparations contain are just not good for me.

I was asked to try the Kumkumadi Night Cream with Jasmine. I looked at the product on Amazon and noticed on the label it mentioned Jasmine and Pachouli.

I LOVE the smell of jasmine. Back when we lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, we would pass by a certain house on our daily walk. Jasmine was growing over the fence and I breathed as much of it as I could each time we passed by.

I do NOT love the smell of Pachouli. I often wonder how people can wear that scent as it smells like mold to me.

Given that some smells, no matter how good they are, can make me nauseated over time (I once had to pull over to the side of the road so I could wipe a new lipstick off because it was making me sick!), I was just a touch nervous at the thought of how the smell would affect me.

I received the cream. The packaging is beautiful! It came in a square blue box with a removable lid. The ingredients are listed on the side of the box. Upon opening the box, you find a beautiful gold jar of cream.

I opened the jar and it smelled SOOOOO pretty. It smelled of jasmine with no hint of pachouli smell at all. But could I made it all night with it on my face or would it bother me? It didn’t bother me! It’s a gorgeous smell that I go to sleep smelling and it hasn’t made me sick once.

I love the way the cream is absorbed by my skin making it feel moisturized but not oily. This is crazy, but I love how I can still smell the cream when I’m working out and sweating the next morning and it comes out of my pores.

This is just exactly the night cream I was looking for and I didn’t even know it. Thank you, Blue Nectar for letting me try your beautiful night cream. I love it!

I have been using the Anew skin care products by Avon since they first came out. I can’t remember exactly when that was but it has to have been over 20 years ago.

Throughout those 20+ years I have received too many compliments on my skin to count. That’s why I was always loyal to those products. Until just a month or so ago.

I had to buy a new formulation. There was no getting the old formulation unless I wanted to buy it on eBay and run the risk of it being out of date, previously open, or something else icky. The new Anew formulation is disgusting. It sits on the top of your skin (similar to Avon lipstick) creating an oil slick and never absorbing. Additionally, it smells nasty.

Smells are important to me. There are so many I just can’t stand, that make me nauseous. When lotions and potions get old, their smell changes so that was a real consideration in my decision about whether I could buy the old items on eBay.

I started to get worried as the creams and cleanser inched toward the bottom of their containers. I did research. There are SO many options, so much variety.

I am a Libra. Born under the sign of the scales, with too many choices, I find my life hanging in the balance and no where to go. Paralyzed.

Finally, I realized I had to do SOMETHING. I decided on a product that I could get relatively inexpensively at Walgreen’s of all places. Cost is kind of a factor when you are purchasing something new because the range of price is as great as the range of selection. But these products had an amazingly good review and amazingly low price.

And they weren’t in the store.

Nowhere on the shelf at Walgreen’s could I find what I was looking for. So there I was again. Paralyzed by indecision. I knew I had to get something and so I took a leap.

I ended up grabbing the Oil of Olay Age Defying products; cleanser, day cream and night cream.

The verdict? I love them! I’ve been using these products for a little over a week and they are awesome.

I love the cleanser. It has the grains in it that makes your skin feel really clean and refreshed. The day and night creams absorb into my skin and it looks

great. Bonus points: it all SMELLS good! And of course, there is a cherry on top of all of this. I got all three products for less than $30. Yay!So I’m really happy with my choice. I’m going to use these products until I find they aren’t doing the trick. I’d still be interested in trying the one that I went to get initially but when something’s not broken, I don’t usually attempt to fix it. 🙂

Lauri Rottmayer

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