I’m really excited to talk about this next new-to-me brand. It’s called SOUTH OF FRANCE. For two decades, the two founders, who happen to be sisters, have manufactured their products in the USA and paid attention to a lot of the important factors out there that people value:

• vegan
• non-GMO bar soaps
• Leaping Bunny certified
• free of sulfates
• free of phthalates
• free of parabens
• free of EDTA,
• free of animal-by-products
• gluten-free
• BPA-free plastic bottles

and many more. Click here to see all the traits.

When it comes to the soap, they make it using the traditional Marseille triple-milled recipe, which I love (read more about French soap here).

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I don’t know that last time I smelled a really French product. As in one that transports me back. And this COLLOSOL Eau de Lait ($18/3.4oz, $28/8.5oz, $38/13.5oz @ bigelowchemists.com, smallflower.com) does just that. It brings me back to my Aunt’s house just outside of Paris and when I used to visit as a child every year, then, quite frequently as a teen (it was my father’s answer of trying to tame me).

Created in Paris in the 1950s, this milky water cleanser and makeup remover has become a cult favorite of those in the know, and now I’m one of them!

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I should take a picture of my bath products in the shower for you some time but I’m a little embarrassed. Anyone who uses my bathroom usually comments on how many body cleansing products I keep in the tub area – bar soaps, cleansing creams, bath gels … I must have about 14 different ones tub-side, and now I’ll be adding Caress White Orchid and Coconut Milk Shower Foam that I bought at CVS and cvs.com.

I am pretty obsessed with all things coconut each spring and orchids are one of my favorite flowers to look at, though I have a problem keeping them alive, so I love that they combined the two in this cleanser.

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I love when I come across a product that does it differently like this H2O+ Sea Salt Mousse to Oil Body Moisturizer ($18/5oz @ h2oplus.com, qvc.com). It’s a body moisturizer that comes in a can and dispenses a foam that turns into an oil. Did you follow all that?

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How much do you love to take a bath? I do and before I get into the water, I almost treat it like a soup as in, what am I going to put in the water? There’s so many options! How about this Bubble Box Twinkle Twinkle from SKY ORGANICS? It’s a nice sampling of their line for a reasonable price.

Here’s what inside the box:

• Pumpkin Apple Butter Bath Bomb
• Candy Apple Bath Bomb
• Oatmeal Milk & Honey Bubble Scoop
• Peppermint Shower Steamer (great for when you have a cold and need to open up your nasal passages!).

Such cozy scents! And all their products are made in the USA, vegan, sulfate-free and use organic ingredients, to name a few standouts. Are bath bombs your thing? $19.25 @ skyorganics.us. And you can also order a subscription of these to arrive monthly!

Disclosure: A sample of this item was provided for review purposes.

If there’s one thing in beauty that I just love and actually collect, it’s soaps. I have about 20 stocked in my collection that I keep in my bathroom and beauty closet. And though I can’t seem to find the post right now, I know I’ve posted about keeping one on my beauty table just hold in my hand and smell here. They are just that enjoyable for me.

Have you ever thought about the soaps you keep for you and your guests to use in the sink and/or tub? I pay attention to this seemingly small detail and always have, so if you do, then you may recognize these Bath Soaps from LAFCO. Maybe it’s the name or their unique packaging they come in.

The base of LAFCO Bath Soaps is a blended 100% vegetable base using refined coconut oil. Each is quadruple milled and contain perfume-grade scents that will last on the skin.

Shown here in Sea & Dune (grass, sand, ocean), Champagne (clean and sparkling w/notes of ginger, lemon), Feu de Bois (woody, smoky, warm). Even with regular daily use, each bar will last up to 4 weeks!

In a world made up of gels, serums and scrubs cluttering the shower, isn’t it nice to revisit a simple basic? Choose from $17/8.5oz @ lafco.com.

Also be sure you check out their beautiful line of candles, body creams and more!

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I’m still trying to hold onto the last feels of summer and LATHER’s new Jasmine & Plumeria Body Oil ($28/3.8oz @ lather.com) are helping me. I mean what’s not to like about jasmine? It’s in a lot of my perfumes and plumeria reminds me of the handful of times I’ve visited the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

And this oil is made with good stuff! Check it out for yourself:

caprylic/capric triglyceride (an emollient derived from coconut and glycerin), glycine soja (soybean) oil, carthamus tinctorius (safflower) seed oil, dicaprylyl ether, dicaprylyl carbonate, plumeria acutifolia flower extract, jasminum officinale (jasmine) flower extract, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil, citrus nobilis leaf oil, cananga odorata (ylang ylang) flower oil, fragrance*, tocopherol (family of vitamin E compounds). *natural fragrance

If I’m an ingredient reader of any beauty product, it’s face and body oils. It’s just so easy to hide fillers and synthetics inside them to take up space. I feel like they sink in so easily that I only want to put the most real ones on my skin. This one passes.

And this scent also comes in a Body Whip ($28/7oz) and a Bath Gel ($18/8oz).

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Quick! What are you getting your Mom for Mother’s Day? She has enough socks. She has enough pictures of you. So why not give her the gift of relaxation in the form of a bath bomb from Aprilis? Each 3.88oz bomb inside the Aprilis Bath Bomb Gift Set is made with 100% organic essential oils as well as dried flowers. The scents inside the box are: Green Tea, Milk, Rose, Lavender, Osmanthus Frangrans, and Pot Marigold.

Never experienced a bath bomb before? Just start the bath water, wait until you are about half way full and just drop one in. It fizzes away from the bicarb inside each and releases the oils and other nourishing ingredients into the bath water to help make your skin super soft.

And I love that Aprilis individually wraps each of the bombs in ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­a very thin non-toxic paper. It’s nice not to have to guess which scent is which, right, because each is labelled on the outside? And these are really fragrant! Like so strong that you can smell them through the box and into the room!

And they are running a contest on their Facebook page just for Mother’s Day! They are giving away 30 of the Aprilis Bath Bomb Gift Sets. Click here to enter.

And they are also offering 30% discount on Amazon if you use this link to purchase and use the code UJ47F2XF at check out.

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What do you use in the shower with your body cleanser? One of those beauty puffs? Yeah, I’ve gone through many of them over the years and just recently some beauty bloggers and I were having a discussion on those puffs. As in, have you ever tried to clean one? Or do you even clean them? Well a couple of outlets have rang the bell super loud on why we shouldn’t even use these to clean ourselves because of the bacteria that can build up on them. I mentioned that I put mine in the washing machine with a load of laundry but even then I’m not so sure that gets them really clean.

In any case, there is now a solution and it’s called the DUO Body Cleanser and comes from 3 brands, Olay, Ivory and Old Spice. I did an unboxing on my Instagram when I got them last week, which you may have seen, and I really think these are game changers as we’ve never seen anything like it on shelves before.

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Since it’s been especially rainy in Los Angeles the past week or so, I’m in full-on bath mode. It only rains here or there during the LA winters, so continuous rain like this is really unusual.

Ok, enough with the weather report and back to the bath. After a probably-too-warm one, my pores are open and ready to eat up moisture! As I’ve said before when I first tried one of these kind of apply-right-after-showering/bathing products – no one wants to stand around in the middle of winter in a cold bathroom applying lotion/cream to their parts and this one helps conquer this problem.  

CUREL just came out with Hydra Therapy Wet Skin Moisturizer ($10.99 @ target.com, diapers.com) in a huge 12oz size so as soon as the water is turned off, I’m reaching for this fragrance-free one to pump-pump out into my hand. It’s water-activated so as soon as you start applying it to your wet skin, it’s already penetrating the dermis with their special Advanced Ceramide Complex (ceramides are lipid molecules that replenish moisture as well as strengthen the skin’s barrier).

And I able to apply this one so quick that I feel like I’m actually skipping a step in my beauty routine!

Will this be making its way onto your must-have list?