Category: Product Review

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Product Review: Clean Reserve H2EAU, Tom’s Deodorant, and Blue Lizard Sunscreen

April 28, 2024

Butterly has been spoiling me lately!  The team sent me, earlier this month, their Earth Month Package containing three products to review: Clean Reserve’s H2Eau rollerball perfume in Nectarine Petal, Tom’s of Maine’s Natural Deodorant in Rose Vanilla, and Blue Lizard’s SPF 50 sunscreen for sensitive skin. I have recently started posting follow-up reviews about… Read More Product Review: Clean Reserve H2EAU, Tom’s Deodorant, and Blue Lizard Sunscreen

— Food Products, Household Products, Product Review, Review, T-Fal —

Product Review: T-Fal Platinum Non-Stick Unlimited Collection, 26 cm Sauté Pan

May 30, 2023

I was thrilled last month to receive a pan free, courtesy of T-Fal and Influenster, in exchange for a review.  It’s been a rough winter, to put it mildly, in between dealing with a landlord who, shall we say, wouldn’t accept anything except what he wanted, which was against the law (but he insisted was… Read More Product Review: T-Fal Platinum Non-Stick Unlimited Collection, 26 cm Sauté Pan

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Product Review: Slay Your Goals Planner by It’s All You Boo

January 30, 2018
2018-01-30 Tuesday Personal Development Product Review Slay Your Goals Planner by It’s All You Boo

As discussed previously many times over the course of the last ten years of blogging, planners are a big part of my life.  I have a wonderful personal system that works really well for me, but am always open to tweaking it.  Because I don’t want to waste paper by buying planner after planner in… Read More Product Review: Slay Your Goals Planner by It’s All You Boo

— Beauty Products, Brand, Lancôme, Maybelline, Product Review, Review, Revlon, Rimmel —

Mascara Round-Up: 12 Months, 4 Mascaras, 1 Mom

January 26, 2018
2018-01-26 Family Friday Mascara Round-Up 12 Months, 4 Mascaras, 1 Mom

Part of my post-partum journey included adapting my beauty routine and developing hacks to balance out the short amount of time I wanted to dedicate to my routine versus wanting to still take care of myself.  As if they heard of my need to find the perfect mascara, the Influenster and ChickAdvisor programmes sent me… Read More Mascara Round-Up: 12 Months, 4 Mascaras, 1 Mom

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Product Overview: Alterre Shoes

June 8, 2016
Reviews 2016 06 08 Product Alterre

The sustainable enjoyment of the amazing material benefits the world has to offer us is a question I often address on this blog.  I believe that the benefits of the world are meant to be enjoyed as part of a life focused on personal development and of contributing to the betterment of the world. Over… Read More Product Overview: Alterre Shoes

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Taking the Plunge: The Launch of Product Reviews on Sahar’s Blog

June 7, 2016
Sahar's Blog 2016 01 12 Taking the Plunge 2016 Will be the Launching Year of Product Reviews

As a writer and blogger, I have always been told to write about my passions and what I know. What I am at my core is a Bahá’í who believes that this world is transitory, a preparatory phase for the next world, much like our mother’s womb was transitory and meant to prepare us for… Read More Taking the Plunge: The Launch of Product Reviews on Sahar’s Blog

— Baby Products, Brand, Household Products, Product Review, Review, The Honest Company —

Product Review: The Honest Company’s Free Discovery Kits (Part 1 of 2)

June 1, 2016
Sahar's Blog Product Review The Honest Company

When a company chooses, in the context of the current climate of distrust towards all things corporation, to use the word “honest” in their name, either they are supremely arrogant or they are extremely dedicated to creating a new kind of corporate culture. The overall feeling one gets from The Honest Company’s website is one… Read More Product Review: The Honest Company’s Free Discovery Kits (Part 1 of 2)

— Andrews + Blaine, Brand, Crane & Co, Kate Spade, Mudlark, Product Review, Product Review, Spr!tz, Target —

Product Review: Blank Cards, Thank You Cards, and Note Cards

May 25, 2016
Reviews 2016 02 24 Product Review Cards

A little over a year ago, I wrote a piece on how cards can help build a stronger community. Pleasantries, I wrote, “have been previously defined on this blog as the hydrogen bonds of community building” which although “are not in themselves strong enough to hold a molecule together, but can still change the properties… Read More Product Review: Blank Cards, Thank You Cards, and Note Cards

— Beauty Products, Food Products, Health Products, Product Review, Review —

Product Review: Carrington Farms’ Virgin, Cold-Pressed, Organic Coconut Oil

May 18, 2016
Product Review on Sahar's Blog

It often feels like we in North American are caught in the middle of a coconut craze, and I have to admit, what with the number of personal anecdotes that abound, that it isn’t without reason.  While I don’t think anything is a magical cure-all, there are many great uses to coconut oil that warrants… Read More Product Review: Carrington Farms’ Virgin, Cold-Pressed, Organic Coconut Oil

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Product Review: Burt’s Bees Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Cream

May 11, 2016
Product Review on Sahar's Blog

The long an often arduous Canadian winters make moisturizers for every part of one’s skin an essential part of one’s personal hygiene regimen.  I’m sure a couple of tons of the stuff is slathered on every winter in a desperate attempt to avoid the discomfort of tightening dry skin. Which makes it all the more… Read More Product Review: Burt’s Bees Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Cream