Products of the month April

Disclaimer: I PURCHASE EVERYTHING WITH MY OWN MONEY. I DO NOT DO THIS FOR MONETARY GAIN. I AM IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH THE COMPANIES WHOSE PRODUCTS I REVIEW. Okay I decide to start back doing my products of the month. I really enjoy doing them because I give my honest opinion on the items. This month I decided to do a review on beauty products. I have somewhat acne prone skin, especially around that time of the month. Using Coast bar sop on my face when I'm in the shower was causing my face to break out more and become very dry. In the past when I was younger and going to my dermatologist he prescribed some acne cream that dried my skin so bad that it was coming off in pieces, almost similar to what the Coast bar sop was starting to do. So since I dont wear makeup, just lip balm I wanted my face to look fresh and clean, without caking on tons of foundation to hide my acne blemishes. So one day I was at Walmart shopping and decided to give the Equate brade version of Dove sensitive skin body wash a try Let me just say that I am hooked! It is so sensitive on my skin and it does not dry my face out nor cause a breakout, like some other soaps can. All you need is a dime sized amount, lather it up in your hands and rub it on your face and then rinse it off. I also have been using Neutrogena Rapid Clear 2-in-1 Fight & Fade Toner on my face as well. I spray this on my face when I get done washing it. My fae looks so much better, even spots that were on my face from old blemishes are now gone. If I feel a breakout coming on I simply spray my face and within a day I may have only 1 pimple on my face. The price for the Neutrogen is about $6.50 and the body wash is about $3.50 that is not alot seeing how it will last for a long time. Update: I was finally able to upload the picture!!

We FINALLY started our garden!!

I can't believe that it has been a little over a month since I started my garden. I planted everything (except the eggplant & jalapeno transplants) in both beds on (3/22/12), but the very next day I had ants in bed #2. Apparently they were VERY hungry because the ate every seed I had planted, but left the transplants un-touched! I thought we (my sister & I) had did something wrong like planting the seeds too deep, but all the seeds were planted according to the pkg/book. So I thought well I have to find a solution to get rid of the ants first without the use of pesticides and chemicals, so after searching the net I found DIATOMACEOUS EARTH which is a non-toxic organic pesticide and it got rid of the ants in 2 days!! I did have to replant bed #2 (4/4/12), but I was glad because I was able to plant other things that I did not originally plant. And let me tell you, everything is growing so good. We had prayed over both beds when we first planted and gave them to God, even our church joined us in prayer (Matthew 18:20). I told my mom the other day that the garden is starting to look like its on steroids =) because it has grown so high and full. I had to prune some of the zucchini and squash vines because the were reaching out well over 2 feet out of the 4x4 beds. Not to mention my beans that are all over 5 feet tall!! Here are some pictures that were taken last month

This is #1 bed with the two jalapeno transplants!

This is bed #2 with the eggplant, romaine lettuce & bell pepper transplants!

Bed #1 maybe 3 weeks after planting seeds!

Bed #1 jalapeno plant!

This plantet box had strawberries in them, but they didnt seem to be doing anything so I pulled them out and replanted with corn to see how it does!