Seasonal Scented Scrubs? Yes, Please!

I love the holidays! So many things come around this time a year. Eggnog, roasted turkey dinners with all the trimmings, and the scents of the season. I spent this past Saturday in our local mall at Bath and Body Works, Yankee Candle, and The Body Shop sniffing all of the amazing Holiday 2011 scents: Yummy peppermint, tasty gingerbread, homey evergreen and sage, and crisp winter snow. The body washes and scrubs smelled heavenly! Then I flipped over one of the tubs of scrub and almost choked on my holiday cheer. $25?!? O Holy Night they must be out of their holly jolly minds. So I carefully placed the jar back on the shelf and inhaled one more time before high-tailing it over to my favorite store, Target, where I scoured their bath and beauty shelves till I found a little gem: Burt’s Bees Cranberry & Pomegranate Sugar Scrub.

When I was working for the green cleaning company a year or so ago, I really got into the natural bath and body products, especially the salt and sugar scrubs. I liked them better than the scrubs that were made of walnut shells and other non-soluble ingredients.(Mostly because my husband, who’s a maintenance supervisor, would tell me about people clogging  their bathroom drains with that stuff!) This is a holiday scented sugar scrub from Burt’s Bees that’s 100% natural and OMG! It smells divine. There’s also a Replenishing Body Bar and Body Butter in the same scent as well.

When you open up the jar and peel back the foil, the scent that wafts up is heavenly. You instantly detect the scents of cranberry and pomegranate, but the shea butter that is also in there mixes in to make subtle chocolate undertones noticeable. The look of the scrub reminded me of a cranberry chutney puree I made one year for Thanksgiving.(It was tasty!) I…. uh… had my husband, HHH,  help me….”try” this scrub out because no matter how limber roller derby has made me, I cannot scrub my own back! (wink wink!) I have to say that after a thorough “scrubbing” with this yummy product, I was pleased as punch. The sugar crystals melted away and the pomegranate oil soaked in to my freshly exfoliated skin leaving it smooth and silky! I loved it! The husband liked the smell too. Sometimes the bath products I buy are a little too sweet or fruity smelling  for him, but he really like the scent and at $13 on the Burt’s Bees website or $12 from your local Tar-Jay, it’s a bit more affordable for those of us who have to keep our holiday budgets. Pick some up to brighten up your next holiday season shower!

A Twitter Contest: Win A Flip Video Camera

I recently participated in the Girlfriend Getaway Florida promotion for Chevy.  As part of that promotion, we were given a Camaro to drive and a Flip video camera so that we could make videos about our experiences with the car.  YAY!

Except?

I already have a Flip.

Yes, mine has less recording time than the brand spanking new one they gave me, but I’ve never had any complaints about what I’ve got.  And it seems awfully silly for me to have two Flips.

You see where this is going?

Yes, I’m going to give away the new Flip that was given to me.  The one that can record 120 minutes worth of video instead of 30.  The newer, shinier, slightly fancier version of the one I already have.  Because that’s how much I love you.

Well, OK, and because I want more people to follow me on Twitter.

What?  Yes. There are currently 2,987 people who follow @missbritt on Twitter.  I’d like to hit that magical 3,000 mark.  SO -

I’m going to bribe you to follow me on Twitter with the chance of winning a Flip video camera!

Here’s how it works.

To enter to win the brand new shiny Flip Video Camera:

1. Follow @missbritt on Twitter. (if you already do, good job! Move on to step 2.)

2. Tweet something with the hashtag #missbritt.  FOR EXAMPLE:

“I’m following @missbritt on twitter because she’s bribing me. #missbritt”

3. Each tweet counts as an entry. So, yes, you can tweet with the hashtag more than once. But, uh, I would probably advise you not to be too annoying with it because people will unfollow your ass for that kind of thing.

4. All tweets between right now and Monday at 9am EST with the hashtag #missbritt that come from an account that follows @missbritt will be entered into a random drawing.  Winner will be announced on Monday (hopefully!), so that I can bring the Flip with me to BlogHer if the winner is attending.  If you’re not attending BlogHer, I’ll ship it (but probably not until I get back.)

Good luck!!

(P.S. Like winning stuff?  If you live in Florida, you can enter to win your own girlfriend getaway by voting for me as your favorite Chevy Girl On The Go blogger.  Enter and vote here.)