Love Water: Soap Box Soaps

Today, the 22 of March is National World Water Day and Unify along with the lovely Ta'Kaiya Blaney invite us all to #lovewater at 3pm your local time. say a prayer, preform a ritual, contemplate what water means to you and why you love water. This global wave will kick off a year of action to save and protect water.

In honor of this I will be reviewing Soap Box Soaps a company that sells all natural soaps. They have a wide variety of hand soaps, body washes, and bar soaps. The great thing about Soap Box Soaps is that when you buy soap they donate clean water, vitamins, and soap to a child in need.

You can learn more about their movement and their amazing team HERE

 I ordered Black Body Wash from Soap Box. It's a bit on the pricey side, including shipping it cost me about $13 and I was a bit upset because I can buy other organic soaps much cheaper. It wasn't until i recieved my package that I realized $13 is a small price to pay...

Now here's a story about Soap Box Soaps:
My soap was taking a LOOONG time to arrive after I'd been notified it was shipped. Like 3 weeks. It was really bugging me because there was no reason for it to take so long and there had been no missed deliveries and I had the address correct. I was very upset to say the least. Well, out of no where at about 6 in the evening I received this:

Hi Tarina,

My name is Jason from SoapBox Soaps and am contacting you because of an issue with your last order, #8064 (1 Black Body Wash). Your package came back as return to sender due to nobody at this address by your name. I just wanted to confirm the correct address before i resend your Black Body Wash. The address i have is:

Please let me know if this is correct or if you have another address you would like for me to ship your order to. Thanks for your support!

Best,

Jason 

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Jason Rosen

Graphic Design

SoapBox Soaps

jason.rosen@soapboxsoaps.com

301.442.7641

:D I was very  happy to say the least so I replied thanking him and apologizing for the inconvenience. I gave him another address to send the package to and thanked him again. Not even an hour later I received:

Tarina, no inconvenience at all! I just wanted to make sure your package got to you. Thanks for the quick response, I will try to get your package sent back out to you today!

Best,

Jason 

Sent from my iPhone

I cannot say I have ever been more satisfied with customer service as I was when I read that email. Soap Box really does care about their customers and they just earned a life long one! 
 Now about the soap itself. I love this soap. It is all natural which means no synthetic detergents, dyes, or chemicals. I can tell the difference. It doesn't dry my skin as much as regular body washes but I feel clean after using it. 
My friends and I couldn't figure out what 'Black' smelled like but once i used it in the shower it really started to smell like licorice. It's clearly the 'mens scent' but I like it. 

 All in all I LOVE Soap Box Soaps and what they are doing to help save the world one purchase at a time. They really do help the consumer mae a difference with our everyday purchase. It really is worth the extra money. 

In honor of National World Water Day (a bit of an oxymoron) head over and purchase some hand soap which provides clean drinking water for a child in need. The body wash provides vitimins and the bar soap provides soap.

Final Verdict:  Life long Customer!

Hipster Deck Box

My collection of Magic: The Gathering decks is growing and my lovely old tin deck box is just too small now. I don't want multiple boxes because that gets annoying so what does one do in this situation?

Upcycle of course!

I may or may not end up removing the label but for now it's fine. Living green doesn't always mean buying 'green' stuff, sometimes it's just using what you already have :)

Cat Treats! Boundless Nutrition Vanilla Almond OatMega Bar

Boundless Nutrition is a natural healthy food manufacturer and distributor based in Austin Texas. We are proud to be a family owned and operated business. We currently offer the Oatmega 3 Wellness bars and the Perfect FIT Protein Cookies. -BoundlessNutrition.com


This Boundless Nutrition OatMega bar came in Januarys Conscious Box and has been in the 'To Be Reviewed' pile for a while...I ate it a bit ago. This is going to be a short one.
 Now i am NOT the Food Reviewer and there is a reason for that; I'm bad at describing what I'm eating but I'll give it my best shot!
This bar tasted like a rice crispies treat that someone just kept adding flavor to until it wasn't good anymore. That's all i have, sorry... 
BUT!
I discovered that my cats LOVED this bar. They went crazy for it, it was so cute. 

The blonde is Blues, the other is Jazz. Jazz is notorious for wanting human food but even Blues wanted this bar, I ended up breaking off pieces for them to eat. 

Okay that's it for this one. It's a crappy review.

Final Verdict: I have no use for this product but the cats love it.

Nappy Days: Rafa Natural Detangling Comb

I have SO much to do! Seriously guys...I am so backlogged with reviews I might just post a few all at once. I tried recording a video review of this comb but my voice was so distorted that I gave up.

 Todays review is of Rafa Naturals Detangling Comb. I have misplaced my photos from the unpacking but it looked exactly like it does on the site. I bought this comb because my friend broke my favorite Goody hairbrush and I thought to myself...It would be a great opportunity to try out some organic combs.
I came across Rafa Naturals in a Google search and was very impressed with their beauty products.

"Our mission is to provide natural, organic products for your bath, body and home that look beautiful, smell amazing and are packaged in phthalate free  and BPA-free packaging.  We also make our products affordable so our customers don’t have to take out a 2nd mortgage to be naturally beautiful."

I didn't expect too much from this comb when I ordered it; in my 20 years on this planet I have only found 1 brush that has tackled my curls and come out the victor. Most combs and brushes break my hair, get tangled in it, pull out my curls, and are all around bad for me. With this history I want you to know I went into this expecting to not be happy with the combs performance but willing to admit that the problem was my hair and still give the comb a fair review....

The brace pulling off after the first use

I'm just going to cut to the point and say that this comb is barely worth the $5 plus shipping it cost. My first impression was that the comb was flimsy, it bent with minimal pressure and I felt it would snap in my hands with just a small amount of force. The teeth are not spaced wide enough but are wide themselves making it hard for them to get into the hair. There are 4 seams on the comb were separate pieces of wood were joined, only one of those failed...the most important one. The 'brace' of the comb slid right off after the first 2 uses, followed by a snapped tooth and then the entire thing broke in half in my hands!
Every time I used this comb it got tangled in my hair and pulled and ripped the curls out. I tried very hard to be easy on this comb by finger combing my hair thoroughly and putting TONS of deep conditioner in before using it. I am willing to admit that I should not have gotten this comb wet but did, I comb my hair in the shower to preserve the curls and this comb warped after only 2 showers.

I know I ask a lot of my combs and brushes but i only asked one thing of this detangling comb...that it live up to it's name and it couldn't do that. It ripped my hair, got tangled in it, and broke under slight pressure even when I went out of my way to give it the best chance it had to do even a mediocre job on my hair. I honestly wouldn't reccommend this comb to anyone but if you do want to try it I suggest you have silky straight hair; if you require any actually tangle control this comb is NOT for you.

Final Verdict: I will not buy again