Who doesn’t want to look their best? I don’t know any women who don’t, and that’s how mirra was born. Mirra has natural ingredients such as olive oil, aloe leaf juice, and cranberry. The best part is that they also use scientific technologies to make sure that their products are some of the best on the market. For example, they use oleosome emulsion technology to deliver long lasting moisture that keeps protecting and nourishing your skin long after you put it on (which is something I personally need because I have consistently dry skin).

I was given a basket of products to try at my house.  My favorite products have to be the shampoo and conditioner though.  Coming out of the bottle, it does smell a little perfumey.  However, once you wash your hair with it, you aren’t smelling it the rest of the day (which is something that my husband likes.  He doesn’t want his hair to smell like anything especially if it’s sweet smelling).  The conditioner makes my hair nice and soft, so I do like that too.  The body lotion was non greasy and the day cream was awesome.

Since I like these products, I have arranged for one lucky winner of mine to win some of these beauty products also!  Here’s what you need to do:

Tell me what beauty product you need!  Is it your moisturizer?  Your hair gel?  Your special lotion?  Or is it something else?

Each of these gives you one additional entry:
1. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify. Or use something like this:

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I was provided with the products listed in my review by The Kroger Company as part of Global Influence Network. All opinions are my own. Please see my Disclosure Policy for more information.

Even wonder what life is like on other planets?  Planet 51 answers that question for us!  American astronaut Chuck Baker (Dwayne Johnson) lands on a planet that is suppose to be lifeless.  Instead, Planet 51 is home to aliens (which oddly enough looks like 1950s America).  To make matters worse, the aliens think he is an alien and that there is going to be invasion.  Lem (Justin Long) is the only one who believes Chuck comes in peace and helps him get back to his ship.

Since I know my readers love a great kids movie, I have arranged to give away one copy of Planet 51.  Here’s what you need to leave a comment telling me:

What is your favorite kids movie and why?

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New to the social media world? Want to understand why Twitter, Facebook et al. is good for business?  Want to fine tune what you are already doing online and enhance your marketing?  Then, Friends With Benefits is for you.  I have to admit this is a book for more of the beginner crowd.  That being said, it is extremely well written, and at a level that almost anyone can understand (as long as you already know how to get online).

Friends With Benefits isn’t a book just on Twitter and Facebook (however big they are, there is more to social media than just those two companies).  This book covers everything from RSS (what it is, why you care, etc), corporate blogging, and social media new releases.  It even goes into how to approach bloggers.

This is where my first criticism comes in.  You can’t paint bloggers with one stroke.  The theme over and over in this book is that bloggers shouldn’t be paid for their work.  And yes, it is work.  The time I spend reviewing your product is time away from my family and other things I could be doing.  As someone who sometimes does get paid for reviewing prodcuts, I take offense to a book telling people not to pay bloggers.  Something else they left out is that if you send a blogger a product to review, don’t expect them to send it back.  Most bloggers have a policy on their site explaining how they do reviews.  Take care to read it, so you both know what to expect.  A personal request of my own is that if you send me a product make sure you put some marketing materials in with the product.  Sometimes bloggers get so many products that we often don’t know who they came from.  Make it easy for the blogger to contact you back with a review or questions.

The section on spammers is great.  I think marketers often forget that they are talking to real people and we don’t appreciate being addressed as “Dear Webmaster”.  The list they provide definitely makes you do a double take on your own behavior.  There is also a chapter about defin­ing suc­cess and return on invest­ment (ROI) which are the holy grails of social media mar­ket­ing.  They ask the question of how you define suc­cess.  If you don’t know your end goal, how do you know if your campaign was successful?  Are you inter­ested in brand-building? Grow­ing traf­fic? Con­ver­sion to sales? Social media men­tions? Increased buzz? How are you going to do this? Mon­i­tor­ing? Lis­ten­ing?  I love how they go into how to respond when you find bloggers talking about you or your product.  However, I wish they would have went one step further with it.  When working with clients, if I find a blog post about them that we like, I often send it to social media sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.  Not only does it give the blogger more visitors, it gets more eyeballs on my clients product.

If you are looking to dabble in social media, Friends with Benefits is a must read for you.  It is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time on the social media field.

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If you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you know that I am allergic to life itself. I’ve posted about my various allergies to everything many times, so I am always on the lookout for products that won’t give me (or my kids) hives.  Organic Baby’s Calming Bubble Bath does the trick for me.

The Calming Bubble Bath has both aloe vera and shea butter to help keep your skin from getting too dry.  It’s also tearless, so no more tears if they somehow get this in their eyes (and somehow they kids always end up with getting things in their eyes in the tub).  The lavender and sweet orange should also calm your kids down (it never seems to work with mine though – lol).  I love what this bubble bath does not have — no sodium lauryl/laureth sulfates, no parabens, no DEA, no TEA, and no MEA, no petroleum/mineral oils/phthalates, no artificial colors, no artificial fragrances, and no nut oils, no gluten, no soy, and no dairy.  It is also certified organic too!

I’ve arranged for one of my lucky readers to try out this Calming Bubble Bath.  Here’s what you need to do:

Tell me which Organic Baby Product you are interested in.

Each of these gives you one additional entry:
1. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify. Or use something like this:

Win Organic Baby Calming Bubble Wash from @blm03.  Enter here: http://lisareviews.com/2009/12/16/organic-baby-calming-bubble-wash/

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This post was written as part of a program for Family Review Network and Fresh Organic Baby, who provided the products for review & giveaway. I was not compensated in any way except for the complimentary product.

This giveaway is now over. The winner is missdenise. Congrats!

You may have noticed the Beauty Tip Of The Day widget on my sidebar. This is a great way to learn some new tricks to help you look younger and more beautiful. The tip changes daily, so you can definitely get some good advice. That being said, I know that everyone has their own secret beauty tips that they do. For me, I’d have to say my beauty tip is to add concealer under your eyes to help get rid of bags/shadows. It’ll make you look much more awake than you really are sometimes (and nobody needs to know you’ve been out all night!).

The sponsor of the widget is Unilever and I have worked with them, so one of my lucky readers will win their own box of Unilever products so you too can try out some of these beauty tips (MSRP $30. It will include include a product from Vaseline, Pond’s, Dove and Q-tips among other things). Here’s what you need to do:

To enter, tell me your favorite beauty tip!

Each of these gives you one additional entry:
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