From the name of this blog, you might (correctly) surmise that I tend to pepper my dad with more questions about the products I use every day. But today I’m going to flip the switch and talk about a product that came recommended by my mom: Olay Complete Moisturizer Sensitive (SPF 15). She bought a two-pack of this at Costco, and liked it so much that she suggested that I start using it, too. When someone like my mom recommends something to you, you listen, because she has pretty high…

I think that free samples are one of the greatest things on Earth. One of my favorite things to do on weekends used to be going to Costco and snacking my way through the samples. So when I received a pack of belif truth moisturizing bomb in my last Sephora order, I was already prepared to love it. Read on to learn more about what ingredients might help this moisturizer support is claim to “retain moisture for up to 26 hours.”

The American in me is primed to feel like anything instantly gets glammed up once you slap a French name on it. “Escargot” sounds way more appealing than “snails,” and “merci” seems more refined than “thanks.” So it should probably come as no surprise that I always think of La Roche-Posay as a premium brand, even though it’s widely available in drugstores, and not terribly expensive.