As thanks to our fantastic SkinGym community, I am offering a chance to win a one-year supply of your favourite product! Join the SkinGym blog today and tell me about your preferred product and why you cannot live without it. If you have more than one, which I certainly do, please share. Each post will receive a ballot. Contest starts today and runs until December 31, 2010. We will draw the lucky winners name on January 2, 2011. Make sure to check out my blog posting that day!
Todays’ post was written by Virginia S. Broadbent (Green Chemist & Ecopreneur)
Tags: contests, skin care, skin care products, SkinGym, Win with SkinGym
eye cream, aloe and geranium morning + night cream, soaps
I love all of the products I have tried from the Skin Gym.It is so hard to choose which one I like the best, I know that this time of year (winter)my face can’t get enough moisture and would always feels dry Virginia said to try the avocado and geranium daily moisturizer.It is by far the best I have tried and doesn’t leave my face feeling greasy,and lasts all day.
Thanks Virginia
I love all your products so it was very hard to pick but I love the rose day cream and of course your salts are amazing and your soaps, are great too. I now have my husband and both my girls using your products. Thanks Lynn
i love the black soap and the geranium day cream
My all time favorite is the African black soap. I’ve used it for about 2 years and it work amazingly! I also love the night and eye cream. I have my sisters and mom in Ontario hooked on the skin gym products. I love them!
Laura
African Black Soap
I also am a fan of the african soap
I absolutely LOVE the Fijian Peony Berry Whipped Body Souffle! It smells good enough to eat and I smell like a flower all day when I put it on. This is definitely my favorite product!
Where do I start!!! I would have to say Velvet Rose is my favorite product. Since starting to use it I have found, and others have commented, that my skin has never looked better. I am a accutane victim, after being on that horrible drug for six months, it left my skin looking and feeling old. After visiting with Virginia she put me on a healthy facial regime with the following products:Creme Brulee Facial Cleanser, Belle Revitalizing Facial Tonic, Velvet Rose Daily Moisturizer and the best eye cream I have ever used!!! I noticed a difference immediately!!! now I am addicted, ADDICTED!!! I also spoil myself with a beautiful Naturelle Facial Scrub and Libra Queen of Balance Facial Mask, which I highly recommend everyone use, my boyfriend does weekly facials with me and now uses Virginia’s amazing products and is hooked as well. All her body scrubs and cremes I have used have left my skin both looking and smelling absolutely outstanding. I truly can’t say enough great things about Virginia and her Skin Gym creations.
Virginia, I love every product I’ve tried and have purchased many for gifts to rave reviews. I’ve also brought friends into the store so they can meet you and experience first-hand what makes your business so wonderfully unique. I just came in on the weekend and purchased a new product for me, the facial toner, and Ric stopped by on Sunday to pick up a ‘fresh from the blender’ new supply of daily face creme, I believe it’s the one with the coffee and cocoa ingredients. Sorry I can’t recall all the ingredients in this one. But, I love it, of course. I also have the small dropper bottle of facial oils and love the facial scrub as well. My friends are hoping for a shampoo with patchouli as one of the ingredients. Thank you for making such beautiful and amazing products right here in Bragg Creek! See you soon for Christmas shopping!!
What is there not to love ???? I love it all . For myself, I love the lavender facial scrub. For my family, my favourite product are the baby line , especially the bottoms up cream and the boo boo butter. We use it on all cracked skin and owies and everything is better by morning. Keep it up!!!
I am addicted to Skin Gym products! My absolute favourite is the Fijian Peony Berry Whipped Cream. If I was stranded on a desert island my one and only product would have to be the Eye Bright cream.
First off I want to say what the best party of skin gym is…Virginia!
I came across Skin Gym on a day trip to Bragg Creek and started out with the hemp seed oil. It did not take long for me to want to try more, but i never could find the time to drive from Calgary. So one day I phoned Virginia up and began a 20 minute discussion on the type of products I wanted and what she had that i might like. I ended up ordering over the phone 6 products..never touching..smelling or seeing the products. I can say I was quite worried i would not be satisfied but everything she picked out for me was unreal! (received them the next day in mail) I am now addicted and will not use another product line.
I now have:
Plantain + Aloe Facial Scrub
Belle Tonic
Hemp Seed oil
Avacado + Geranium moisturizer
Eye Bright
Rose Water and Watermelon Day moisturizer
Mud Mask
If I had to only pick one (which is very very difficult because they are all amazing) I would have to pick the Rose Water and Watermelon moisturizer and the main reason is because it does not burn my eyes during HOT YOGA! Any other moisturizer would always burn my eye’s and I would constantly have to stop and wipe my eyes, any one that had ever done yoga you understand how irritating it is to keep having to break pose.
The Skin gym moisturizer is light but my face does not feel dry half way through the day, it absorbs perfectly into the skin with out leaving a shiny glossy look and a little goes along way. In fact I just ran out today and begged my wonderful boyfriend to pick me up some while he was on his way back into Calgary. I can not express how happy I am that I found a natural skin care line that never disappoints, next step is to get all my friends and family on board!
Thanks Skin Gym
I love the Lip Balms, Black Soap and Body Butter.
the feeling and taste the lip balm leaves on my lips is memorable, its amazing.. I have never loved a lip balm more.
The Black Soap is great for faces. Clears them right up
The Body Butter leaves my skin radiating.
It is beautiful in smell, easy to spread and doesn’t leave an oily residue or a request for more 20 min later. Its Perfect what a balance and masterpiece.
Love Virginia and Love Skin Gym.. cant wait for the store to be in Calgary.
Dear Skin Gym,
After carefully reading the above statement, Taking a moment to provide you with a elaborate and thoughful response, I’ve come to one conclusion, that my face would not be as considerably moisturized without your Cocoa infused Tahitian Creme.
Leaving me to believe that not only are you a genious, you might as well in fact be a skingym god/legend.
The End.
Yours Truly,
Yakob.
Dear V,
I love every product that I have used of yours! Every time I have been inside your store I want to try it all but have to hold off on buying your whole store!
I Love Love Love your lip balms. I have never loved a lip balm more, how it makes my lips feel and smell after.
I also love your bath salts. The Christmas smelling ones I received one year.
Another product I love especially during the summer to moisturize my dried up feet from the warm weather and flip flops is the cream for my feet with the cute little booties. Every time I put on the cream and the booties before bed my feet come out silky smooth the next morning.
I Love all your products Virginia, can’t wait till I am in Calgary so I can take a trip out to Bragg Creek to see you and buy some more. If not I will have to order some from you for delivery!
Being the one of the longest running customers of Virginias wonderfully crafted skincare, I have a difficult time trying to choose just one product as a favorite. Her face care line has de-aged me easily 10 years, I couldn’t imagine living with out it. But when it comes to my favorite I am absolutly in love with her new creams that smell like cherry, they are amazing!
Love Virginia! Love Skin Gym!
I tried the lip balm and loved it!!!! I am keen to try out some more product!!!
This product is the best lip balm on the planet. Totally addicted to it!
My husband and I can’t live without the african black soap. It is so pure and clean you can use it until it completely disappears!
My fiancé, who normally hates using products on his face, absolutely loves Invisible Silk. If he runs out of this product he refuses to substitute any other. I am also a large fan of the Invisible Silk and I must also note the Woodlands Cream as another of my favourites!
I absolutely LOVE the eye cream… it has been my best find ever!!!! I have got so many of my friends using it now!!!
I also love the day cream that smells like coconut/ chocolate.. how fun to wear yummy stuff on your face!!!
I love your products, the soap is amazing, the shea butter is exquisite — creamy and lightly scented, the face wash is moisturizing, the lip balm is the best product on the market.
So picking out my favorite product is a tough question. I think my favorite is the new shea butter.
I was just introduced to the Fujian Peony Berry Shea Butter and the shea butter lip balm. I am absolutely loving both! I have really dry skin, especially in the winter. Both products are very gentle and allow my lips and skin to absorb the moisture. I can’t wait to try other products, especially after reading other people’s replies!
I enjoy using skin gym products as they are one of the most refreshing and revitalising cream that I have ever used. The best part is – they are not tested on animals. My favourite product has to be the ‘Fijian Peony Berry’ cream.
Hi Virginia,
My favorite products are the eye cream, velvet rose and African soap, but my absolute “new” favorite has to be the Belle Tonic!! Every time you “re-make” the tonic, it just gets better and better! I love the Roiboos and other new inredients that you’ve added to it. It is like an “elixir” and my face just drinks it up!! I think it even helps to absorb the moisturizer better!
And my other favorite, for really dry skin (especially in the winter, before you go out and enjoy your outdoor activities) is to put on some hemp oil and then moisturize with your fave day cream!
Thank you for being so considerate of the environment and to what we put on our skin!!
I began using Skin Gym products shortly after the shop opened in Bragg Creek, and have not used anything else on m,y face since! I have sensitive, dehydrated skin, and have put so many products on my face over the years that have either made the issues worse, or simply been a waste of money. Once I tried the Avocado Geranium face cream, I was totally in love..then I tried Velvet Rose…it is difficult to choose between the two as to which would be my fav.
I have introduced many friends to Virginia’s products so that they too can experience a beautiful skin transformation.
Looking forward to the new face line!!
I’m hooked! From my first small pot of “eye bright” there was no turning back. The latest for me (among many others) is the new of version “Velvet Rose” with Roiboos tea. Wow. Now I can’t decide between that and the “Avacado and Geranium” I loved before!! One of the things I admire about Virgini, is that she is always looking for ways to improve her line! And she tells you why, no secret recipes here! There is no other other product that touches my skin, from African soap shampoo to the new “Saythai” body whip. I spray the “Belle” revitalizing tonic on my face during the day, and I plan to take some with me on the plane to the UK with gifts for my mum and sisters. Even the new babies in the UK and Scotland receive the diaper cream and “Boo boo” cream. thank you virginia.
I LOVE the Avocado and Geranium face cream!!! I am one of those few “lucky” women who has both zits and wrinkles and this cream moisturizes without blocking my pores or leaving an oily residue. This is a product that I would contiune to use indefinitely!!!
I have many favorite Skin Gym products- but I would absolutely love to use the Fujian Peony body butter on a regular basis. I love the smell and you can’t beat the texture- it’s perfect!