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Burning Tree Creations Body Butter

I love to introduce my readers to new beauty brands, so I was thrilled to get the opportunity to sample the deliciously scented body butters by Burning Tree Creations.

Located in Boulder, Colorado, Burning Tree Creations is independently-owned and dedicated to providing unique products using only the finest (and environmentally friendly) ingredients. Perhaps one of my favorite things about this brand is how FEW ingredients they use in their body butters! Shea butter, essential oils, beeswax and Vitamin E are the main ingredients used to soften the skin!

I had the opportunity to sample many of the scented body butters sold by Burning Tree Creations. The first of which was Vanilla Orange Spice which retails for $24.99. The body butter seems to have a candle-wax consistency at first, but once your fingers come into contact with the body butter, it melts into a thick creamy consistency. When I first applied it, my skin appeared oily. I immediately assumed the worst, but a few minutes later, the butter had absorbed completely into my skin leaving not a trace of oil… only a sweet creamsicle-like scent.

Off-label use alert! This body butter also makes an excellent overnight hand treatment for dry and chapped hands!

Burning Tree Creations offers a collection of smaller versions of each of their holiday scents, called the Holiday Memories Gift Set for $16.99. Containing Pumpkin Pie Spice, Candy Cane, Egg Nog and Evergreen… this giftable set has a scent for everyone!

Hair Mystery!

Well, I finally sampled the new shampoo and conditioner provided by the Hair Mystery team… I’m a fan of the product. The scent is amazing, and it left my hair extremely sleek and soft. If you haven’t checked it out yet, do! The brand behind the product will be announced on December 17th on the Ellen show.

Philosophy On Sale

This NEVER happens… select philosophy products are currently on sale at Sephora. CLICK HERE to head over to Sephora, then enter "sale" in the search box to find the goods! Other steals include Becca gloss for only $5.50.

Stocking Stuffer Suggestion #18, Kevyn Aucoin Beauty Column Of Color

Kevyn Aucoin Beauty Collection, Column Of Color, The Raging Rouge Beauty Blog Stocking Stuffer Suggestions The beauty world will always miss Kevyn Aucoin… but his legacy lives on in the hearts of his fans and his fabulous products like this Column Of Color. Five fantastic glosses stack together in a sleek tower for glamour on the go. What a sophisticated stocking stuffer!

Kevyn Aucoin’s Column of Color retails for $45 at Neiman Marcus.

OPI Russian Collection

My regular readers will remember my post about OPI changing its enamel formula to remove DBP, Toluene and Formaldehyde. For those of you newer to Raging Rouge, here’s a quick summary to get you up to speed. I love–and I mean love–OPI nail enamel. I owned over 40 bottles of it prior to the formula change. After reading about the alleged harm these three chemicals can have (particularly on an unborn child), I decided to purge polishes including these three ingredients from my collection. Luckily for OPI lovers, OPI has revamped it’s enamel formula to exclude these ingredients!

I recently had the opportunity to sample the Russian Collection by OPI. Naturally, Raging Rouge (a lover of all things red) couldn’t resist St. Petersburgandy, a deep wine shade of red (pictured at left). To test the new formula fully (and much to the protests of my manicurist) I used no base coat and no top coat… just the polish. The verdict? OPI’s new formula provided an 8-day chip free manicure! Amazingly, my pedicure looked salon fresh after a whopping 2 weeks. OPI has managed to remove the nasty trinity of chemicals, but never compromised on quality.

The colors in the Russian Collection are sinful and decadent, just like the land of vodka and caviar that inspired them! I’m loving the edgy colors included in the collection like Midnight in Moscow that even a 30-something can pull off. OPI experiments by combining a charcoal color with a maroon glimmer… resulting in an almost-black chocolate-bar brown shade. Delicious! Be sure to check out the Russian Collection at OPI (each bottle retails for $7.50), and while you’re there, check out the Holiday in Hollywood collection, introduced for the holidays!