Last week, Bio Oil hosted a luncheon for top beauty bloggers, where we learned about the origin of the product, its uses, and why it actually is pretty darn unique.
The lunch/lecture was presided over by the absolutely fantastic Dr. Ilyse Lefkowicz, a NYC-based dermatologist, who explained Bio-Oil is made from PurCellin Oil, a recreation of the preen gland oil of ducks.
During preening, a duck secretes oil from its preen gland and distributes it over its entire plumage in the familiar twisted-neck action that one often associates with ducks – doing this creates a thin, non-greasy layer on the surface of …read more

Of all three, the latest and more novel of the lot is the addition of the Neutrogena Body Oil in my beauty stash. And since I’ve already written something on the Facial Scrub and, of course, the Alcohol-Free Toner, I thought it best to put the spotlight on the (sort of) newbie.
This isn’t the first time I’ve used the Body Oil, in fact, it was first introduced to me by my friend Bunny when we did an overnight-er in a condo in Ortigas (that was, like, around 1996). I fell in love with it and had bought a bottle of …read more

Imagine taking a long luxurious bath or a refreshing long shower, I’m sure part of you would wish the experience wouldn’t end, yeah? Personally, I love the feeling that a shower or bath leave on me, which somehow made me wish I knew some way to trap all that in.
I toyed with Baby Oils when I was younger and I had given Neutrogena’s Body Oil a go a few years back, though, I had found it greasy. I don’t want that “oily” feeling underneath my clothes or the idea that oil gets absorbed by the fabric I’m wearing. Gah.
Then …read more