My good friend Shannon, aka Lotion Bar Bunny, at A Girl’s Gotta Spa, is calling out to all spa lovers to host an online show for her Country Bunny products. I have used her wonderful shea butter, and her scrub, and they are both GREAT products. If you haven’t tried them, I highly recommend you do, as Shannon is a great gal, and my experiences with her and with her products have been nothing less than excellent.

Here is her plea:

The Purpose: My 3 growing weeds need clothes for back to school.

The Request: 10 wonderful readers who will hold an online Country Bunny Bath & Body show before August 18th with sales that equal $200. You can live anywhere in the United States to do this because everything ships direct to those who place an order.

What’s in it for you: FREE stuff.

Oh you want to know what FREE is? I guess I shouldn’t hold out on that. When your show equals $200, you–my beloved hostess– will receive $20 in free products, one product ($30 or less) for half price and free shipping. Value= $40

Is that all? Then you–my beloved hostess–will be entered to win Country Bunny Bath & Body’s August Special for free. Value= $107.50

Contact Shannon if you are interested in helping her out (and helping yourself out in the process!).

If you have been reading eBeautyDaily for long, you probably know of my love affair with all things Shea Butter. But if not, I truly do love it - I have never seen anything that can heal dry skin like Shea Butter can. I have this horrid chair in my office, pleather, with armrests - well, as you can imagine, with all the work I do online (write a passel of blogs, web site development, Channel Editor for b5media), my arms are on that chair for about 14 hours a day. If you sit in luxurious pleather, you know what I’m talking about - I have about a 3-inch area on the underside of my forearm, starting at the elbow, where my arm lays day after day, hour after hour, on my chair arms. This area can quickly turn in to crusty super-dry skin in a heart beat, and as opposed to getting my butt out of the chair (never!), or a luxurious sheep skin chair cover (hint hint honey) a little Shea Butter ALWAYS does the trick.

Well, with all that as a precursor, I received the most wonderful Shea Butter to try - Purely Shea. Now, with my recent post about organics and how that makes *not* such a big difference in your cosmetics, Shea Butter is a product obtained directly from a plant, and this is indeed something that you would not want to be pollluted with pesticides, and might actually have a potential of contamination. Purely Shea is a Canadian product and is certified organic by ECOCERT Canada, and this is, as Martha would say, a good thing.

This, from the company:

Purely Shea shea butter:

* Is extracted WITHOUT the use of dangerous chemicals, hexane, fertilizers or toxic pesticides
* Has NOT been bleached and maintains its natural pale yellow/beige color
* Has NOT been chemically processed in any way and therefore contains an extremely high level of healing and therapeutic factors.

Sounds pretty great eh? It is. The biggest difference I can see with this product and other shea Butter products I have tried is the fact that it melts a whole lot easier. It also has the natural Shea Butter scent, which is hard to describe, but very pleasant and mild. Here is the page where Purely Shea talks about all of the features and benefits of Shea Butter, there are too many to describe here, but if you want to learn more about it beyond my - “It works!” - this is a great place to start. I guess I should write more on that, but thats something for the future. Purely Shea sells for $19.50 for a very nice sized 3.5 ounce tub. A great value - this should last you a good while, even using it daily! As always, let me know your opinions if you have tried Purely Shea!