Control solution is a must when using blood glucose monitors. Several companies will give it away for free if you are an owner of their monitor, such as the brand I new now, ReliOn. But, when I used One Touch Ultra blood glucose monitors, I had to …

I adore Richard Simmons and his craziness. I think he is one of the most motivational weight loss gurus out there. My mom recently went to Salvation Army and purchased this video for me. I love it ! It has some GREAT tunes and he does easy steps. It’s …

I bought this face mask at Walgreens after reading so many positive reviews about them. It’s actually pretty hard to find since it took me a couple of trips to actually buy it, it gets out of stock really fast. This mask costs a little over $4 which is …

I have a friend in England who sends me care packages filled with things I cannot find here. When cold season rolled around, we somehow got into a discussion about cough drops (or cough sweets, as they call them) and lozenges that we remember growing up. The mention of …

When I purchased Phentramin-d, which was the time I tried to take Dexatrim. I do not have a good experience with Dexatrim not because it is not effective. It is effective in making me lose weight but I never experience the blocking of hunger. The worst part is the …

For a few days now, my shoulder pain was making feel quite uncomfortable and uneasy. The fact that I found it difficult to move or lift my hands with ease, performing my day to day chores became quite difficult and complicated. In this situation, using this product called Smart …

Since I was a teenager I have been dealing with the problems of getting a yeast infection about once a year. I hate dealing with them, and the medications always leave more irritation. My mother told me that she used to use iodine and it works well to stop …

I have been a believer in multi vitamins ever since seeing what a huge difference it made in how I felt. I developed fibromyalgia symptoms in my late teens, and went for several years with no clear diagnosis. In this time, I felt so exhausted that I could …

Our teeth is very important for us to chew the food properly. Chewing is the first process of digestion and so we should chew well the food that we are eating. So, our teeth must be taken cared of. We should brush our teeth everyday and three times a …

I have fibromyalgia, and have used many different types of topical creams and gels for pain. Most of the ones I tend to use are the menthol based products like Ben Gay, Mineral Ice, etc., that work as counter-irritants. Counter-irritants produce a warming or cooling effect on the skin, which …

When I was looking around for natural and environmentally friendly products in a Whole Foods market, I came across a fun little lip balm by a company called “One.” They call it “Lip Tune Up” and it comes in adorable, natural recyclable packaging. For the small tin, I …

While at the local health store, I came across Citric C Tabs. There are 90 tablets in the bottle. Each one is 1100 milligrams of Vitamin C. This is more than the recommended daily dosage for Vitamin C but there are other good ingredients in the Citric C Tabs.
I …

Knowing how much I love The Healing Garden’s Lavender Theraphy, my friend recently gifted me with Mandarin Theraphy Energizing Body Mist when I was having a lot of fatigue from lack of good sleep. She thought I could use a pick me up, and that’s what Mandarin Theraphy promised.
The …

I started getting sharp pains in my teeth about five months ago. I wasn’t sure if it was cavities or just sensitive teeth. I eat a lot of sweets, spicy and acidic foods but I do everything I can to take care of my teeth. My old toothpaste and …

When I was recently browsing the Primal Elements site looking for seasonal soaps and new items, I came across a soap I simply could not resist. Primal Elements makes beautiful loaf soaps with amazing inset designs, that are cut into slices to produce a work of art in soap making. …

This is one of the best lotions out there! Palmers cocoa butter lotion or creams are best known for treating stretchmarks after pregnancy, but I never really considered using this just for regular use! I know so many people are in love with this product, and I just had …

I bought this product to see if it would help me create a fluffier style with more body for the top portion of my hair, which is thinning. I also wanted some lift in the back portion so that it would make a wetter style at the ends look a …

This kit of eight different styling tools/accessories, and an instructional video was given to me for a Christmas present. Every one who knows me personally has probably heard me complain about my thinning hair, and the lady who bought me this kit was told that it worked best for thinner …

Last year I decided to start exercising more, and along with my new daily routine came more perspiration and body odor than I was accustomed to. In order to work my new plan into my day, it required me to do my workout in the afternoon, and I did …

An excellent community resource squandered due to poor management and appalling staff. RivMed offers general practitioners, a nurse and dental service as well as transport free to Aboriginal people.
As a patient at RivMed I was kept waiting for two and a half hours, being constantly lied to by …

My work at home and in the office required a lot of standing, which resulted in aching and tiring feet. Though I tried my best to remain standing for long hours, it would sometimes become difficult to avoid standing. This would hurt my feet and by the time I …

There is a product made by a doctor in Jackson, Tennessee called Dr. Miller’s Holy tea. I heard about it from a poster on an irritable bowel syndrome board where I frequented, looking for the latest advice and news on the condition. If you look up the name of …

My lips tend to get chapped very often. I use chapstick at least 5 times a day. If your someone who has dry, chapped lips daily, I reccomend using any Blistex product. My personal favorite is the Blistex Medicated Berry Balm.
This product seemed to work the fastest for me. …

The norstar BioMagnetic is nice and very good for health,it is easy and comfortable to use and at an affordable rate.
This Norstar BioMagnetic is a product from Vitalia Health Limited.Very well constructed and made for every one.
The exclusive grid polarization concentrates the Norstar’s field penetration in the body, …

I had a temporary job over Christmas where I had to take over from someone else’s shift and work on the same keyboard as them. Seeing as I noticed some of my colleagues had a habit of picking their noses and sneezing everywhere (yes, ewww!), that grossed me …

One of the reasons I like using this Sensodyne Pronamel mouthwash is because it seems to be pretty powerful but at the same time it is not too harsh. Some mouthwashes have that —˜blowing your head off’ effect when my eyes start to water and I am in …

For about $20 for 2 oz this mask is definitely worth the price. I know it sounds a lot and it is but this mask works perfectly. This balances out acne irritated skin. It also contains Balsam Peru which is a natural ant-inflammatory ingredient. This mask is used 2-3 …

While I was out of town, visiting a relative, I developed a really bad case of nausea and diarrhea. I think it was probably a reaction to something I ate, or it could have been viral. I only had some Tums with me and my prescription medicines, but they were …

Recently I started waxing my unwanted hair and we all know the burning sensation after stripping those hairs. Though I use towel soaked in a cold water to soothed that ached and its effective but still I want some cream that I could apply after I done waxing. A …

My husband is very good and very healthy. But his only problem is that whenever he goes to any other place or due to change of weather he catches the cold infection very soon. And whenever it happens he also suffers from the dry cough for several …

I have been to many eye exam places and some were bad and some were good but the City Opticians over in Springfield was actually a very good experience and I have no complaints about them at all, not one single complaint and this place left me very happy …

I like to keep myself healthy and alert throughout the day. I also wanted to make sure that I was getting essential vitamins so that I do not feel sluggish, or get sick too often. I wanted to get some vitamin c packets, because vitamin c always seems to …

I have orders Meladerm Whitening Cream a few months ago because I wanted to whiten my skin. I have used this for seven weeks so far and I can say that I am pleased with it because it is very effective. It comes in a bottle form, and it …

On August 2008, my weight was already 55 Kg, the heaviest as long as I live. And too bad, several days later my parents took me to an eleven days holiday trip to Singapore. As we all know that most of Singaporean are Chinese so they eat pork, and …

I have combination skin, and in the summer, I prefer to use a foaming cleanser. I have used a few 100% Pure products before, and I liked most of them. When I saw this product I was interested right away because I happen to love jasmine tea, whether green or …

I know that a lot of people all around the world have tried plenty of vitamins, but in my opinion there is one vitamin in particular in the market right now that has been around ever since the day that I was born, and that is the Flintstone Vitamins. …

I recently learned when I went to the dentist that I am a grinder! I often wondered why I would sometimes awake with a sore jaw and aheadache. The dentist told me these are signs of grinding , the most obvious sign is the wearing down of my teeth …

After my very first experience with bio oil, I have been hooked. For me this is the ultimate miracle oil for a wide variety of different skin problems and issues.
I was first recommended to try Bio Oil after being bitten on the face by an animal. The …

My backache always left me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable. My energy levels almost seemed to reduce by nearly 50%, thus affecting my work at home and office. This would leave me rather crippled and I would desperately keep trying out all the possible solutions (pain relieving creams, hot/ cold …

When I was running low on bar soaps at home, I ordered a few from the Uncommon Scents website. These soaps are called “Simple Scents” and are individually wrapped 7 oz bars that are made in Australia. I did not know what to expect as far as quality, but …

I take a regular multi vitamin daily to boost my general health, and I have been experimenting with different brands. I like the idea of the multivitamins that contain green foods, enzymes and probiotics. Since I have used Now Foods vitamins before, I wanted to try their version of this …

When I was younger, my family used to have bars of soap for use in the shower. When we first started using body wash, we bought the cheapest brand, which didn’t smell very good and wasn’t a great quality.
About a year ago we discovered Alpine X-treme body wash. …

This is an interesting product from GNC that I found when I was browsing the store one day. I like unusual flavors in oral care products and that is how it initially caught my eye.
These “ampules” contain a hydrogen peroxide based tooth polisher and whitener, and are for …

Organics Green Tea with Honey is a very refreshing beverage to have any time of the day. I even drink it at night sometimes, and it does not have the same effect of keeping me awake that other teas have often had on me. In fact, if …

Since I am diabetic, a friend of mine thought I might benefit from this brand carb blocker, that they have used supposedly with success– it is supposed to stop the digestion of starches by neutralizing alpha amalase, an enzyme which is used to digest starches. I still really do not …

I have fibromyalgia, and I have used many over the counter pain relief rubs, gels, and creams. One of my symptoms associated with the illness are parasthesias, which are abnormal sensations like tingling, pinging, burning, cold or tickling on the skin that are caused by faulty nerve signals. Capsaicin is …

I seem to always suffer from chapped, dry lips. None of my other lip balms in my collection seem to cut it for that extra amount of moisture, except for this.
Vaseline Lip Therapy is just that. It’s Vaseline that heals your lips. Sounds like a great idea, right? Well, …

I have an interesting hair combination. The front and top are thinning, but healthy. The back is a tumbleweed of frizzy, dry, and over-processed hair that I need to use various heat styling methods to transform into something that looks remotely human. I normally have a thermal protection spray that …

I have a variety of products and devices that I use to help relieve my back pain. I have had unexplained and undiagnosed back pain for over 15 years, and in that time, I have found certain things that hep it, and lots of things that don’t. …

I’ve went through several thermometers, most of them a regular sort of digital thermometers, and some more gadget-like such as frontal lobe thermometers or the ear variety. Perhaps the most common thermometer I have used, and one that I still have around the house in working condition is …