I have had irritable bowel problems for years, now complicated by medications that I take as well. I have to use laxatives at times, and my doctor had me try several different types before settling on one I can use regularly.
One of the most “memorable” was sorbitol. Most …

My dad is diabetic and had a hypoglycemic attack last year. He has medicines so we didn’t really monitor his blood sugar until the attack happened. My sister decided to buy him the One Touch Ultra Blood Glucose Monitoring System so that we will no longer worry about his …

I once went through a phase where my scalp was itchy and irritated. It happened after a professional hair coloring treatment, and lasted about a month. Some chemical in the colorant must have really upset my scalp, because I had itching, flaking, and little bumps to pop up periodically. No …

Horlicks Original drink mix has become a habit for me from childhood onwards. A glass of hot milk mixed with Horlicks drink mix before going to bed at night is more like a routine. As a child I liked the taste of this mix. When I grew up I …

I had never really worried about exercising while away from home before I started traveling for work on a frequent basis. I decided to look for some portable exercise equipment that I could pack and use while in a hotel when I didn’t have time to either use the …

I love this gadget! The Oral-B Triumph is a rotating toothbrush that is really unique. I decided to get one because my dentist said I wasn’t brushing my teeth well enough. The first time I used this toothbrush I fell in …

When I was away from home and completely forgot to bring my dental floss, I shared a container of floss with a traveling companion. It was the TePe oral health CareSoft dental tape.
I have used Glide dental tape and several other brands. I was a little hesitant to use it …

I tend to suffer with motion sickness if I have to go onto any boat, even a ferry. Most of the time, I have Dramamine or a similar medicine to take and this prevents and stops the nausea and dizziness quite well. When I went through a phase of not …

I’ve been taking fiber supplements for a long time to help regulate my system and also help with hunger control and weight loss. When I mentioned this to a GNC employee while discussing diabetes supplements, he told me about apple pectin as a source of fiber. Apple pectin …

I cannot spend time in the sun unprotected because of a medical condition. When everyone else has a goegeous tan, I am white as a sheet.
This year I decided to try something new—“ self tanners. I asked around and a lot of people had their own favorite brands, …

I enjoy taking a nightly bath to help treat the pain and cramps of fibromyalgia, and very often I use bath salts, because of the high mineral content. This helps to draw out toxins from the body, and also to add magnesium to the water which may benefit the muscles …

During my regular shopping sprees to the supermarkets, I happened to set my eyes on a diet shelf which happened to stocked up different kind of energy bars and shakes. Though I hadn’t tried any of these earlier, I decided to give it a try and picked up an …

Equate: Sport Spf 30 Sunscreen Lotion seems to work just fine. I have used it on multiple occasions and I never really seem to have any sunburns on my body. Now I burn fairly easily, even when I am not out in the sun for too long, so sunscreen …

On last week we had gathering of our old friends. As we are friends since long, our discussion also was long. We talked lots about family, profession, health and many personal things. Like other topics we also share our experiences …

After enjoying my Prevention Fitness Systems Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss DVD a few weeks ago, I thought Id try their Express Workout: Dance it Off, with Jennifer Galardi.
Since I already own several dance workouts that feature Latin and Hip Hop Styles, I was …

I don’t actually have athlete’s foot, at least I don’t think I do, but my feet do suffer from flaking, itching and dryness now that I have moved to a dry climate. I did a bit of research, and since those are the same symptoms as athlete’s foot, I …

Taking prescription medications sometimes means sacrificing healthy hair causing it to be very dry, brittle and very damaged. I take every precaution to not damage it anymore by not using any unnecessary appliances or products that will further ruin my hair. A women’s hair makes or breaks their day …

I went to Planned Parenthood of Dover, NJ for a medical exam and information on birth control.
When I went in, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I have read Christian and pro-life pamphlets that painted Planned Parenthood in a bad light, seeming to imply that they don’t care all …

Backache and muscle pain gives me a hard time to sleep. Being tired at work and doing the house hold chores gives me this body ache. I usually experienced a body pain in the morning when I woke up. But since I found out this Extra strength Efficasent oil, …

As young boy growing up with a mother who is a Pharmacy graduate of the University of Sto. Tomas in the Philippines, I was well informed about substances, their use and their sources. One such substance which is very basic in relation to health and wellness especially for children …

I have another facial masque manufactured by Queen Helene that I have been using for a while to help care for my combination skin. The other product was okay, but I decided to try this one to see if it would be more effective at minimizing the appearance …

As a pharmacy manager and a writer, my jobs usually occupy most of my time and leave me with no time to exercise. I usually feel the tension all over my body due to stress. One afternoon after work, I did not feel like going home to write or …

After trying a dry shampoo made by Klorane, I was a bit skeptical about trying their other products. Ironically, it was the friend who recommended the Klorane dry shampoo who I inherited a half a bottle of this product from. She liked the dry shampoo, and I did not …

I have been a fan of neutrogene products for a little over five years now. Sometimes they work great, other times they don’t work much at all, but for the most part I’ve found that neutrogena is great for cleansing products, but not necessarily acne products. As a youth, …

I remembered Salon Selectives shampoos from a few years back, and when I first saw this product on the shelf, I assumed without a close look that it was a shampoo, one of the old ones. Then I saw “pomegranate” and realized it must have been created more recently because …

A short tour with my family and friends during the vacations proved to be quite a memorable trip that I thoroughly enjoyed to the core. But with the fun and frolic, I sometimes had to experience some difficulties chiefly associated with traveling. The fact that travelling sometimes required me …

I received a jar of the Mill Creek “Instant Home Spa” salt scrub as a gift. I had used a few mill Creek products, but not the scrubs. This is a pretty basic formula, with an ocean type of scent, a little like the “Oceans” candles at Pier One, but …

Today let me review a new brand of hand sanitizer I bought. Instant Hand Sanitizer made by Clean n’natural.I bought a 237 ml bottle from walgreens. The cost of the product was around 4 dollars. I wanted to start using a water free hand sanitizer after the H1N1 panic. …

I will be reviewing the Nike+ Sportsband itself plus the software
The software provided on the nikeplus website was very easy to use and I had no problems with downloading it. However I had a little bit of trouble getting it started for the first time as my first run …

My mother bought herself a Philips Sonicare toothbrush earlier in the year and was raving on about it, so it should not have come as a surprise when I received one for my birthday!
I was a little sceptical over the toothbrush if I’m honest; I had resisted …

Runner will really love this wonderful Garmin Forerunner 305 Wrist-Mounted GPS. The Garmin Forerunner 305 Wrist-Mounted GPS looks sort of like a watchm, but it does so much mroe than any watch ever has.
Perfect for runner this device gives you information about your place, speed and hearth rate, as …

I really enjoyed going to Curves it was a great place to have a good workout!
The best thing about Curves is it does not take hours to do a workout. It only takes 30 minutes of your time to do a circuit of a variety of exercises.
Another great thing …

I love natural soaps, and this one caught my attention with the name. I can’t see auras, but it would seem likely that a glowing one is a good thing, so I bought this almond scented bar to make myself glow, just in case I ran across someone who could …

Having a glucose problem, I have to check my blood sugar often, and when I was first diagnosed, I went to the store and checked out my options. I’ve seen the One Touch Ultra all over the TV, so that one was the one I was more familiar …

I used this one when I get irritated on my part when I traveled outside the Metro last year. I just used it because I did not bring my feminine wash that I trusted and that is the only feminine wash available in the market that time.
I remember I …

Last October, I went on a weekend-long trip to Vegas to visit a friend of mine while she got married. It was a nice trip, but I have to say I wasn’t at all prepared for the flight home, which was a red-eye 11pm flight, until 5am. It would …

After my first delivery i was committed and wanted to breastfeed my daughter,but within the first five days i started to develop nipple soreness and cracked nipples. It would hurt me so much that even though i wanted to feed my baby i would subconsciously resist myself since i …

I like to make my own bath salt products, and I usually order my salt from the soap supply company Brambleberry, because their quality and service is great and the prices very reasonable.
When I was thinking up various formulas for bath soaks, I remembered that calendula is supposed to be …

I bought this toothbrush a few months ago and it works well. I purchased at the time from K-Mart. When I bought it I paid 3 dollars for it. There were 2 included in the package and that’s the main reason why I decided to purchase …

I like to use products to exfoliate my face and keep skin as fresh and young as possible for my forty one years of age. I have used a variety of methods for doing this, from loofahs and various scrubs to chemical exfoliates. Someone suggested to me that I …

Bodylastics is a home gym exercise system that involves using resistance bands to help build muscle and burn fat. There are three different package sets that you can order, T.O. Super Strong man (105$), Maximum Tension(60$) and Basic Tension(50$). The main difference between the package sets is the resistance …

I almost completely stooped using “plastic” pads and started using the more natural organic cotton ones.
These are quite a bit pricier than the “plastic” brands, the price averaging at twice the price of plastic ones. But it is well worth it in my opinion.
I buy the ones with …

I have long been a fan of kid’s toothpastes, because I have a sensitive mouth and strongly flavored mint toothpastes made for adults is often painful for me to use. They cause me to spend less time brushing because of the discomfort, so I find that milder flavored toothpastes, like …

I’ve always had trouble sleeping and snoring and grinding my teeth, but my husband has recently brought it to my attention that I’m doing these things way more than I have in the past and it’s really starting to disrupt HIS sleep. I had tried a few different things …

Sometimes I do foolish things. I am an intelligent person who can read labels, but occasionally I just don’t think. When I was telling a friend of my mother’s about my weight loss efforts and products I had tried which didn’t really work, we got onto the subject of …

Icy&Hot is a pain reliever that can be used for many things. This is a temporary pain relieving cream that relaxes areas that are causing pain. This is the type of cream that athletes use when exercising, has a sprained or strained muscle, or are having pain for any …

The sun damage on my face has become something that I couldn’t ignore anymore, so I looked into what my options were to get rid of the dark spots, as well as the redness of blood vessels. I wanted something near my apartment, so I did some research, and …

I like to get a nice exfoliating scrub in the shower sometimes and there are several methods of doing that. Cleansers with abrasives or seeds added do a fairly good job, and then there are salt scrubs, and loofahs. I love loofahs but my experience with them has been …

I purchased these for use on a vacation over seas. I needed dual voltage, and a set small enough to be portable. I only use these in the back portion of my hair, as I use a curling iron or rotating styler on the top. They did …

I have always had sensitive and watery eyes. Recently when I moved to my new office I found that my eyes were more watery than ever and I had a feeling that it was because my eyes were actually dry.
I guess my seat being right under the air …