Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Miracle Dry Oil

So here's my first blog about a product I tried out as a Bzzagent.  I received this product for free for review purposes.

First here is what I reported to BzzAgent.com about the product I received. 

Pros: It absorbs quickly into the skin and makes skin silky soft and healthy looking. I mostly used it on my arms, hands, and legs and liked the results. I have super dry skin especially in the winter. 

Cons: This product has an overwhelming scent to it when first applied. I have fine to medium hair. I have tried using this both before I dry my hair and after. Either way my hair ends up weighed down and clumpy, like I haven't washed it in a week. I have yet to try spraying the stuff on my hands first then lightly touching my hair with it as this might work, but spraying from 6-8 inches away as suggested still leaves my hair weighed down by too much getting on my hair. Also, don't use this product before using a hair straightener otherwise the oil will cause the straightener to smoke.

I did try spraying it on my hands first before applying to my hair and this was much much better, but my hair still had that haven't washed in a week greasy look to it. 

What I really like about this product is it contains olive, avocado, and Shea oils.  These oils have wonderful healing properties for the skin and apparently for hair as well.  I suspect my hair has enough moisture in it that adding this oil to my hair was not a positive thing.  (Maybe it's my wonderful new shampoo and conditioner from Happy Hausfrau Soap Company, hhsoap.com, review later.)  My skin however gets so dry in the winter time.  I am constantly in search of things that will keep it moisturized.  This stuff seems like it would be helpful, but honestly the scent makes this an undesirable product for me.  I'm not sure what the scent is, maybe they add fragrance (the bottle is upstairs right now), because I've smelled those oils before and they don't smell like this stuff.  I think this would be an excellent product if they did not add any fragrance to it.  I'll probably still use this bottle on my legs until it is gone.  

If you like heavy fragrance the price is awesome, only $5.99 for a bottle that will last a very long time even if you use it on your entire body.  A little goes a long way even on my dry skin.

My Review of BzzAgent.

BzzAgent is connected with Mypoints, which I will review separately as it's a whole different thing.  However that being said, you earn point for mypoints.com with some of the surveys and with some of the review functions on this site. 

BzzAgent asks you to connect to Facebook, Twitter, a blog, and MyPoints.  I don't recall if any of these are mandatory, but I do know you don't have to have all of them.  I have a dummy (well any twitter account I would have would be a dummy account, what's the point of tweeting when you can blog or better yet post something on facebook?) Twitter account I use for these posts and there are a couple of real people I know connected to it as well as a few bloggers that I allowed to follow my twitter account when they were doing big giveaways one Christmas so I don't mind endless posts about products I've tried.  Maybe that's the point of twitter anyway???  The blog is definitely not mandatory.  I've just started this blog after reviewing 6 items without it.

The next thing they have you do is answer a bunch of survey questions.  These are related to their product review choices.  They periodically have new ones for you and some of them give you 3 points for your MyPoints account. 

Then they have products they ask you if you want to review.  Should you say you want it they will send it to you within a few weeks, generally 2-4 weeks.  According to my records on bzzagent they send it out within a week of my request to join the "bzzcampaign".  This always includes a full size item to review (or a coupon for free full size item) and sometimes includes samples sizes and coupons to share.

Then you post on Facebook, Twitter, blog about it, post a photo and/or video, review the item on their site, and tell them how things went talking face to face about it and to how many people.  You earn points for MyPoints and rating to your Bzzscore.  Your bzzscore is one way they decide if you are offered a specific campaign or not.  The MyPoints amounts vary, I think from 10 points to 50 depending on how they score your action.  I personally have only done the Facebook, Twitter, review, and face to face posts in the past, but I hope to now do the blog one and maybe I'll start doing the photo one too.  I just don't like spending so much time taking a photo, getting the photos from my camera to my computer, and then having to upload them too. 

So far I have reviewed for them:

Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Miracle Dry Oil
Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut
G(R) Collection from Gold Toe
Burt's Bees(R) Intense Hydration
Glade Expressions(R) Collection
Frizz-Ease(R) Sheer Solution(TM) Lightweight Frizz Control

Ok so would I recommend this site?  YES!  I find it super easy and I don't feel that it makes me spam my friends with repeated posts about the same thing.  I love getting free stuff and the stuff isn't junk.  I've even turned down a couple of bzzcampaign offers because I didn't think I would use the product, like hair color or food that wasn't gluten free and my husband wouldn't eat it and review it for me.  Plus I earn points for MyPoints which I've been a member of for years (since 2000.)    MyPoints.com

Why I'm starting to blog.

I decided to start blogging since I review products for 3 different websites and I love doing craft projects and would love to show them off.

The list of places I review for are smiley360, buzzagent, and crowdtap.  On all of them I must first qualify to receive a free product then I have to promise to review it after using the item and talk about it with others in person and online.  Buzzagent asks me for a blog post about the product, which in the past I've just not done.  This way I can.  Plus it might be fun to blog away at how I felt a product applied to my life, desires, and needs.  I will add links to join if you are interested at the bottom of this blog.  Please join via the link as it increases my likelihood of being picked to review a product.  I've received some really cool items and some not so cool.  I got a contour memory foam pillow from Sleep Number and a Bona Hardwood Floor Mop as my coolest free items.  The other things I've gotten are frizz control hair product, Loreal face lotion, Burt's Bees night cream and other facial routine items, Tom's of Maine kids toothpaste, Garnier oil for the hair and skin, Gold Toe socks and underwear for my husband, Kellogg's cereal, and probably a bunch of others I've forgotten.

My other purpose of showing off craft products will mostly be knitted items, but I've also sewed up my own baby diapers, diaper liners, nursing pads, tote bag, and fleece diaper covers.  Right now my craft projects do lean heavily towards baby related items, but I also dabble in jewelry making and photo crafts for Christmas presents.  I've also made homemade diaper cream and wipes solution for cloth wipes.  Might as well do cloth wipes if you're doing cloth diapers, right?  I've also done crafts at MOPS meetings that I may share.  Some of them are so awesome I repeat them at home.  I'll probably do one blog just to post a bunch of photos of all this stuff I've made, should I have enough time.  Otherwise it will just be the new stuff as I make it.  My crafting has slowed down quite a bit since I had my baby in January.  She keeps me busy when I'm not frantically trying to get in as much housework as possible while she naps.  lol 

I will try to review these websites on this blog later as well as a couple other points to gift card earning sites.

These are the sites I get free stuff to review, -not- listed in order of preference.
Crowdtap: http://bit.ly/sfBWYv
 -Mostly surveys but some sample parties and earn points towards gift cards (changes coming soon)
Bzzagent.com (no link to my account)
 -Lots of surveys, but they are to direct them to what products to qualify you for.
smiley360.com—Be Heard. Be Happy.
-Mostly just a product review site