Category — Burt's Bees

I’d like to take a minute to pass along my Congratulations to the 5 winners of the Bee Bionic Burt’s Bees Radiance skincare giveaway.

Melissa, Janet, Pie, Debbie, and Kam!

If you haven’t already emailed me your mailing addresses, please do so as soon as possible (or use the contact form on Bionic Beauty). I hope you all enjoy the goodies and please let us know your thoughts when you’ve tried the products out.

The deadline to enter the Bee Bionic Burt’s Bees Radiance skincare giveaway is quickly approaching. If you haven’t entered, head over to the original article and leave your comment (please be sure to read the rules, as there have been several people who tried to enter by saying “thanks!”) before midnight Eastern Time (ET) on June 28th.

Anyhow, best of luck to all. I look forward to inputing all your names into the service and picking the winners!

My bionically great friends at Beauty in Real Life are also holding a Bee-Beautiful contest this week in honor of the honey bees. It’s simple to enter, and much like the Bionic Beauty contest. So double your chances of winning and enter over at Beauty in Real Life as well!
Best of luck everyone and keep buzzing! I’m loving all the facts you are digging up. It’s fantastic to see us all being well rounded beauties and expanding our minds with new knowledge.

In honor of National Pollinator’s Week, Burt’s Bees and Bionic Beauty have teamed up to giveaway 5 sets of Burt’s Bees Radiance Kits to BB readers! Bee sure to read the rules below.

In order to enter: Leave a comment below containing two facts about honey bees or CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). You can find bee-friendly facts at the following websites: Haagen Daaz Loves Honey Bees, Pollinator.Org, and Burt’s Bees.

Here are a few facts to get your honey juices flowing… Did you know that pollinators are responsible for 1/3 of all the food we eat?!? And there’s some studies that show that eating locally farmed honey can improve your resistance to those pesky allergies!

The Prizes: Each bee-utiful winner will receive a Radiance Kit valued at $15.00!

• Mini Exfoliating Body Bar (.80 oz.)
• Exfoliating Body Wash (1 fl. oz.)
• Mini Body Lotion (.50 fl. oz.)
• Day Creme (.25 oz.)
• Night Creme (.25 oz.)
• Eye Creme (packette) (.67 oz.)
• Full Size Lip Shimmer (.0975 oz.)

The Rules: Five (5) winners will bee chosen from the qualified entrants and will receive the Burt’s Bees Radiance skincare gift set as detailed above. To qualify for entry, you must follow the entry rules as outlined in this post. The Burt’s Bees giveaway is open to USA residents only (sorry, Burt’s Bees only ships in the US). Please only enter once; duplicate entries will bee detected and discarded. Entry deadline is June 28, 2008 at midnight US ET. The winners will be chosen via Random.org and will bee announced here on Bionic Beauty and contacted via email.
*Please note that I will not share your email address with anyone! I only use your email address to contact you if you are a winner.

Please tell your friends and family about this Bee Bionic Giveaway, the more the merrier! Best of luck to everyone!

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Photograph is the copyright of Burt’s Bees.

In honor of BEEauty Week (June 22nd through the 28th), Bionic Beauty will be holding a contest sponsored by Burt’s Bees. The contest launches here on the blog on Sunday June 22, so be sure to check back on how to enter!

BEEauty Week is actually known as National Pollinator Week and Burt’s Bees wants to give these little pollinators their moment in the spotlight for all the work they do in providing us with healthy products that keep us looking BEE-utiful.

Bee sure to tell your friends and family about the contest, the more that enter, the more fun we’ll have here on Bionic Beauty!

(This is the first post by our new Bionic guest blogger: Joycey Couture. I hope you all enjoy!)

Everyone knows Burt’s Bees and the company’s infamous, and continued, good deeds to the human kind. So when presented the opportunity to test a competitor’s product, I was pysched! And honestly, for the simple reason that I often wonder if a product is as good as the brand name that it is backed by.

One problem area in particular that I knew that a product would have to come shining through (as bright as Rodulph’s nose in a Christmas eve blistering snow storm in fact)- my cuticles.

Picture this horrid image if you will- dry, undernourished, and jagged cuticles.

Bah humbug!

So, I assigned my left hand to the challenging Green by Nature, and my right to the champion, Burt’s Bees (both lemon butter scented).

Honestly, I’m not much for a lemon scent, so I was actually extremely excited (and relieved) to open Green’s almost banana smelling cream (one point for Green).

The textures of both products varied tremendously. Green’s creme is slick, therefore much more easily applied. However it did in fact dry quickly, so the “greasy” feeling that I felt at first dip did not last too long. Burt’s, on the other hand was a much harder, more wax-like feel. This may sound a bit harsh, but I felt like I needed to rustle up my pumpkin carving tools again to use this product!

The product you choose should really be dependent on the texture you prefer, because I must admit that after a week of ritual AM and PM application, both products won my praise. My cuticles are in better shape now than ever! However, to be true to the product that will remain on my nightstand- Green by Nature rocked. The delicious scent and delicate feel actually softened my cuticles and strengthened my nails.

Now, aren’t you Green with envy!?

You can buy Burt’s Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme from Drugstore.com ($6.19 for a tin) and Green By Nature’s Cuticle Cream from their website.

Read Bionic Beauty’s review of Green by Nature’s Hand Cream.

A new product review for Burt’s Bees Lip Balm…

Let me just start with- I love this lip balm! It glides on smoothly (although I do get the unusual tube that feels a bit “grainy”), tingles gently on your lips, and really moisturizers through a hot summer or a windy, dry winter.

For sensitive types, the product is billed as 95.29% natural (source: burtsbees.com). Here is a run down of the ingredients: Beeswax, coconut oil, sunflower oil, tocopheryl acetate and tocopheryl, lanolin, peppermint oil, comfrey root extract, rosemary extract. As an additional bonus: the tube itself is made of over 50% recycled plastic (so be sure to re-recycle the tube when you finish!).

I first discovered this lip balm about 8 years ago during a road trip stop at Cracker Barrel. For a long time, that was the only place (besides online) to find the Burt’s Bees line. Now, the line is much more accessible and can be found at your local drugstore, Target, and some grocery organic sections; or Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm can be found at Drugstore.com.

The tube is my preference, since the tin’s consistency is not as smooth, a bit messier, and in my opinion, not as sanitary.

Cons: This version does not have color (if you are looking for tint, try their tinted variety) and does not contain SPF. You can buy the Lifeguard’s version that does contain SPF.

Retail price ranges from $2.00 to $4.99.