The R30 product that will boost your Winter beauty routine: Hoelson Sisters Coconut Face Oil 7 ways.

I am super obsessed with Fruit and Veg Food lovers market. I probably fall out there every two weeks, get a Seattle Coffee Company Grande Soy Latte/ Cappuccino (They look out for us lack toast and tolerant basic bit*hes) and do a walk through. That's how I found that they stock Sumac and always contemplating getting Jelly belly jelly beans(Ice cream flavour). But in general everyone knows the drill: Buy the weekly deal (Winter it's a deal with butternut squash, onions and potatoes and summer the tomato, cucumbers and lettuce) Buy some delicious fresh baked good, buy spinach you'll never eat and go to the till. That's where this discovery was made, at the till.

Damn I love this stuff. The last 3 years are the time of the beauty oil. Many people get weird because they think of cooking oil like sunflower. How can your hair and skin improve by using something you fry food in? Others thing of sebum, the stuff that makes for dirty hair and oily face. Not the same.

You can buy a few loose essential oils and blend them but it is so costly. But why tho'? Helen Hoelson did that for you already. This it one of the products I was stocked about picking up at the till. Here is my take on using Hoelson Sisters Oils 7 ways:

Hair mask/ Oil

With the new bottle design that dispenses drops, just use 5-10 drops and apply to hair ends. Especially with dry Gauteng winters it makes my hair more manageable. When I use it as a mask I massage about a quarter of a bottle into my roots and comb it through with a wide tooth comb. Because it is a natural product there are no chemicals that can cause damage. So you can leave it in for 30 minutes or over night.

Enriching any cream.

Instead of buying a winter specific cream I drop a few drops of oil in my face or body cream.

Hand and cuticle treatment.

I filled a roller ball with some oil to keep close to easely apply some oil to my hands and nails. I haven't had hangnails in a while.

Assist in smoother aplication of foundation

Here is the video of Wayne Goss. It also moisturises and so plumps up skin.

Makeup remover

Rub about 10 drops on your face and maybe a bit more on your eyes. I wipe everything off with a tissue, I guess the right way is with cotton pads but meh.

Eyelash conditioner.

I cleaned an old mascara tube and filled it with oil. I apply to my lashes and brows at night.

Make a scub

For the face I add a bit of oil to some Bi-carb and for hands and feet I mix it with sugar or salt.

*Bonus tip: Use it for shaving. For the last year I've been using oil to shave and am yet to get a cut.

I am still to try the lemon/ peppermint and cinnamon/ tea tree ones but so far I finished two of the original Lavender Rosemary. Here is their Facebook page. (They even had a stall a Cosme Tokyo 2016. BOOM. That makes me proud.) Here and Here are more of this company's awesome story.

Have you seen these awesome oil mixes?

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Chooseday: I guess it happens

Two weeks ago I felt like I was crushing life. After cleaning the house, my husband and I went for lunch then some monthly grocery shopping. Half way through shopping, Fitbit let me know I nailed my step goal. Because of a few adjustments in my shopping my total was under R1500 of my estimate. I felt very good. Until I got into the car and realised my phone was gone.

So unreal and impossible. I thought I had misplaced it at the Wimpy but when my husband called it, it went to voicemail. I have never lost a phone. I'm always super vigilant. Thinking back, someone pick pocketed me. If they took it out of my handbag they would have taken my wallet too. I feel so violated that someone came into me personal space and stole from me, off me.

First I was angry that all my photos, videos and music was gone. Then that I have so many personal things on there. I never logged out of any of my apps. It's the number I do my banking on. I don't usually upgrade to a top phone and my sister convinced me to get a better phone. My contract amount doubled. So I'm paying for a phone that I don't even have. (I thought I'd just buy a new one but that is a R6700 phone, that pissed me off even more)

I blocked the sim and the phone got blacklisted but we all know there are low-lives who 'un-blacklist' phones for a living. Only now I see you can sign up to Samsung to delete all your things. That helps me a lot now.

Went to the police station and the first one made me feel like a criminal. I didn't know where to go in. Around a corner around another corner there is a sign that says “Customer service”. -_- The cop was too lazy to do the job so we had to go to another police station. He was a real shit head that was all “if the crime was committed in Cape Town you have to report it in cape town” yet it was committed only in the next suburb and “it would be too much work for him to do that paper work as it needs to be transfered“.

Now I don't even want to imagine if a rape victim had to deal in that place. It hurts my heart. For me it's a phone for them it's their body. No money can fix that.

I realise I should let it go into the universe and carry on with my life. No one got hurt or died. It just tarnished my view on life a bit. I always fight to see the other side of people. But now I'm like, was it the school children that pushed passed me? Was it the rude lady who brushed against me without saying excuse me? Was it the “helpful” poor old man that came close to say a till was open?

Ulg life.

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