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POTW: Garnier Pure Active Facial Scrub and Garnier Pure Active Pimple Roll On

A box arrived yesterday containing these:

….perfect timing because I have been thinking what product to feature this Wednesday…as I have mentioned, from time to time I will be featuring products that I think is worth your time..

That’s Garnier PureActive product range: Garnier Pure Active Facial Scrub and Garnier Pure Active Pimple Roll On

Garnier PureActive’s breakthrough formula consists of a combination of two powerful acne-fighting ingredients – Purifying Salicylic Acid with proven anti-bacterial properties, and Natural HerbaRepair^TMfrom blueberry extracts, which helps repair and regenerate the skin to prevent scarring. Clinically tested on acne prone skin, the line works immediately on imperfections and delivers multi-action benefits from day one.

Garnier Pure Active Pimple Roll On Concentrated with 2%salicylic acid, the new Garnier Pure Active Pimple Roll-On immediately dries pimple and reduce acne spots. The revolutionary metal roller-ball immediately helps relieve pimples without having to touch the pimple itself, while its compact size is convenient to carry around your bag.

Garnier Pure Active Facial Scrub Enriched with powerful anti-bacterial active with repairing properties and microbeads, the new Garnier Pure Active Scrub actively fights the 6 skin problems so you can say adieu to pimples, whiteheads, oiliness, enlarged pores, impurities and unevenness.

I am lucky.. no.. thanks to my birth control pills, my face is acne free.. but my sister’s face is not that lucky..I guess the acnes that supposed to be on my face landed on hers.. heheh (please don’t tell I said that).. and you know how summer and acne loves each other? PIMPLE OUTBREAK! So I told her to use Garnier Pure Active Facial Scrub and Garnier Pure Active Pimple Roll On for a week and let’s see what happens.

FYI: Garnier PureActive is available in all major supermarkets, department stores and drug stores across the Philippines.

Hot Parenting Tip: Great Summer Fun Ideas

Our summer days started a day after recognition/graduation last week. As soon as they woke up and realized there’s no more school that day, they started wondering what they can do this summer. Oh, I wanted to sing Phineas and Ferb theme song to them:

Theres 104 Days of Summer Vacation,
And School comes along just to End it.
So the Annual Problem for our Generation,
Is finding a good way to Spend it.

and I would want them to be creative like Phineas and Ferbs, but I don’t think I can handle a rocket or a mummy or Nanobots! So before our kids start building their own rocker or climb up the Eiffel Tower, let’s share great Summer Fun Ideas that our kids can do this summer.

Swimming Party!

of course.. summer is all bout swimming, schedule a playdate where your kids and their friends can have a swimming party on your backyard. And that’s what we did last Sunday. We had a Halo-Halo/ swimming party. And the kids had so much fun, good thing Levy brought another pool 🙂 (hindi sila nagkasya sa pool namin!)

Swimming party is a great way to enhance your kids’ social skill and locomotion. The fun in swimming can keep your kids busy for a day or two as the experience gives them a lot of things to talk about.

Board Games

Board games were popular during our time.. we used to spend hours playing scrabble or monopoly and I wanted my boys to experience the same. A few months ago we bought them board games (chess and scrabble) and so far, it’s making them busy for an hour or two. Scrabble also help them enrich their vocabulary while chess makes them think more.

Arts and Crafts

Buy some paper and some paints and brushes and let them “paint” all they want. You can also encourage them to create post card like art works that you can send to your relatives abroad using international parcel delivery. You can also teach them to make dye shirts since it’s a perfect shirt for this season. Here, almost every Saturday we have our art session and it keeps them busy for the whole afternoon.

Summer Classes

It’s another way to spend summer. Enroll them on Summer Clinics such as MILO Summer Sports Clinics, perfect for kids ages 7-16 years old. They offer 10 different sports: badminton, chess, football, gymnastics, karatedo, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, and volleyball.

You can find a Milo Summer Sports Clinic in different parts of the country:

NCR Milo Summer Sports Clinic (Caloocan, Manila, Makati, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Pasig, Quezon)
Luzon Milo Summer Sports Clinic (Baguio, Binan, Cavite, Dagupan, Lucena, Malolos, Naga, Tarlac)
Visayas Milo Summer Sports Clinic (Bacolod, Iloilo, Tacloban)
Mindanao Milo Summer Sports Clinic (CDO, Davao, Gensan, Koronadal, Zamboanga)

Milo Summer Sports (Caloocan, Manila, Makati, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Pasig, Quezon)
Luzon Milo Summer Spor

Milo Summer Sports Clinic Promo: Participants will get a discount of P100.00 on the registration fee when they submit a 1kg MILO^® pack during registration.Visit http://www.milo.com.ph or call (02) 353-5090, (02) 966-6333, and (0917) 589-9880 to register for any of the sports clinics this summer of 2012.

You can also enroll them on art classes (Global Art) or dance studio if your kid is not into sports.

Hassle Free Food Preparation

I’m a mother of four kids and I am still breastfeeding my youngest. I have a husband who also demands my attention and I had to feed them all. I don’t have a helper.. and I maintain more than 10 blogs.. of course my sister is here and she really is a big help to me.. but do you know how I manage to be a mult- faceted mom? Hassle Free Food Preparation! (and a microwave oven)

Food preparation for a large family can be time consuming.. if you will not manage it well, half of your day will be spent preparing food, with my technique, everyday food preparation only takes 5-10 minutes. No Sweat!

No, I don’t rely on fastfood and carinderia.. and also not on instant ulam, I still cook our food. My secret is to devote one a week in food preparation. Usually we go to the market on Saturday mornings then the whole Saturday is devoted cooking dishes. After each dish is done, I let it cool and it goes straight to our freezer. I only do that on meat dishes though, as with veggies, it’s tasted different when you it is placed on that freeze. What I do is blanch the veggies then put it in the freezer and defrost it when I need it.

This has been my technique for more than a year already and so far it has been very helpful to me. Just imagine, for a week, you will have to cook 5 dishes that needs garlic and onion, on a daily basis, for a week, you will have to peel and cut (and cry) garlic and onion, where in if you will apply my technique of cooking just once a week, you were able to save 4 peeling and cutting time.

The technique is very useful to moms who have no time cook on a daily basis. Another reason why I devised this technique is to preserve the freshness of the produce that we buy specially the veggies (hence the blanching) since we usually do our shopping every two weeks or every week.

When it’s to time to eat, we just put the food on the microwave and voila!