Shortly after I gave birth to my second child, my kids and I all came down with a cold. No fun! Around this time I was given the opportunity to review Achooz Saline Nose Wipes which are basically the adult version of Boogie Wipes!

No more sore red and raw stuffy noses guaranteed! I can vouch that quickly after using  Achooz with my current cold that I felt so much better! Tissues just don’t cut it in my household anymore! These wipes are so smooth on my skin that I also using them on my three week old son.

Achooz come in a variety of scents that are adult friendly such as cool menthol for extra stuffy noses and unscented for every day use. The pouch size is purse and bag friendly which is a total plus!  These are great and very soothing. A product I most certainly couldn’t live without!

Buy it: Achooz are available at numerous locations. You can check their website for a store near you. If buying online, you can get Achooz Saline Nose Wipes, on Amazon for 3.39!

Win it!

The Good People over at Achooz are offering one of my readers a (2) 15 count packs of Achooz (unscented & mint), 4 sachets, 2 coupons!

To Enter: Visit Achooz and tell me something I didn’t mention or that you learned!

Extra Entries:

1. Blog this giveaway, link back to this post. (2 extra)

2. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)

3. Post this giveaway on a Giveaway Linky/Site and let me know where!

4. Email a friend(s) about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

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6. Become a Facebook Fan of Connected2Christ and leave me a comment there letting me know you are coming from this giveaway.

Giveaway running till 02/28/11 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant. USA only.

DISCLAIMER: My thoughts are mine own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any compensation for hosting this giveaway or review other than the sample above mentioned.

With guilt-free and indulgent choices that now taste even better than before, Fiber One helps make it easier than ever to increase your daily intake while leaving your taste buds jumping for joy.

When hunger strikes and you need to satisfy your sweet tooth, Fiber One has you covered with at least 35% of your daily value of fiber in every serving of their cereals and bars. Check out the great new taste of three Fiber One favorites.

• Fiber One Honey Clusters have a brand new flake! Every one-cup serving is full of tasty honey clusters, antioxidant vitamins A and E, and 13 grams of fiber.



• Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters now contain crispier, lightly sweetened whole grain flakes. With plump, juicy raisins and crunchy clusters it packs 11 grams of fiber and antioxidant vitamins A and E into every serving.



• With rich chocolate chips and a new and improved taste, Fiber One Oats & Chocolate chewy bars are a good source of calcium and contain 9 grams of fiber in each bar.

Your Fiber One favorites, including Fiber One Honey Clusters, Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters, and Fiber One Oats & Chocolate Chewy Bars are all available at your local Safeway family of stores, so be sure to stop by your local Safeway (or Dominick’s, Tom Thumb, Randalls, Vons, and Genuardi’s) to try the great new taste of Fiber One today!

We love Fiber One cereal and bars in our home and welcome their new great flavors! When I’m looking for something to throw in my purse or to snack on through out the day, these are always the first pick! It’s not often something so tasty is also really good for you. It’s great to feel completely guilt free when indulging on the bars! Even my two year old daughter loves the bars and cereal!

Win it!

One winner will receive VIP coupons for a free box of Fiber One cereal and a free box of the Fiber One bars.  The giveaway also includes a $25 Safeway Gift Card (or Dominick´s, Tom Thumb, Randalls, Vons, and Genuardi´s)!

To Enter: Tell me which variety of Fiber One cereal or bars would you most like to try?  (Mandatory entry) USA Only.

Extra Entries:

1. Blog this giveaway, link back to this post. (2 extra)

2. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)

3. Post this giveaway on a Giveaway Linky/Site and let me know where!

4. Email a friend(s) about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

5. Subscribe to my blog by RSS or E-mail (Feed Burner) and let me know!

6. Become a Facebook Fan of Connected2Christ and leave me a comment there letting me know you are coming from this giveaway.

Giveaway running till 11/14/10 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant. USA  only and No PO Boxes.

DISCLAIMER: I received a $25 gift card and coupons for Fiber One products from General Mills and My Blog Spark. Any opinions expressed are my honest opinions and were not impacted by my receipt of the gift card and coupons. I received no monetary compensation for this post.

Tropical Traditions is one of my favorite places to check out for all sorts of wonderful organic  skin  and hygiene care items! They offer a great selection of natural products which include things like deodorant, toothpaste, lotion, soap and more!

I recently was able to review their Citrus and Mint Skin Exfoliating products! Why exfoliate? Well, it smooths the skin, unclogs pores, and reduces the appearance of wrinkles. All added pluses as we get older!

As soon as I opened this product I right away was happy with the smell. It wasn’t over the top in the least bit! I couldn’t wait to use this on my feet since that’s the most common place where I get dry skin that needs to be smoothed out.  A little bit of this goes a long way. Since using this product, my feet are much smoother and happier. This a product that I’m totally going to be keeping on hand for all my exfoliating needs. I am going to be looking to get a few different of the scent though this one is a sure favorite of mine.

Buy it: If you purchase Tropical Traditions  products from their site, then be sure to use my customer number at checkout. This will get you a FREE book with your order, titled: “Virgin Coconut Oil: How it Has Changed People’s Lives and How it can Change Yours.” At checkout, underneath, “How Did You Hear About Us?”, pull the drop down box to “Referred by a Friend”. Then a box will appear to type in the User ID of the friend (me) who referred you. This number is 5542476. A $25 book, free with your purchase!

Win it!

How would you like to win your very own Skin Exfoliating product in the Orange Citrus and Mint scent from Tropical Traditions?

To Enter: Visit Tropical Traditions and let me know another product that interest you!

Extra Entries:

1. Blog this giveaway, link back to this post. (2 extra)

2. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)

3. Post this giveaway on a Giveaway Linky/Site and let me know where!

4. Email a friend(s) about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

5. Subscribe to my blog by RSS or E-mail (Feed Burner) and let me know!

6. Become a Facebook Fan of Connected2Christ and leave me a comment there letting me know you are coming from this giveaway.

7. Subscribe to Tropical Tradtions newsletter at http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/subscribe_for_special_sales.cfm

8. Follow @troptraditions on Twitter!

Giveaway running till 11/11/10 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant. USA & Canada only.

DISCLAIMER: My thoughts are mine own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any compensation for hosting this giveaway or review other than the sample above mentioned.

Playful Chef is a company created to encourage healthy fun in the kitchen.  They offer several variations of cooking kits made specifically for children ages three and up.

The kit I was sent to review  included 13 kid-sized FDA grade tools, 8 plastic cookie cutters, 1 recipe booklet, 1 RED polyester tool belt apron.  We love this kit, the recipes are extremely kid friendly and the tools are all the right size! My daughter and I can’t wait to use the cookie cutters to bake up some great sugar cookies in the months ahead!

I love there are places like Playful Chef offering parents a place to look to in making cooking and learning in the kitchen fun for kids. What a truly hands on experience to value for a lifetime for parents and their kids!

Playful Chefs also offers wonderful playful cookbooks, place mats, a French cooking set complete with chef’s hat, and much, much more. Visit www.playfulinc.com to find out more!

Disclaimer: I was sent a  product to review from Playful Chef through Chic Exces. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review.

I was set several products to review from Quantum Health from their Oral Health Kit and was happy to see they had a natural health product substitute compared to others out on the market. I haven’t had the chance to test these products out personally, but I wanted to shed the light on them since I’ve really good things about them from other people.

The following products I was sent include:

• Lip Clear Lysine – Cold sore treatment. Contains lysine and tea tree oil. Ointment goes on clear.
• Canker Cover –  Oral canker sore patch. Forms a clear gel patch over the canker sore providing pain relief and treatment. Natural mint flavor.
• OraMoist – Dry mouth treatment. Time-released disc that adheres to the roof of your mouth to increase mouth moisture. Natural fruit flavor. Sugar-free. Alcohol-free.

Quantam Health offers a large variety of 100% natural over the counter health products including drugs, dietary supplements and personal care products such as the Outdoor Bug, Bite & Sting Protection Kit that caught my eye.

Their website is very easy to navigate and you’ll find lots of information in their Library which features various health articles on all sorts of conditions and ways to better care for your body.

Win it: How would you like win your very own Oral Health Kit from Quantum Health?

To Enter: Visit Quantum Health and let me know about another product that interest you!

Extras:

1. Add me to your blogroll or add my button.
2. Blog it, link back to this post. (2 extra)
3. Favorite my blog on Technorati
4. Subscribe by email/RSS. (2 extra)
5. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)

Tweet: (copy/paste)

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This Giveaway is only open to U.S and Canada

Giveaway running till 01/31/09 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant.

Disclaimer – I am not any kind of medical professional. I am sharing information that is available from Quantum Health (on their website and their product packaging). As with any health product, you should do your own research and check with your health professional prior to use. I was sent these product for review thanks to Laurie Lindenbaum and Quantum Health.

As a mother of a small child, it’s very important for me to keep anything that can be potentially dangerous from her.My daughter is currently 18 months old and let me tell you, she’s a real handful at times. You’ll often find her dancing on top of the kitchen tables, climbing up the dressers & bookshelves, and darting for the front door anytime it’s open, all of which keeps me on my toes most of the time.

Did I mention my daughter is very smart, she’s figured out door knobs, she knows how to open water bottles caps, and before I know she’ll be able to get into even more things. I really worry about her getting a hold of medication and this is more of a concern for me since she’s been on prescription drugs since she was about 1 week old.  She eagerly awaits her pills each morning and takes them happily. It would scare me to death if she got a hold of her prescription because as it’s part of her daily ritual, she would probably consume a very lethal amount because she treats her pills like candy.

It was a pretty scary realization when I learned that in a a recent report by the CDC, each year in the United States more than 71,000 children age 18 and younger are seen in emergency rooms for unintentional overdoses of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. It also reported that about 1 out of every 180 two-year-olds visits an emergency department for a medication overdose each year. I literally shudder at the thought.

I used to put medications in my bathroom cabinet. Yes, it was high up but the  medications were still not that hard for my daughter to get a hold of if she really wanted to get them. I needed a better solution to my troubles and was given just that when the opportunity to review the Medsafe was given to my family and I.

My Thoughts…

In an effort to help parents keep their meds safely secured and their children out of harm’s way, Michael Rebando, a Long Island locksmith of two decades developed an electronic lock-box called MedSafe.

This little safe is the perfect solution to keeping potentially dangerous drugs out of reach from my daughter.  It’s so very simple to set up too. How it works is you first decide which medications you’d like to store inside, set your password, and close the door. Four screws are included so if you want to mount this on the wall you can definitely do that too. It’s sleek design makes it look great in any bathroom as well.

Setting the passcode was very simple, and with over 19,500 changeable combinations it wasn’t too hard to come up with a code my husband and I would both remember. And if we ever want to change it again, we can do so quite easily by following the instructions given.

I love the fact that it has a digital lock but my only concern would be to make sure you have an extra set of batteries hanging around. This isn’t a huge issue to me if I am not able to get it open right away but I did notice that the manufacturer recommends an emergency supply of life saving medication be stored in a separate location. Especially if you or your child really needs their medication right away. I’m hoping perhaps they’ll improve on this design and have perhaps some sort of fail safe if it comes to that.

I’m currently storing my prescription drugs as well as some other infant medications and vitamins in my Medsafe. The items I’ve chosen to store are very desirable for my daughter. As you can see from the photos, the safe isn’t very large, it can approximately hold  about 15 prescription bottles, it works well for me but perhaps a larger model will be created in due time to hold taller pill containers.

I love companies that give back so it’s fantastic to know that a portion of each unit sold will support teen prescription drug abuse awareness programs through non-profits such as D.A.R.E.

Though I had just a few notable issues, I’m a big fan of the Medsafe and would highly recommend everyone I know to get one! As my mom would say, better safe than sorry especially with younger children as well as teens.

Buy It

MedSafe can be purchased “For A Limited Time Only” at the price of $39.95 plus $9.95 Shipping and Handling(Regularly $59.95). Visit www.helpsaveourkids.com to learn more or make a purchase..

Win it!

Medsafe has generously offered one of my winners their very own Medsafe!

To enter: Visit www.helpsaveourkids.com and tell me something you learned while you were there.

Extras:

1. Add me to your blogroll or add my button.
2. Blog it, link back to this post. (2 extra)
3. Favorite my blog on Technorati
4. Friend/Fan @ Facebook
5. Subscribe by email/RSS. (2 extra)
6. Sign up to win giveaways at Janet and Kristinia’s blogs..( let me know which ones)
7. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)
8. Email a friend about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

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RT: Win a Medsafe to keep all your medications safely hidden away! 12/05 @erinlowmaster (add url)

This Giveaway is only open to U.S and Canada

Giveaway running till 12/05/09 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant.

Disclaimer: I was given a  Medsafe to review. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review.

Thankfully with my daughter, I haven’t had to deal with too much sickness and the issues that come along with that like diarrhea. Thought it always seem like every time she gets new vaccinations and when she is teething, she gets an upset stomach which leads to some not so fun diaper rashes. I hate seeing my daughter in pain from her rashes, some are minimal but others have been to the point where I almost took her in to see the doctor.

I just learned about a product for kids and adults called Florastor that helps to prevent stomach issues from constipation to diarrhea and is excellent solution to prevent issue with the digestive system.

A little more information…

Florastor is suitable for all (infants 2 months of age to adults). It is a great tasting powder that can be mixed into beverages, including infant formula and soft foods like applesauce and yogurt.It is okay to take with antibiotics as it is natural yeast that works even when taken with antibiotics. Making sure you have the right number of “good microorganisms” may help reduce bloating and gas often caused by an imbalance of microorganisms.

Florastor maintains the balance of good microorganisms in the intestines. Keeps the gut functioning well. Promotes intestinal health. Protects good microorganisms in the intestines. Improves consistency of bowel movements.

Florastor can be used to help prevent and manage: Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). Acute gastroenteritis. Traveler’s diarrhea. Clostridium difficile (C. diff, which is a severe, possibly fatal infection of the colon that can occur after healthy microbiota are wiped out by the use of strong antibiotics, allowing a pathogenic bacteria to thrive; currently being seen more often, as C. diff is on the rise).

History:Number-One Probiotic Worldwide: Florastor probiotic supplements have been clinically tested and sold internationally for more than 50 years. The active ingredient in Florastor Kids is mentioned by the World Health Organization for the management of C. diff-associated diarrhea (Saccharomyces boulardii: a valuable adjunct in recurrent Clostridium difficile disease (1995) WHO Drug Information; 9; (1); 15-16). Florastor Kids is now available at most national chain pharmacies throughout the U.S. at numerous retail outlets.

Available: Florastor Kids is available in a box of 10 powder packets for a suggested price of $12.95 and in a box of 20 powder packets for a suggested price of $21.95. The adult version which are available in capsules are $9.95 for a box of ten.

Where to Buy: Florastor is available in most retail chain pharmacies, and at independent pharmacies.

I would definitely recommend giving this product a try if you are looking for a safe natural substitute in maintaining healthy intestinal function .

Disclaimer: I was sent samples of Florastor to review. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review.