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March 07, 2007

Product Endorsement Day Here at DS

The first week of the month is always an orgy of shopping, as Adam only gets his Money from the Man once a month. I get to run out and get all the little things I've been waiting to buy, and stock up on groceries from Costco, etc. etc. Well, this month I got a few things I'm particularly excited about, and no, no one is paying me to say this.

First, the Omop from Method. It just seemed like a much more eco-friendly alternative to my Swiffer WetJet.

Adam griped that they were trying to be Apple, with the look of their website, and insisted that they would have called it the "iMop" if they could have gotten away with it. I disagree. I really think it is a play on "Om." C'mon, lemon ginger floor cleaner? Anyway, I give it higher marks than the Swiffer, though not quite an A+. It maneuvers wonderfully, gets under and around things effortlessly. The cleaning solutions smell wonderful (in addition to the lemon-ginger all floor scent, there's almond for hardwood), and then there's the reusability (and the disposable dusting cloths actually compost, as they're made from corn!) The only drawback is that once the pad is really wet, it pushes better than it pulls. And I'll still probably use a wet mop for any scrubbing that needs to be done. And you have to touch the dirty, messy pad to get it off. But, then again, I need to raise the marks a little because it gets the edges of the kitchen so well, which was hard to do with either a regular mop or the Swiffer.

Thing number two is my new Burt's Bees Radiance Night Cream. I needed a heavier moisturizer for night time, and have started being much fussier about what's in my beauty products (check out The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics to see what I'm talking about). I absolutely love it, and it's just as luxuriant as expensive department store brands, but without all the yuck.

And, I've saved the most exciting for last. Guys who are not comfortable with menstruation, read no further. They were having a 20% off sale in honor of International Women's Week over at Lunapads, and I had been thinking about trying them out for a while. My order hasn't arrived yet, but I'll try and post a review. Supposedly they'll send me a gift if I do so, so I guess the statement "no one is paying me to say these things" isn't 100% true. First of all, I just find menstrual pads icky. I don't like tampons. And, just like with disposable diapers, I have a small amount of guilt over the environmental consequences of manufacture and disposal. So, I figured I'd give these a go, at least for night time. And, they come in leopard print. That's all you need to do to get me to try something new; just put leopard print on it.

So that's my buying frenzy for this month. Until next time...

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