Sense' Prelude 5 Review and Giveaway!

 I was asked to review the Sense' Prelude 5 line of Products that is produced and manufactured by Usana.  Shonda Knowlton, an Independent Usana Distributor, sent me sample sizes of the basic Sense' Skin Care Line to try and compare their line to what I normally use.

Sense' Beautiful Science is a complete line of personal skin care products free from added chemicals. All products are manufactured by Usana Health Sciences in the United States and are formulated with a patented Self-Preserving Technology. The products provide topical nutrition and anti-aging technologies on the cellular level. Sense' received Best of State for Personal Care Products 2 years in a row! Leeza Gibbons is a fan of these products, as were other celebrities in Hollywood when it was presented at the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards Style Lounge in L.A.


First, I used the Gentle Daily Cleanser.  I found it to be thicker than the cleansers that I use.  It doesn't foam and the idea is to spread it onto your skin and remove it (along with built on dirt) with a wash cloth.  I liked how the smell was light and natural.


Next, the Hydrating Toner was used and again, it was different than what I normally experience with toners.  This toner was thicker in consistency and could almost pass as a light lotion.  It helped my skin feel moisturized and clean!


 The Perfecting Essence is to be put on after cleansing and before moisturizing.  It has Dermal Surface Renewal Technology, which means that it boosts the skins natural renewal process and diminishes blothes, age spots and fine lines.  It felt very light and I didn't feel like I had anything on my skin.  Apparently, though, it was doing its job!


The Daytime Emulsion was really nice and I could tell that it was full of natural ingredients, which is what I love in a skin care product!


Finally the Night Renewal Creme has Regenisomes Enzyme Technology that helps boost cell recovery to help reduce the appearance of aging!


My Opinion:  These are obviously high quality products and the thing that I liked the most is the patented technology that allows these products to be self preserving.  In other words, they don't need artificial ingredients to help them keep their shelf life.  The natural ingredients in them keep the product integrity.  I really liked the smell and the way they felt on my skin.

Sensé beautiful science® skin-care products offer an innovative approach to skin care. With groundbreaking, patented Self-Preserving Technology, Sensé™ products contain no added chemical preservatives—meaning they stay fresh naturally—so they are more gentle and healthy for even the most sensitive skin. Our skin-care specialists have carefully formulated exclusive antioxidant complexes in every product using ingredients proven to revitalize skin cells, leaving skin looking younger and more radiant.

Your skin is the last organ to receive nutrients from the body and often the first to show signs of nutritional deficiency, imbalance, or the unhealthy effects of free radicals. True health and beauty requires a synergy of internal and external nutrition, as well as protection from the environment and oxidative damage, which can accelerate the appearance of sagging and wrinkling.
Developed by USANA Health Sciences, Sensé products are formulated to properly nourish and hydrate your skin’s cells. The Sensé beauty regimen is designed to be a comprehensive approach to skin and hair care that takes into account the nutritional needs of both the skin and body.

 To Get these products:  Go to Shonda's Usana Website, where you can read more about Sense', order online, enroll in their program, or become a distributor!

WIN:  Shonda has graciously offered to give one of my readers their own full size (1.3 oz) tube of Daytime Emulsion (a $39 Retail Value), complete with patented Regenisomes!


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Thanks for entering this giveaway!  This giveaway will close at 11:59 pm MST on 6/12/10.  Winner will be selected with Random.org and notified with e-mail.  Please respond within 48 hours.  I received no compensation to provide my honest review other than a sample of the product. 

CHUNKY BLING WINNER!

My random number generator spit out #43, which happens to be Natalie!  Thanks to everyone who entered and keep visiting back because I have some interesting reviews and giveaways coming up from some great companies!  Have a great Memorial Day weekend!  Be safe!

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Hi there!  If you haven't had a chance to visit me before, I'd like to say hello and I'm happy to meet you. I've got a migraine this morning, but it hasn't stopped me from getting on and joining the party.  I'm not sure if this is the 24 hour flu my friend had the other day or my trying too hard to do 'Body by Jake' this morning.  In any case, here I am. 

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Time Well Spent!

Do you ever ask someone a question that seems to break open a floodgate of information that you really didn't intend on getting, but you get it anyway?  A simple 'How Are You?' can trigger a load of information that may be better left on a counselor's couch than the two minutes you have available at the moment to listen.  Somehow the person is just bursting to tell somebody, right then and there. And you happen to be the lucky person who gets to be the listening ear, whether you want to be or not. That is the time when one needs to gauge the importance of listening to a fellow human being in need of venting or the need to continue on your own course of scheduled work, which is always SO important, because you own that piece of time, to do with whatever you may and it will never return to you again.

This is what happened to me just the other day when I was on the job working for the Census.  My job is to follow up with those folks who either didn't get their Census 2010 forms filled out and returned or they didn't get them for one reason or the other.  Most of the time, things go really smoothly.  I just need a count of who lived in the home on April 1st of 2010, the names if they have them, the dates of birth and race.  That's it. 

So, the other day (meaning sometime during the past two months) I knocked on a door and a kid answers (I say kid loosely, he was probably 22 - 23 years of age).  He was really polite and told me that he'd be happy to answer the Census questions except for the fact that he had to rush to court.  "I've GOT to make this". he said.  "I'll be in a world of hurt if I don't."  I wished him good luck and went on my way.

I found him home about a week later and he was in a more relaxed way and we proceeded to complete the census questionnaire both seated cross-legged on the front lawn.  I casually asked him how his court date went and that's when the floodgates came open.

He told me a 30 minute story that was amazing. A short, watered down version goes like this: "My sister and "this guy" had been dating for awhile, when she decided to call it off.  She, in the meantime, had decided to go on a mission for her church and was a virgin, saving herself for her marriage.  She went back to "this guy's" house to retrieve some items she had left there.  When she went into the house, he apprehended her and proceeded to assault her and rape her.  I happened to come up to the house because I was going to pick her up.  I heard her screaming before I got to the door and when I burst into the house, I saw "this guy" in the act of raping my sister.  I did what anyone with any love or loyalty for their family would do, I took a baseball bat and beat him to a bloody pulp.By the time I was through with him, he was lucky to be alive.  I told the cops what had happened and they told me they would do the same thing, if it had been them.  But when I got to the police station, it was a different story. I was treated badly, put in jail, left there for 2 weeks before being allowed to leave with bail, and was told I would most probably serve a minimum 10-year sentence in prison for 1st degree assault, a felony."  My eyes lit up and I gleefully exclaimed, because I'm bright like that, "So, THAT is where you were going in such a hurry when I came last time!"  "Yes, that's right", he patiently acknowledged.  By this time, I wasn't in as much of a hurry as I thought I was a few minutes before.

"So what happened in court?" 

"Well, they were ready to throw the book at me and send me to prison for 10 years or more.  The prosecuting attorney was demanding justice for what I had done, regardless of who "this guy" had hurt and who I was defending.  Things looked pretty bleak.  But then the defending attorney found some blatant discrepancies in the testimonies of the officers who were the first ones at the scene.  At first they said one thing about my statements and then they retracted that and said something else.  Because of that one thing, my defending attorney was able to get a jury to look at that and they found me 'Not Guilty' and I was dismissed of all charges. But even if I was found guilty and put in prison for years, I would still do the same thing.  Nobody is going to do that to my sister and not hear from me.  It turns out "this guy" was a married man and she didn't even know."

"I'm very glad that you're not in prison!" I said.  And thanks for sticking up for your sister and yet not killing that guy!  And most of all, thanks for helping me to help you get counted in Census 2010!  Have a great day!" 

As I drove away, I thought, "It's what anyone would do--listen to a fellow citizen!"  I'm glad I took the time to listen. he needed it, but more than that, I needed it. And it gave me some definite things to think about.

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