Soaps Opera Digest
April 11, 2006
Product Queen

Man, oh man, I am going all over the place with this month’s Product Queen. I found a few, shall I say…er…interesting products that I just have to write about! Bear with me while I go where no beauty writer has gone before, or at least, not this one.

Having said that, let me get to the absolute star product of the year. If you live with someone or are going to spend the night with someone or if you’re just using someone’s bathroom while you are visiting them – or they are visiting you – this product will make sense to you. Okay, I’ve beaten around the bush long enough!

It invariably happens that you need to use the bathroom and you’re dying because you’re in a one bedroom apartment or a hotel, or just plain sharing the bathroom. Forget air fresheners, that makes it worse! There is the coolest thing called, Just A Drop. You put a drop in the toilet before you go, and voila! 98% of whatever bathroom odor you may have is cut off at the pass. Can you imagine? Where has this stuff been? My girlfriend Jill told me about it and I thought she was pulling my kitty-cat tail! But, no, it’s true, and who wouldn’t want this stuff?

Moving on, I was in Los Angeles, sitting in for Lisa Rinna again on SOAP TALK, and her makeup artist, Adam Christopher, gave me yet another great beauty tip. I am telling you, this guy knows how to make a gal happy. Every time I go there, he turns me on to some new thing that rocks my beauty-product world. Hollywood makeup artists know all the cool secrets. This one is about coconut oil; it is just so good for you. Cooking with it is even making the headlines in the weight-loss world. But did you know that you can buy cold-pressed coconut oil and not only cook with it, but slather it on your body and face if you have really dry skin, as well as put it in your hair and sleep in it? The Filipinos have been doing this forever, and no one has more beautiful, shiny hair than the women of Asia. Since the oil is cold-pressed, you just scoop it into your hands and rub them together – it almost instantly emulsifies into a clear oil – and you apply it to skin and hair generously. One warning: It has that faint scent of coconut that drives men wild, so if you’re not interested in a wild man, I don’t know what to tell ya. I did some research to find the best and settled on Virgin Oil De Coco-Crème Pure Coconut Oil. If you have dry skin and dull hair, this is the product to try.

Love you madly, my beauties! See you next month.