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Influenster

Influenster

In my search for free samples every day, I keep stumbling upon Influenster — this morning, I decided to educate myself on what this site is, and if it’s worth joining. Wanted to share with all my readers what I found!

Influenster.com is a product discovery platform and review site that helps members find new products to try and get advice so they can make informed purchases. Already, this sounds incredibly helpful to me and my life – are the cheaper alternatives to a product less quality? The site also works to reward you for being particularly active users, especially if you share a lot on social media. They give several examples of some perks to being a good member:

  • VoxBox campaigns where members receive complimentary full-size products to test and review!
  • Interactive Twitter chats with celebrities and in-the-know experts
  • Fun contests where members can earn sweet giveaways
  • Special discounts on featured brands, services, and more

The only caveat is what you signed up to do in the first place: be an active member to share their opinions with friends and followers on products they use. The more you share, the more rewards you earn.

I’m intrigued – I already have so much to say about products I use that I might as well be earning rewards, getting discounts and free stuff for it anyways, right? Join now by clicking here.

The Honest Company: Sunscreen Saga

You all may have read my blog post on The Honest Company a few weeks back where I lauded Jessica Alba and her team for finding organic, safe, and healthy solutions to common household and beauty products.

I was both shocked and appalled to hear of the latest social media slam on The Honest Company in the past week or so of their sunscreen. Time.com posted an article today highlighting the social media trend of posting your sunburn from using The Honest Company’s 30 SPF suncreen. Some of these photos are staggering, painful, and tough to look at.

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Sunburn Testimonial [http://time.com/3981643/jessica-alba-honest-company-organic-sunscreen-sunburn/]

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Sunburn Testimonial [http://time.com/3981643/jessica-alba-honest-company-organic-sunscreen-sunburn/]

Ouch! The Honest Company defended their product to the Today Show: “the number of complaints received on our own website about our Sunscreen Lotion constitute less than one half of one percent of all units actually sold at Honest.com. We stand behind the safety and efficacy of this product.”

NBC Chicago did some digging and found that the company cut the amount of zinc oxide (the active ingredient in sunscreen that MAKES IT sunscreen) from 20% (normal) to 9.3% (well below average for sunscreen) and attributes this drop in the ingredient to the complaints and lack of protection that the product provides.

Looks like The Honest Company is on the defense for now, but I’m wondering if they’ll be ‘fixing’ their product or making any more public statements. It’s clearly become an issue for users and supporters, as well as their overall brand.

Have any of you guys tried this sunscreen? What do you think about all this?

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