And That is All That Was Left of the DOVEBAR

August 11, 2011 By Momstart 17 Comments

I received a coupon to try the DOVEBAR. I really wanted to try the new peanut butter flavor (peanut butter in ice cream is a favorite of mine), but I couldn’t find it local to me. So I purchased a box of Caramel Swirl with Milk Chocolate Cashew which caramel ice cream is another favorite of mine. I’ve never had a DOVEBAR before. I’ve eaten their ice cream and liked it, but ice cream bars, are often more expensive than ice cream so we don’t keep our freeze stocked with them unless there is a sale and coupons. So summertime is full if ice cream sales and tons of coupons. But here is another problem with buying ice cream on a stick.

This is all that’s left!…….

It goes way too fast. And I’m guilty of eating the entire box myself. I didn’t even share the Caramel Swirl with Milk Chocolate Cashew DOVEBARS.

To celebrate 55 years of the perfect marriage of ice cream and chocolate, DOVE Ice Cream is adding even more chocolate to every DOVEBAR and introducing delicious new flavors, including: Peanut Butter Swirl DOVEBAR, and three mouth-watering new pints, including Chocolate Peanut Butter, Chocolate Dulce de Leche and Chocolate Cherry Amaretto. DOVEBAR was also recently featured on the TODAY Show as the #1 overall ice cream bar in a taste test from Cook’s Country Magazine.

DOVE was also at Blogher and everyone was trying it left and right. YUM YUM YUM.

I received a free sample.

Filed Under: review Tagged With: Dove, dove ice cream, DOVEBAR, Dulce de Leche

Did You See The Smith Winter Mitchell Ads Debut During Mad Men?

September 15, 2010 By Momstart 2 Comments

So, did you see the smart advertising with Mad Men? I missed them just as I missed Mad Men, but I remember seeing a ton of tweets about how Good Mad Men was. One of my favorite PR agencies sent me this information and I wanted to know what your thoughts were on it?

The Smith Winter Mitchell Agency stands for many things, but no mission is more important than always expanding the creative and entertainment boundaries of advertising. Recently, Smith Winter Mitchell Agency has hit a hot streak landing a host of big accounts, which include Dove, Breyers, Hellmann’s, Klondike, Suave Hair, and Vaseline. All really great brands if you ask me.

The six vignettes aired during the show and are available online, in various places including on a dedicated Smith Winter YouTube channel, which can be found here: www.youtube.com/smithwinter.

Check out the Breyers Ad:

The historical angle of the branded vignettes plays perfectly in the context of the series, as the vignettes were created specifically for the environment in which they will air. I think it’s right out of a man’s world. Do you notice how the woman is wearing pink and brings all the color to the room? Makes me wish I watched Mad Men just to laugh at it.

What did you think? Yeah, I’m in an advertising mood today if you can see the theme with the posts. LOL.

I received a few product samples in exchange for this post. This in no way affects my opinion.

Filed Under: Announcement Tagged With: advertising, Breyers, Dove, Mad Men, Mitchell Ads, Smith Winter

Albert Pujols’ Journey to Comfort Dove Men + Body & Face Wash Giveaway

July 6, 2010 By Momstart 228 Comments

Dove Men + Care Body’s last campaign was centered around football. I don’t know that much about football, other than it’s America’s top rated sport, but during the summer time it’s baseball. I love baseball, going to watch a game is my favorite Sport and a great American past time. Dove Men + Care Body & Face Wash combines male cleanliness, moisturizer with baseball champions calling it “Journey to Comfort.

Video of Albert Pujols’ “Journey to Comfort”:

Missed out on what I’ve been talking about? Read my Dove Men + Body Review from the past.

Dove Men + Care Body & Face Wash is the only men’s body wash to be formulated with ultra-light MICROMOISTURE technology, a unique gel technology that activates on skin during lather to guard skin against discomfort.

Available in three variants:

Clean Comfort:

Refreshing cleansing gel that rinses off easily with a mild formula

Extra Fresh:

Extra fresh cleansing gel that rinses off easily with a touch of menthol for a cooling sensation

Deep Clean:

Deep cleansing gel that rinses off easily with purifying grains

The summer time months seem to make my skin and my husband’s skin drier. So we are on the look out for something that can moisturize as well as clean. The Body & Face Bar thoroughly cleanses skin while fighting dryness with Dove signature ¼ moisturizing cream. Dove Men + Care Body & Face wash sent us another sample to try. I can’t use it on my face because I have extra sensitive skin and can’t use anything except water on my face. (even sun block makes my skin burn). I do love the smell though! Love IT!!! We also received another Shower tool that was created to give an even better body wash experience by delivering maximum lather and maximum scrub in each shower. It really looks like it was made for a man. It’s a man’s shower tool. We’re going to donate the shower tool and the samples that my husband doesn’t use. He likes the scent to, but we’ve decided to donate as much as we can from my blog because he can purchase more if he wants some. Thank you Dove for providing us with enough samples so that we could donate a few to charity too!

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Filed Under: giveaway Tagged With: Albert Pujols, body wash review, Dove, Face Wash Review, Journey to Comfort

Dove Men and Care are celebrating the Man in your life and his “Unsung Moments”

February 11, 2010 By Momstart 5 Comments

My husband has lots of moments, as do many men and we just don’t talk about them right? Oh wait, we’re supposed to be discussing the point at which a man officially grows up. Does that really happen? I mean, they graduate from high school, get a job or go to college and then get a job, then they get married or do a variation of these things and they are an adult right?

Grown up or not, I wouldn’t trade the fact that he knows how to get in the floor with the kids and be a silly dad. Dove recently came out with a line for men and my husband jumped right on the bandwagon of trying a new product made for men, I honestly at this time of night can’t remember what product it was that he tried but I know he uses it for moisturizing. I can just picture the dark Dove bottle on our armoire.

Dove developed MEN+CARE so men can literally be comfortable in their skin. Built on the Dove brand’s heritage in cleansing, moisturizing and care, the new MEN+CARE products offer great cleansing combined with Dove moisturizers to provide total skin comfort. Dove MEN+CARE is dermatologist recommended and clinically proven to fight skin dryness without irritation or tightness.

Here you can find a printable coupon for $1.00 off either one Dove Men + Care Body and Face Wash, one Body and Face Bar, or one Shower Tool. Dove invites you to celebrate your man’s unsung moments with a Dove Men + Care Contest hosted by Brickfish. You can win a backyard makeover. What you need to do to enter is submit a story, photo, or video about a man in your life. Visit Brickfish.com to view the Celebrate Your Man’s Unsung Moments contest entries, or to submit your own entry, or to read the official contest rules. This contest ends on March 22, 2010.

But while you’re thinking about it here is a great video from Dove:

I will be receiving a Dove product for free from Dove for posting this information.

Filed Under: Announcement Tagged With: Brickfish, coupon, Dove, Men + Care, Men and Care, unsung moments

Beauty Tips From Ponds, Q-tips, Dove and Vaseline for me and for you

November 1, 2009 By Momstart 467 Comments

Ponds invited me to participate in a 30 day challenge with the Ponds Cleansing wipes. They sent me a package of Ponds and a package of Olay. It only took me two nights to figure out that I love Ponds over Olay. Maybe it was an already small preference against Olay, but as soon as I opened it I couldn’t stand the smell. I used the Olay first because I wanted to try and have an open mind to both packages. I also did not like the texture of the Olay cleansing wipe. So there were two strikes against the Olay Cleansing Wipes.

I then tried the Ponds Cleansing Wipes. I loved the smell. I love pulling them out and wiping them on my nose and all around my face. Sick huh? The texture felt lighter than the Olay Cleansing Wipes and made my face fell fresh. So in two days time I found that I like Ponds and not Olay.

I’ve been sharing tips on the widget to the right for a month and now I’m signed up for another month. Here are a few sample tips that were found on the widget last month.

Loose, wavy hair is a hot trend. To create the laid back style of loose waves; disperse Dove Curl & Sculpt Defining Mousse through hair and braid into sections. When hair is dry, undo the braids and finger comb through it for a free, effortless look.

Getting home late from the party and too tired for your normal makeup removal routine? Stash Pond’s Wet Cleansing Towelette in your bedside table for fast and easy makeup removal…you don’t even need water. They have an exclusive cleansing system, with oil- and dirt-trapping fibers, that works like a magnet to remove up to 40 percent more make-up than other leading towelettes to keep you looking your best. One less regret in the morning.

It’s important to take care of your underarms just like the rest of your skin. Dove deodorant is introducing a new at-home beauty treatment to help care for your underarms– The PitiCure™. Simply put, a PitiCure is to your underarms as a pedicure is to your feet. It is a simple three-step process that cleanses and keeps underarms stubble free for longer. Go to the videos tab and find out how to give yourself an at-home PitiCure.

Trying to fit in that evening workout class and short on time? Throw a pack of Pond’s Wet Cleansing Towelettes in your purse to help remove make-up before your workout and wipe off sweat afterwards. Their oil-and dirt-trapping fibers work like a magnet to remove dirt and oil, removing up to 40 percent more make-up than other leading towelettes, even waterproof mascara. Your skin will stay looking fresh while on the go

I received a package from Unilever in thanks for hosting the widget last month, I’ve been sitting here trying for the life of me to remember what came in the package and what I did with that package. This house has been like a mail center for the past few months. Most of it I’m trying to send to charity but I think this box got lost in the shuffle. Makes me sad, but hopefully since they are offering one small box of assorted products for one of my readers then you will get to see what’s in the box and enjoy it. I’m sure I’ll find it one day and it will be like Christmas.

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Gossip Girl NYC real stories revealed with Dove

April 26, 2009 By MomStart 2 Comments

My sister loves to watch and read Gossip Girl. It is one of the only shows she watches now that she has a full time job. So I hear about things, and well Dove wanted me to make sure everyone knows about Monday night’s kick off to the Real NYC Stories Revealed.

The video series will introduce each story in a 90-second airing during the last commercial break of Gossip Girl on The CW beginning tomorrow night Monday April 27. The finale of each girl’s story will be available on-line or www.cwtv.com/dovegofresh.

What’s Behind each episode?

A new line of soap

Dove Go Fresh has partnered with The CW in these videos. Gossip Girl is rated the number one show for 20-something women (which explains why my sister loves it and I haven’t seen a single episode (I’m almost 30)). Jessica Szohr is promoting the series in celebration of the launch of the NEW Dove Go fresh Burst Body Wash.

These real girls have followed their passions to define their own successes in life. Their real stories are being shared to encourage all 20-something girls to live life with a fresh perspective and inspire others to pursue their dreams as they juggle common life pressures such as careers, relationships, beauty, finances, family and friends. The four real girls are:

Chrissie Miller: fashion designer and founder of the Sophomore apparel brand

Faythallegra Coleman: emerging Brooklyn-based filmmaker and writer

Dani Stahl: style director for Nylon magazine, jewelry designer and “IT” girl

Lara Meiland-Shaw: co-founder of a Lara Hélène Bridal Atelier and philanthropist