Product Review - Botaneco Garden Baby

~ Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 5:05 AM ~

As a busy mum with 4 kiddos between 9 months old to 8.5 years old, I have started cutting down on doing product reviews to focus on our childcare and family life, home cooking, helping with hubby's administration site of the business and sharing informational articles on my FB fan page so I am only accepting and prioritizing products that can fit into our family dynamics (especially books on parenting or educational stuff, family products, something along those genre)! Today's post is my review on Botaneco Garden Baby range of products.

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Botaneco Garden Baby

About the company/products:

"Every product in the Botaneco Garden Baby range uses organic chamomile extract and organic colloidal oatmeal and eco-certified olive oil which are selected ingredients to suite baby skin. The line has ingredients which are organic and is hypoallergenic, as well as being dermatologically tested & proven. The formulation is free from parabens, silicone, SLS, SLES, colorants, lanolin and DEA, giving parents peace-of-mind that baby is getting gentle, caring cleansing and pampering from the very first day.

Botaneco Garden Baby Organic Chamomile & Oatmeal range uses a unique blend of organic chamomile extract to soothe skin, organic colloidal oatmeal to help protect the skin barrier, while Eco-Certified olive oil moisturizes both skin and hair. It consists of head-to-toe wash, baby body lotion, and facial & body cream. The entire line is developed and produced in Australia."

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I received the following products for my review:

  • Botaneco Garden Baby body Lotion 
  • Botaneco Garden Baby facial & Body Cream 
  • Botaneco Garden Baby head-to-toe Wash

A quick feedback on the packaging of the products - the body cream comes sealed and the lotion as well as the baby wash has this unique turn to open and lock it to prevent wasteful usage. I really appreciate this feature as my kiddos can really press out a big dollop of lotion and baby wash with their strong energetic force hahah.. I also like that the label on the baby wash is water-proof which is longer lasting compared to other products we used where its labels came off after the water soaked through the bottles.

Botaneco Garden Baby

The first thing that came to mind when I opened up the seals and tried the products - the smell... so fragrant! I used the Facial & Body Cream on our kiddos especially after they took their bath. Nice smell and keeps their skin smooth and supple.

Botaneco Garden Baby

As for the body lotion, I keep the bottle around me and used it whenever I feel the weather is dry and stuffy, I think the lotion helps to keep my kiddos' skin moistured. I even used it on my own hands hehehe... The lotion is fast-absorbing and it doesn't leave any greasy feeling after applying. And did I mentioned the nice smell it has?

Botaneco Garden Baby

As for the Head-to-Toe Body Wash, our girls are absolutely loving this! So much that I actually have to hide this bottle and put it higher so that they don't keep using it (okay, fine, fine... I'm that frugal, I want to make good things last as long as I can okay?) But then, all the hiding only to find them sneaking in and using it again the next day! You know the saying when you love something, you find ways to get to it?

In summary, a wonderful range of baby products that I have been given the privilege to try out!  

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It is available nationwide exclusively at Guardian outlets nationwide, and at the e-store at https://online.guardian.com.my.

Prices range from RM22.90 to RM31.90

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Do note that I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the products in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

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Kao’s “Welcome To My Modern Parenthood” Phase 2

~ Posted on Monday, July 24, 2017 at 2:30 PM ~

As a busy mum with 4 kiddos between 7 months old to 8 years old, I have started to really cut down on doing product reviews to focus on our childcare and family life, home cooking, helping with hubby's administration site of the business and sharing informational articles on my FB fan page so I am only accepting and prioritizing products that can fit into our family dynamics (especially books on parenting or educational stuff, family products, something along those genre)

Over a year ago, the "Welcome to My Modern Parenthood" (WTMMP) campaign was launched to help new and anxious parents with minimal to zero know-how in transitioning into effortless, enjoyable parenthood through insights and education and I had a pleasant and wonderful experience reviewing products from Merries and Kao, so when I was contacted recently for another review, I immediately say yes! I mean, good stuff, how can one say no?!!!  

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This year, back by a popular demand, Kao Malaysia launched the Phase 2 of its highly successful “Welcome To My Modern Parenthood” campaign with the expanded “The Secret to My Modern Parenthood” parenting guidebook and enhanced home care solutions with a range of product brands like Merries, Magiclean and Attack.

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Phase 2 of the campaign is to give the consumers an opportunity to interact with Kao's products and learn how to properly use them. The improved guidebook now has a total of 18 chapters with topics on caring for a child into toddlerhood plus tips from experts, doctors and key opinion leaders. A total of 40,000 copies of the guidebook will be distributed this year through NGOs, hospitals and other childcare partners. Excited parents can also download the book for free through this website link: www.kao.com/my/my-modern-parenthood/index.html.

I'm a full-time mummyWe received the following products this time, they are basically the 3 ideal home care solutions:

  • Japan’s No.1* Baby Diaper, MERRIES (M and L size);

  • Japan’s No.1* Home Care Range, MAGICLEAN; 

  • Japan’s No.1* Laundry Brand, ATTACK

* Based on value share data reported by Intage, SRI for the Heavy Duty Laundry Detergent Category. (January 2016 to December 2016)

 

After all these years, I am still impressed with Merries diapers. Just love, love, love their pants diapers, so comfortable and yet snuggly and protectively ensuring no spillout or mess! I did say I love their diapers right? Pictures below taken of our 2nd kiddo when I reviewed Merries diapers back in year 2013 when it entered Malaysian market and now, 4 years on (with 2 more kiddos in the family since then), we are still very much happy and satisfied that our kiddos are still able to reap the benefits of such awesome products as they grow along!

We are also impressed with the Magiclean range of products and have used them in our house as well as in hubby's office. A must have range of products, really!!

As for the ATTACK range of products, I feel that the liquid detergent is not bad as well even though we use powder detergent before this. The detergent smells good and cleans our clothes wonderfully. The softener also made our clothes smooth and soft. Also, do take note the Attack “Hygiene and Anti-Bacterial” range now has a newly created anti-bacterial formulation from Japan, which keeps clothes smelling fresh longer as it offers sweat and odour prevention all day long. Coolness!


To sum up our experience, I'm so ever grateful and blessed to be given the opportunity again to review the wonderful range of products from Kao & Merries and yes, I do believe that they will truly transform your parenting life and makes it way more convenient for you to do your house chores!  

Such true happiness that you can only experience when you know you and your loved ones are in the hands of good quality products and reputable brand name!

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Kao is powering up this year’s campaign by going nationwide – including East Malaysia, with close to 100 road shows and 3 major events at shopping malls in Klang Valley, Penang and Johor Bahru.

There is a roadshow coming up in July 2017, details below:

Roadshow: Date : July 27 – 30, 2017        Venue : Queensbay Mall Penang.

For details please check out www.kao.com/my/my-modern-parenthood/index.html.

WTMMP FB page: https://www.facebook.com/wtmmp/

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Do note that I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the products in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

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Product Review - Samsung Anti-Tangle Turbine Vacuum Cleaner

~ Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 12:07 AM ~

As a busy mum with 4 kiddos between 7 months old to 8 years old, I have started to really cut down on doing product reviews to focus on our childcare and family life, home cooking, helping with hubby's administration site of the business and sharing informational articles on my FB fan page so I am only accepting and prioritizing products that can fit into our family dynamics (especially books on parenting or educational stuff, family products, something along those genre)

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Samsung VC5100 Canister

About the product:

"Samsung Malaysia Electronics recently introduced their newest innovation, the Anti-Tangle Turbine Vacuum Cleaner. Malaysians can now say goodbye to physically removing tangled hair stands and dust from their cleaning tools with their hands! The Anti-Tangle Turbine Vacuum Cleaner is a bag-less cleaner, set to elevate and optimize your household cleaning experience to a fuss-free one.

Samsung’s latest vacuum cleaner is equipped with the brand’s first CycloneForceTM with Anti-Tangle Turbine which blows hair strands, dust and crumbs out of the edge of the turbine fan. This ensures that the turbine fan rotates continuously to provide consistent suction power, and prevents the turbine grille from clogging, saving time on removing entangled hairs in the vacuum with your hands when cleaning.

Powered by a powerful motor with an innovative pick-up brush that adheres to floors for even pressure spread, the Anti-Tangle Turbine Vacuum Cleaner has extreme suction power which quickly and thoroughly sucks up dust, hair and dirt without clogging on various floor surfaces. The new vacuum cleaner also comes with an Anti-Tangle tool which is designed to have two separate airflows for the dust and hair inlet, and the air flow inlet. Thus, preventing hair tangles on the brush bar and shaft of the turbine fan.

For simple and convenient maintenance, the vacuum cleaner comes with an Easy Dustbin. With just the push of a button, you can easily detach the dustbin and empty the contents into a trash can. Additionally, the Anti-Tangle Turbine Vacuum Cleaner’s durable sponge type foam filter captures more dust and can be easily washed and cleaned by simply rinsing it to prevent clogging and maintain its suction power. This latest Samsung innovation also comes complete with a 2-year manufacturer warranty for consumers to have a peace of mind."

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What a godsend awesome timing to receive the email invitation to review the Samsung Anti-Tangle Turbine Vacuum Cleaner as I was excited with the prospect of fully utilizing it as my hubby's company was in the midst to shift to a bigger office unit.

The parts are easy to assemble even for a newbie like me (haha, seriously!). I did a quick browse through the user manuals on how to assemble and operate the vacuum cleaner. Easy and simple to understand instructions with proper pictorial guides and info is available. I like the built-in control buttons on the remote-control handle as they are within easy reach, which allows me to quickly turn the machine on and off and select the optimum suction power while continuing with my cleaning.

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One of the annoying postpartum experiences for all mothers has got to be the hair loss which generally occurs around the third to fifth month post-birth. Just in case you are not aware, our youngest kiddo is 7 months old and I'm still losing hair although they are slowly getting lesser nowadays. So, I'm really impressed that the vacuum cleaner comes with the Anti-Tangle Tool which will not get clogged-up by hairs and/or pet hairs as the dirt goes directly into the dustbin. So, it ends up maintaining the optimum pick-up and cleaning performance and there's no wasting time to remove tangled hair by hand!

Samsung VC5100 Canister

Another awesome feature of the vacuum cleaner is its 3-in-1 accessory pack which offers a choice of accessories to suit different cleaning needs (dusting tool, upholstery tool and crevice tool).

Samsung VC5100 Canister

I like that the vacuum cleaner handle can be extended easily.

Samsung VC5100 Canister

As for the Auto Cord Rewinder which can go up to 7m long, you just need to press a button to rewind it back to its docking port.

Samsung VC5100 Canister

Now let's get to the yucky-eww-whoaaaa part of this review hahah... I'm bit hesitant to post the before pictures but it doesn't make sense to show awesome clean results without grossing you guys with the before conditions, right?

Let's start with what I thought was the cleanest part of our house - gulp... the STUDY ROOM. Reason being, this room has the most minimal number of toys, only 1 entry place which is well covered up with top to floor length curtains as a partitioning purpose, no windows (hence no dust blowing into the room). We had an Ikea rug on the floor as sometimes our kiddos like to sit on the floor to read books and play their small number of toys while I do some homework revision with our oldest kiddo and also help out with administrative works during month-end especially.

I happily turned on the vacuum cleaner and just focus on the rug area. I think I took about 5 minutes to vacuum the rug surface and was kinda grossed out when I see the dirt in the canister. And to think I actually vacuumed the study room a day before! I have no idea where all the dirt comes from but with the 2100W force to suck up the dirt, I'm really glad that we have the chance to review this vacuum cleaner! Goes to show that just because you don't see the dust doesn't mean that it's all clean!

I'm happy that the vacuum cleaner has an easy dustbin which is simple to remove and empty out. What I did to quickly detach it was just a push of a button, twist open the cover (left or right direction to lock or unlock), then tip the contents into the trashcan and then easily slide the dustbin back.

At this point, I'm actually dreading on the outcome of what might be sucked up from our BEDROOM. But review must continue, right? So here goes, the bedroom vacuum cleaning results. To be honest, I quickly did a quick vacuuming with our current vacuum cleaner to minimise my fright and yet... oh boy... look at those dirt and hair! Even though I have cut my hair to very very short (ear level) yet there is still hair being sucked up!

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Final test would definitely be our new office premise. We shifted to a 1400sq unit and it was previously unoccupied for about half year. The premise was however quite tidy so we hold off the vacuuming until we have installed a cassette air-conditioning unit (quite some drilling work done on the ceiling and wall) as well as moved in some new office tables and chairs. More dirt to suck out hahaha!

Pictures below were taken - to show before and after vacuuming process. The carpet floor looks brand new, really! I am so happy!

Samsung VC5100 Canister

To sum up our review, we really love this vacuum cleaner!

Thank you Samsung for this opportunity to try out your awesome machine! 

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Starting at a reasonable retail price from RM369 to RM829, Samsung’s Anti-Tangle Turbine vacuum cleaner is now available at all Samsung’s outlets and authorized dealers.

For more information on this unit, please visit http://www.samsung.com/my/vacuum-cleaners/canister-sc21k5170hg/.

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Do note that I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the products in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

** Note: I have disabled the commenting feature on my blog engine thanks to all the spammers who happily spam my blog every day. If you wish to ask me any questions, you can find me at my Facebook page (I'm there almost every day) or just drop me an email if you wish to maintain some anonymity.
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