The new Glade Expressions Collection! Beautiful scents and sleek design to fit your home decor!

Cooking, dirty laundry, pets... If you are like me and my family, and you love a clean and lovely smelling home, you most likely buy all kinds of air fresheners to try and see which one works best. From scented candles, to plug-ins, air freshener sprays, and oil diffusers, you name it, we’ve bought and tried them.

I was very excited to get invited to the Glade Expressions BzzCampaign, and could not wait for my BzzKit to arrive! After all, this new collection of fragrance mists and oil diffuser seemed very promising at keeping the house fresh and inviting. And as a welcome added bonus, both the oil diffuser and fragrance mist bottle have a very sleek and beautiful design that will blend right into your home décor. Also, the fragrance mist and the oil diffuser come as starter kits, for which you can buy a refill after they are used up.

I received one coupon for a free Glade Expressions Fragrance Mist starter kit, and one coupon for a free Glade Expressions Oil Diffuser starter kit, in order to try them and review them, and share my personal honest opinion about these products with BzzAgent and all of you.

I decided to buy the Fragrance Mist with fresh pineapple & mangosteen scent, and I bought the Oil Diffuser also with the pineapple & mangosteen fragrance, simply because it was the last and only one available at the store I went to. I happened to have bought the fragrance mist with the cotton & Italian mandarin scent before and had it at home already, which made it a good option to compare two different scents of this product.

I loved the beautiful design of the oil diffuser. Unlike usual glass bottles with oil and little sticks in them, which I always hated and bought only maybe two times ever,  this one is spill-proof, a little “card” that soaks up the oil from a little plastic bottle at the bottom, both well hidden in this beautiful décor like product. Visitors may likely not even realize that this is not only décor, but an actual oil diffuser! I was a little disappointed that I had to go back to my Walmart store at least three times to actually find this item, it seemed like it wasn’t available yet, or it was so popular it had been all out right away.

The Glade Expressions website says, this oil diffuser has a long-lasting fragrance release of up to 30 days long. The first few days I enjoyed the smell a lot, every single time I came into our living room, I got a whiff of this wonderful tropical paradise like scent of fresh cut pineapple with tangy mangosteen notes, mixed with coconut hints and passionflower fragrance. But after a few days already I noticed the scent had disappeared, and not even stepping right next to the diffuser let me smell anything. I literally had to stick my nose right next to the diffuser to pick up some of the fragrance. My opinion? Not good! I expect a oil diffuser to last much longer than this! Especially coming from the Glade brand, which is definitely one of my favorite air freshener brands. Just for its’ beautiful décor and art like look, I still have the diffuser standing in my home to this day. I am still looking for the Apple & Cardamom Spice refill, because I really would love to try this one, since it fits perfectly for this season now! Hopefully I will find it in stores soon.

Next, I would like to review the fragrance mists. The mist itself is nicely distributed and it is a fine mist that will surely freshen your rooms. No matter, if bathroom, your pet’s room or kitchen, this mist will eliminate bad odors and make it smell lovely.  First, the cotton & Italian mandarin fragrance mist is in my opinion a little too strong and I did not care much for it. But the Pineapple & mangosteen is truly a hint of paradise in your own home! I enjoy it very much. I will also definitely buy the other available scents to try them out also.

Overall, I recommend you try both products out for yourselves, both are a very beautiful piece of “art” to have in your home and will freshen your home to make it more inviting, by its’ fragrance and its’ sleek style.

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Check out all the helpful information about the new Glade Expressions collection on their website here, too!

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The UNREAL Candy Unjunked BzzCampaign

The UNREAL Candy Unjunked BzzCampaign

 

Today I would like to tell you about UNREAL Candy Unjunked, which is a new line of candies that is produced without corn syrup, any artificial ingredients, such as artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, without hydrogenated oil, and without GMO’s, while also offering a sugar amount of only 40% of regular candies available.

As a member of BzzAgent, I got an invitation to participate in this campaign. I received a free product coupon and a few Buy one get one coupons to pass out to people, in return for my honest opinion about the product.

So, how did the UNREAL brand come into life? Well, on the UNREAL website it tells the story of a dad who took away his son’s candy from halloween, and the son, of course disappointed and mad, tried to prove to his father, that candy couldn't be so bad. He was searching for information online, just to find out that his father was right all along, and he also found out, that all unhealthy "junk", such as corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors, preservatives and colors, were not there to make the candy taste better. The only purpose they had was to make the production cheaper! So, this is how the development of UNREAL candy started.

 

Now, you may be like me wondering, how can candy with less than half of the regular amount of sugar in it, and without so much other stuff taste good? I was sceptic about this, and when I received my coupon I headed to the store to pick out one variety. The line of UNREAL Unjunked Candy includes five different varities: - Candy coated chocolates, - Candy coated chocolates with peanuts, - Chocolate covered peanut butter cups, and, last but not least, - Chocolate caramel nougat, available with and without peanuts.

First of all, I found it hard to find these at the stores I usually shop at, but thanks to their website I found out that they are available at Walgreens and CVS, besides others. With my free product coupon from BzzAgent I picked out the UNREAL #54 Chocolate covered candies with peanuts, which are the healthier option for regular M&M's with peanuts. My first impression was quite positive, I liked the colorful package and the colors of the candies were also nice, keeping in mind that only natural ingredients are used to produce the candy, including the color of the outside shells. When I tried the candies, I was not very impressed, the chocolate lacked the sweetness I am used to and that I love about chocolate candies. It's hard to describe the flavor in words, but the chocolate tasted "flat", kind of bitter, but even the unsweetened baking chocolate available in stores tastes somehow sweeter than this candy. The peanut inside was okay, but also not really comparable to the competitor's real brand product, in my opinion. It tastes a little too hard, maybe a little over-roasted even.

I would have loved to be able to try out all of the available varieties, but there was only one coupon for a free trial candy. Maybe the other varieties would have been better. For the health facts alone, I will definitely give the other varieties a try soon. I think the UNREAL Unjunked Candy is a great idea and much needed in today’s "junk food" society!