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Red Leaf Home Candle Review--Pineapple Coconut

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Have you ever just wanted to light a candle and drift away to a different place? This candle provides you the ability to do just that. Red Leaf Home really hit the ball out of the park with this Pineapple Coconut candle. Made with pineapple, orange and coconut essential oils blended into coconut oil...you can't really go wrong. The candle is 15.5 oz in size and features 2 wicks and a wooden lid (not pictured). It smells lightly of pineapple mostly with the occasional coconut smell coming through. This is a very fresh and fruity lightly scented candle and is truly great for summertime. I purchased mine at Tj Maxx for $9.99 which is a total steal for such a great candle!

Why Aluminum Free Scares Me

I want to start this out by saying that I know this can be a touchy topic so keep in mind this is just how I feel from my own personal experiences. Up until I started watching beauty guru's on YouTube, I honestly never thought twice about antiperspirant/deodorant and its side effects or any bodily harm. Since last year, I started getting samples or full sized aluminum free deodorants and I only ever used them in correlation with aluminum deodorants so I wanted to try them by theirself. A few weeks ago I decided to "purge" (which I looked up and found it wasn't a possible thing) my armpit pores. There was a point where no matter how much scrubbing I did, my deodorant never came off in the shower. At first I thought it might have been my body wash/loofah combo so I changed it up and used a rag and a sudsier wash with no luck. I was even sweating more and I figured something had to be done. So with trial and error, I started to use witch hazel and go deodorant free until...