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It is always nice to hear a southern accent in the middle of a room packed full of mostly New Yorkers. I heard a sweet southern drawl recently while at a beauty event I told you about in my last blog. The Night of Green Beauty was held downtown at the James Corbett Salon. Toward the end of the night, I had the pleasure of meeting Suzanne LeRoux, the lawyer-turned skin care guru, behind the skin care line One Love Organics.

We bonded quickly over all things southern and I quickly started quizzing her about her St. Simon, Georgia based skin care company. LeRoux stepped away from the world of law and turned her hobby as a skin care alchemist into a full time gig. Here products are made in America in small batches on St. Simon. What pulled me in and kept me engaged was the magnificent smelling Skin Savior Waterless Beauty Balm. It smells like the best orange vanilla creamsicle you’ve ever smelled in your life!

The balm is one of the lines best sellers and is a work horse of a product. It can be used as a moisturizer, cleanser, cuticle cream and even helps calm fly away hairs! You can also use it along with your mineral makeup for a flawless face finish. While we were talking I dabbed a little on my cuticles. They looked instantly better and well, smelled like a dream! This product has gotten a lot of press, too. LeRoux told me that when Rachel Zoe, the LA based amaze-balls stylist, recommended the product in her daily Zoe Report, One Love Organic’s website crashed from the massive amount of traffic! Not the worst thing to have happen to you, right?

I ended up buying the beauty balm. My main purpose was to try it out on my hands at night. I have been using it. It works and smells heavenly. But I’ve already told you that this stuff smells divine and here is why. It’s full of organic orange peel, vanilla, virgin coconut oil, oat and mango just to rattle off a few of the ingredients.

I took home a sample of Brand New Day Microderma Scrub and Masque. It has a grainy texture and is a fantastic exfoliator. I can’t use it every day but I do try to use it at least three times a week. The pineapple extract in this product mixed with corn starch and sweet pea extract keep my skin looking taught and feeling squeaky clean. The scrub also doubles as a masque that can be mixed three different ways depending if you want to tighten, moisturize or clarify your skin. I have had great results using it as a cleanser but have not tried the masque yet.

Over the years, I’ve tried a lot of different skin care products with varying degrees of results. Once I hit a ‘certain’ age, I realized that I needed to be using the best pharmaceutical grade skin care products that I could afford. I’ve been very pleased with my skin. However, I have become more educated on all of the chemicals in the products I have been using everyday, some even twice a day. I like to think I’ve become more open minded about looking into the naturally derived and even organic skin care products, too. I would not say at this point in my life, that I could go all natural when it comes to skin care - yes, I’ve had some Botox - but I am at least switching it up a little and seeing amazing results without the chemicals and sky high prices, too.

I was not paid for this post and the opinions are 100% mine. Interested in learning more? Check out www.oneloveorganics.com.

Keep up with DJ’s adventures by following her on Twitter @mrsdjduckworth and on Facebook. She posts some seriously off the wall and sometimes mundane photos on Instagram @djduckworth. Find out more at www.iamdjduckworth.com. DJ is a contributing writer and blogger for New York Family magazine and Feast If Forward. She lives in Manhattan with her two boys and the most amazing wiener dog, Leo - woof, woof!