Ooooh! That Gwynnie! She beat me to it!

        

I was walking through the Brussels train station, looking in the window of a pharmacy and lamenting on whether or not I should do post on beauty products in Europe.  

Pharmacy's here in Europe never cease to amaze and intimidate. They aren't anywhere as massive as Rite Aid or CVS but instead, small little shops, their illuminated green cross like a beacon urging you to come inside and explore their exotic beauty treasures.

 Inside, row upon row of shampoos, lotions, soaps, and assorted sprays for an assortment uses, brands you've never heard of but look really fancy because they are all foreign, beg to be picked up and taken home. They are almost always picked up, smelled and examined,  but hardly ever taken home.
It's overwhelming. And I want it all.
What's stopped me from venturing into this magical land of European beauty products?
Well, for one,  the massive list of items I've just requested and am having sent from back home.
And Two, my hesitance and utter laziness to walk around the store with a translator trying to decipher the function and what's inside all these precious foreign products.
 I know, I know,  Trés layzeee! ( i made that last word up)
I mean, do you know how long it's taken me to find great smelling organic body lotion that leaves my skin silky smooth without parabens or animal testing in my own country let alone another??? And that's in English.

Anyway.
This is why I love Goop.
 Gwyneth makes it so easy and is clearly not lazy or intimidated by the French language or pharmacies like yours truly. Her posts are always useful, fun and trés chic!
 Maybe I'll get that little translator out after all!

Chcck it out!
GOOP Get : The French Pharmacy
http://www.goop.com/newsletter/114/en/