Prescribe the Nation

Here in Minnesota during the cold winter months, the air gets dry. It strips the moisture right out of your body. Hands, feet, arms, face, all your skin get dry. It can get especially bad if you are an outdoorsy person. (not me) 

I am a lotion fanatic. I always have lotion around my house. I can't stand it when my hands or feet get dry skin. I would say that I stay pretty well moisturized. But Kaytlin has a lot of trouble with her skin being dry. Normal lotions do not work for her. She has to have much more expensive and quality lotions. 

Right now we are in the process of trying Vaseline's new Clinical Therapy lotion. When I applied it I was able to notice an immediate and lasting feeling of moisture. My hands felt great. It lasted through to the next afternoon. I was surprised that I did not need to continue to apply lotion in order to not feel all dry and scratchy. 

I would not say that the lotion made my skin feel like silk, like some lotions do, but I would say that I felt good and it lasted a really long time. There was no greasy residue, either. I think it works great for difficult skin problems. Like for Kaytlin. She doesn't have a diagnosed skin condition, but she does have issues with dryness and redness. She was able to use Vaseline Clinical Therapy without a skin reaction and with good results after only 1 use. She hasn't used it long enough to know how well it will do long term. Most lotions take time to fix the damage done to her skin through work. 

From Vaseline's Prescribe the Nation:

Vaseline's newest product, Clinical Therapy is a prescription-strength lotion that is available without a prescription.

It started in Kodiak; one of Alaska's many small towns, with a population of 6,000. Due to the location, Kodiak endures an extremely icy climate leaving many of its residents with dull, dry and cracking skin. This very reason is why Vaseline thought the demographic would be perfect to demonstrate the effectiveness of Clinical Therapy Lotion.

Vaseline turned to Petal Ruch, a voice coach and 50-year-old mother of four, who tried the product and felt it really worked, to start a word-of-mouth campaign for new Vaseline Clinical Therapy Lotion.  If she liked it, she could then freely "prescribe" it to anyone else she thought needed it.  Through word-of-mouth, her experience spread to more than 600 townspeople—including 39 cousins, a Russian music group, a knife maker, police detective, owners of fishing vessels, and many others-- whom also discovered that Clinical Therapy works.

View her story here: m80im.com/newsroom/2008/11/11/vaselineclinicaltherapy/

Clinical Therapy Lotion provides 60% more moisture than a prescription lotion, and is available without a prescription.. The best part is that it's not greasy, watered down or too thick and is available lightly fragranced and unfragranced making Clinical Therapy great for the entire family.

If Clinical Therapy is a product you are interested in trying that's great because Vaseline encourages you to use it, share it and "prescribe" it to others. This is an effort to prescribe a healthy skin regimen to people in your community.

Please help us spread the word by posting these beautiful stories on your blog.  There is a story in this campaign that everyone can relate to. I hope you find one.  Here is the link to the Vaseline YouTube page: youtube.com/VaselineTherapy77.

Would you like to try it out? I have several bottles to give away, thanks to our amazingly generous sponsor! However, I can't mail out all 5 bottles while my husband is still out of work. I will be giving them away to people in the community, which is the spirit of Prescribe the Nation. 

I do want to share with my readers, too. So, I will give up some snacks and send out two bottles, 1 each to two different winners. 

Rules:

1. Leave a comment about one of these things:

a. There are 5 videos from users, do you relate to any of these?

b. Visit Prescribe the Nation and check out what people are saying about it. You can also enter to win a trip for 4 to Alaska, or Spafinder gift certificates, one for you, one to prescribe. And the first 45,000, yes forty-five THOUSAND, people who enter will get two bottles of lotion! 

2. For an extra entry, you can tweet about it and leave a comment with your twitter name. 

3. Another extra entry for blogging and linking to this post. Leave a separate comment. 

4. If you go vote for Devon at the bedhead site, I will give you another entry, plus if you comment on the post about it, you will be entered to win something from my etsy store, double score!

The giveaway is for the US only, I hope you understand, I don't want to spend too much money on shipping right now until my husband is working again. 

Giveaway ends January 30, 2009. 

Don't forget to go enter the hundreds of other giveaways at the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival!