Up Your Game With frank Body & Facial Scrub

I love the smell of coffee, but ugh I've never developed a taste for liking to drink it.  Courtesy of frank body and facial scrub I've found a good use for the stuff though.  I've been trying out frank which uses coffee to help you get your skin clean and healthy for the last week and it's been working great!

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Hey why should the ladies be the only ones to have clean skin?  Guys should have healthy skin too!  Men don't want products filled with fragrances and moisturizers and by using frank's coffee-based scrub a guy can get very clean through actually getting really dirty.  #RealMenScrub and that is the key, whether in the shower or leaning over the bathroom sink get dirty and massage frank thoroughly into your skin.  For best results leave it on for 5-10 minutes and then scrub and wash away.  You'll walk away with your skin and feeling cleansed and soothed with the a scent of coffee lingering in the air.

I used the frank Coconut Coffee Body Scrub and it really made a difference for me.  During the winter months, I get really sensitive skin from being cooped up inside with all the dry furnace air.  I noticed that my skin felt really hydrated and much more comfortable than I've felt during this time of year for a long time.  The blend I used contained roasted coffee grounds mixed with sea salt to scrub away dry flakey skin plus brown sugar, coconut flakes and coconut oil to help cleanse and clarify.  It also threw into the mix grape seed oil and jojoba beads to help with soothing and moisturizing my skin. 

frank coffee body scrub let me feel pampered without feeling feminine.  I appreciated that while my wife and kids appreciated how frank left my face feeling as I found them caressing it and telling me how nice I felt.  Who wouldn't enjoy that attention!  Plus it is the time of year for holiday parties and frank really helped me get cleaned up for a spiffy night on the town with my lovely lady.

Because it helped me up my game frank body scrub gets A Geek Daddy nod of approval.  For more information about frank, visit us.frankbody.com or connect with them on social media on Facebook or Twitter.  At $17.95 for a resealable package of frank body scrub this could be a great holiday present for the guys you may be shopping for .... hint hint.

I partnered with the Life of Dad - The Social Network for Dads and frank to test out this product that looks like dirt but makes your skin feel great along with a great group of dad bloggers.  Speaking of dirt, if there is any Life of Dad blogger I know that is an expert at getting dirty it is Dad or Alive.

Dad or Alive - Check out his blog!

You know Dad or Alive always is getting his kids into trouble, I wonder what mess he's getting them into now?! I'm sure that frank's will be able to help scrub their troubles away...you do have to get dirty before you can get clean!

Disclaimer:  I was compensated for my participation in this Life of Dad promotion by frank_body.  The opinions are my own.

A Nostalgic Look at Youth & Comic Strips

My 4 year old son has a small teddy bear he drags along with him everywhere that looks remarkably similar to Frank in the comic strip Frank and His Friend so when I saw this panel from the new book FRANKAND HIS FRIEND:  SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION by Curio and Co. I couldn’t help but chuckle.

Frank is the stuffed toy in this cartoon series that tags along with his “friend” the boy who owns and loves him.   The comics are filled with humorous reflections of life through the eyes of a child’s toy – you can’t have a purer prism to filter life moments than that.  This table top coffee book is a collection of 70s era newspaper comic strips that bring you back to a time when most adults started their morning or wrapped up their evening supposedly reading about world events but more likely were perusing the comics page.  In today’s world of the Internet and satellites where everything so “right now” in our faces, it is nice, maybe you could say nostalgic, to remember a time when newspaper comic strips were popular culture that were talked about at the office water cooler or the lunchroom at school.

FRANK & HIS FRIENDS is a combination of childhood adventures in the style of Calvin & Hobbs with the 70’s era pop culture feel of Pete’s Dragon.  The book jacket notes the comic strips are from illustrator CLARENCE ‘OTIS’ DOOLEY whose work was syndicated across the country from 1975 to his untimely death in 1986.  It notes “However, though Frank and His Friend was published for only nine years, it has continued to inspire artists. From Arthur Bloomer’s Rumpus Room Rascals to the tow-headed underdog of Raining Cats and Hamsters, most of our favorite characters of the last twenty years owe something to the influence of Frank and His Friend.”

You may read that and go WOW! that's incredible, but I don't recall ever hearing about this author or his comic strip Frank & His Friends...don't feel bad because there is NO such person.  The fact is that Frank & His Friends isn't a collection of old newspaper strips but rather a brand new cartoon meant to replicate a bygone era created by the staff at the publishers of CURIO & CO.  To immerse the readers into this experience they've gone as far as to create a fictional author and back story surrounding the comic strip to enhance the nostalgia value and authentic feel of their creation.  In reference to this the publisher has noted, "This allows Curio & Co. to poke fun at today's impatient culture and create an 'instant heirloom' for collectors who want their history in half the time." They point out, "Dooley, of course, is as imagined as Frank.  He's just one more character in the sprawling fictional landscape of Curio & Co., which has created something more than a new paperback here.  It's an entry point to a world of intertwining back-story threads that are as much fun to unravel as the imaginative pathways of our childhoods."

What is nice about Frank & His Friends is that there is a Norman Rockwellish tone to the artwork and messages in the comic strips that also makes this an attractive publication to share with older generations.  The crisp artwork with its simplistic themes and youthful tones can also be shared with  younger generations too as a fun children's bedtime story or a nice fireside read on a cold winter day.

My father is notoriously hard to shop for when it comes to getting presents for him.  Yet as I write this post I’m having flashbacks of him reading the newspaper comics while drinking coffee every morning before work as we got ready for school and our Sunday morning ritual of rushing home from church so we could watch Little Rascals & Lone Ranger reruns together on TV.  I believe I may have just found a perfect gift by wrapping up Frank & his Friend: Special Collector’s Edition to put under the Christmas tree for him this year.

The FRANK & HIS FRIENDS: SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION is 128 pages of fun priced at $19.95. I’d encourage you to pick it up as a great addition to any home library’s book shelf or a wonderful gift for a loved one.  

For more information, visit:  http://www.curioandco.com/

DISCLAIMER:  I received a complimentary review copy of this book from the publisher.  The thoughts and opinions in this article are my own.