Indulgent, Not Expensive

 You can count on St. Ives to bring quenching skin care that not only only makes your skin feel good but also pleases with delicious scents.

St. Ives Triple Butters Creamy Vanilla Hydrating Body Wash not only sound scrumptious, the 100% natural moisturizers leave the skin feeling soft and silky smooth.

St. Ives Triple Butters Creamy Coconut Hydrating Body Wash contains a rich blend of Jojoba, Shea and Cocoa Butter to deliver triple the moisture and leaves skin feeling soft and silky smooth

Follow-up with St. Ives Naturally Indulgent Advanced Body Moisturizer with Coconut Milk and Orchid Extract for a deep moisturizing finish that is easily absorbed into the skin. The natural Orchid Flower Extract contains antioxidants said to be skin calming agents.

All are especially appreciated in the harsh winter, very affordable and are animal cruelty-free.

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Deliciously Fragrant Baked Goods for the Bath

Lemon Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin, Coconut Macaroon, Chocolate Chip Cookies….

No, you’re not reading the wrong products review page. This is not our Food Review site. These are some of the fabulous new shampoo/shower gel/ bubble bath elixirs from Philosophy.

How do they do it? Philosophy keeps coming out with new mouth-watering body washes with the fragrance of delicious baked goods and tempting comforting desserts. Pumpkin Spice, Red Velvet Cake, Double Rich Hot Cocoa, Warm Pear Cobbler, Gingerbread, Cinnamon Buns.

And the delicious scents are not the only plus—these magical liquids can do triple duty as shower gel, bubble bath and shampoo, which will leave your hair soft and fragrant. The formula is so rich you might find you don’t need that conditioner. This means you only have to take one bottle with you into the shower-- at home, while traveling, even camping. Raspberry Mouse, Oatmeal Raisin, Pink Frosted Layer Cake…..

And many of these scents are available in clever “cookie” tins ($30), charming classic cookbooks ($35) and bake shoppe-boxes ($30) that make great gifts, especially for the holidays.

And after you’re all showered and refreshed, try the new Philosophy make-up, a selection of natural looking cosmetics for eyes, cheeks, lips and face that will leave you with a beautiful glow.

http://www.philosophy.com

For Him, For Her, For Her

Interesting thing about this line. It is marketed to guys but many women love the products for themselves. And why not? AXE Just Clean Shampoo, for instance, provides a fresh scent and invigorating feel you will notice. This lively wake-up scent is loved by men and women alike. And your hair will feel soft and manageable. he 12 oz plastic bottle fits easily in the hand and it is easy to open. This scent is wonderful and now there are 4 more new scents marketed to men but coveted by women--for a total of more than a dozen different fragrances.

Axe Shock—deep sea mint and menthol shocks you awake
Fever—Brazilian Hot Mud and Dragon Fruit--refreshing and the body spray has Brazilian Orange essence
Recovery—who wouldn’t want this to slough off the night before and start the day fresh?
Snake Peel—shower scrub with desert minerals and cactus oils to exfoliate and renew.

And the price cannot be beat-- $3.99 for a 12 fl oz bottle of the body washes and $4.99 for the body sprays.

Sweet Lime and Cedar Season

Just because the weather has been yin-yanging in and out of Spring—a delicate crocus here, golf ball size hail, there-- doesn’t mean that you can’t surround yourself with your own personal warmth, light and fragrance. Sweet Lime & Cedar from British fragrance house Jo Malone was introduced last fall and now the line has expanded to include Shower Gel, Body Crème, a Home Candle, and the newest, a Body Oil. Now you can completely immerse yourself in this most lovely fragrance from dawn to dusk.

The fragrance itself is, like all of the scents from Jo Malone, singular. The first whiff of Sweet Lime & Cedar will transport you to the land where its inspiration was born, Siam, now Thailand. Top notes such as Kaffir Lime, Blood Orange, Spearmint and Pink Pepper along with middles notes that include Clary Sage, Coconut, Coriander, Lavender, layered on base notes such as Cedarwood, Amber and Tamarind. How deliciously delightful and at the same time, subtle, mysterious and unmistakable.

Jo Malone's unique philosophy encourages you to experiment with scent. Each of her original fragrances was designed to be worn alone or layered on the skin. By combining two or three, you can create an unexpected signature scent of your own. Think Wild Fig and Cassis, veiled with Honeysuckle and Jasmine or Amber and Lavender combined with Nutmeg and Ginger.

The fragrance collections can be combined as you wish and can be elegantly gift-boxed. Sweet Lime & Cedar Fragrance Collection makes a thoughtful and beautiful gift for you or for someone else. Or both.

Find it at Jo Malone Shops, http://www.jomalone.com/, and specialty stores including Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue and select Neiman Marcus stores.

Snickerdoodle in the Shower

It is Philosophy’s philosophy that every day is a holiday. And the holiday collection of mouth-watering scents and fragrances will put even the grouchiest grump in a better mood to start the day. One unique Philosophy product is their 3 in 1 shampoo, shower gel and bubble bath elixir. It really can be used for any of the three purposes, and it does what you ask of each.

This multi-tasking, award-winning shampoo, shower gel and bubble bath formula cleans and conditions hair and skin in one easy step leaving them feeling soft, smooth and smelling delicious. It is a gentle yet thorough cleanser that will send your senses reeling with an array of fragrances so vast that you could try a new one every day for almost two months and still not have experienced all of them.

Some of the seasonally inspired scents include: Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Caramel Apple, Black Licorice, Café au Lait, Double Rich Hot Cocoa, Spicy Pear Cobbler, Orange Cranberry Spritzer, Angel Cakes, Snickerdoodle, Gingerbread--hungry yet? (No, we didn’t put these in the wrong products review page--they only sound and smell like they belong in our food review blog.) The flavor fragrances will delight anyone and inhaling the fresh food aromas may even help satisfy food cravings… maybe.

Our philosophy is that is that even if Philosophy made no other product except the fabulous 3 in 1, they would have lived up to their philosophy.

Just one suggestion--since the elixir is so deliciously thick and rich, it would be easier to get the liquid out of the container if it came with a pump. Idea?

About $16 to $20 each. And worth every cent--scent.