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Pacifica Island Vanilla Collection — Bottling Up A Vanilla Sky

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Vanilla is often dismissed as a boring flavor, the preference of the conformity prone and unimaginative.

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Holiday Gift Guide from A to Z — Moving on to D, E, F

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Last week, we kicked off our A to Z Holiday Gift Guide coverage by taking a Sesame Street-worthy approach to the task, tackling items corresponding to the first three letters of the alphabet, with A standing for Art Deco, B for Blossoms, and C for Color Blocking.

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Holiday Shopping From A To Z — Let’s Start With The ABCs

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You’re probably getting ready to rock around the Christmas tree which, of course, means finding just the right gifts to place underneath those fragrant branches.

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L’Occitane Limited-Edition Shea Butter Collection Celebrates Burkina Faso

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When Olivier Baussan founded L’Occitane in his native Provence back in 1976, he envisioned a socially responsible company that would work in tandem with the native farmers in each region from which botanical ingredients were derived, hence creating a model built on sustainability and solidarity.

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Pacifica Island Glow Coconut Crushed Pearl Luminizing Body Butter — A Shining Victory?

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Last week, I mentioned that Pacifica founder Brook Harvey Taylor would be making her QVC debut on August 2nd, introducing Pacifica’s new Island Glow collection, a five-item selection of body butters, scrubs, and lip balms meant to leave skin glistening.

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Strawberry Fields Forever– Slatkin & Co Strawberry Patch Scented Candle

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Tropical fruits like coconut, passionfruit, guava, and mango tend to get special treatment in the summer season, when our minds are flooded with visions of exotic island destinations, rustic bard and nightclubs with steel drum bands, performances by hula dancers donning grass skirts and lei necklaces, and trays of frozen cocktails adorned with toothpicks bearing paper umbrellas.

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Summer Skin Savers Part 3 — After-Sun Soothers And Lovely Lip Care

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In the first and second installments of our Summer Skin Saves package, we focused on protection — whether via a round-up of self-tanners that offer a healthy faux glow or through a selection of tinted face moisturizers with SPF protection and beach-ready sunscreen lotions and sprays.

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Lavanila The Healthy Body Wash 2-in-1 Shower & Shave Review

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Imagine all the time, bathroom space, and money you’d save if you only had to buy one multi-tasking product to both cleanse your skin and prepare it for shaving.

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A Body Oil With Carte Blanche — Lierac Paris Sensorielle Oil’s Softening White Flower Blend

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Hope you had a fantastic Fourth of July weekend!

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Get Some Polish With Shiseido Refining Body Exfoliator

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Usually, the word “scrub” gives me pause— partly because I listened to the TLC “No Scrubs” anthem a bit excessively, but mainly because my skin is so sensitive that body polishes grate my skin like a paper shredder on speed.

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