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Lather's Delicious Cranberry Sugar Scrub

This is truly the best sugar scrub on the planet!! Trust me, you will fall in love with it and will want to share it with all your friends (it makes a great gift).

There are lots of great sugar scrubs on the market, but one element that I find with other sugar and salt scrubs is that they tend to be too oily and slippery. This one contains wonderful therapeutic oils without being overly oily and slippery.

Lather's Cranberry Sugar Scrub provides therapeutic benefits from its many botanical oils such as sesame, sweet almond, kukui nut, macadamia nut and sunflower seed, which moisturize and soothe your skin.

The pure turbinado sugar granules and cranberry seeds provide gentle exfoliation to remove dead skin cells, leaving your skin silky smooth. This delightful and delicious sugar scrub polishes your skin and rinses clean. It's the best sugar scrub you'll ever try!!

It retails for $38.00 for 10.0 oz and is available online (www.lather.com) or at any Lather boutique:

• San Jose, CA: Lather Santana Row
• Pasadena, CA: Lather Historic Old Town
• Scottsdale, AZ: Lather Kierland Commons
• New York City: Lather Spa

A dolce vita day at Dolce Salon & Spa

Are you in need of some relaxation and pampering? If so, indulge yourself at Dolce Salon & Spa where you can transform your look with a new hairstyle from one of their talented stylists, dazzle your hands with a stylish manicure and don’t forget that it’s sandal-wearing season, so you might want to get a pedicure, too. And when you’re done on the salon side, I encourage you to waltz on over to the spa side from some relaxation and rejuvenation.

Dolce Salon & Spa is a fast-growing salon and spa in Chandler, Arizona, which is 15 miles southeast of Phoenix. It opened for business in February of 2002, and has 40 hair stations, 10 pedicure stations, 12 manicure stations, 17 spa treatment rooms, 1 Vichy room, a café, a retail store, bridal suite and a relaxation room, all totaling more than 12,000 square feet. According to Dolce, it’s the largest salon & day spa in the southwestern United States.

I recently spent an afternoon at Dolce Salon & Spa getting a fabulous anti-aging facial and a relaxing aromatherapy body massage. The experience was delightful.

Lotion for your hair? Absolutely!

Every time we get on the Internet, turn on a television or read a magazine, we are bombarded with advertising for anti-aging skin care products to help us look younger or a new hair product that will give us more volume or shine. Much of it is marketing hype, but some of it is worthy of our time and dollars.

I'm always testing out new products, so when I find one that delivers results, I have to write about it.

Most women put lotion and moisturizers on their skin everyday, but do they do the same for their hair? Probably not. Most people shampoo, condition and spritz a styling product or two on their hair and dash out the door.

I have to admit that was pretty much my routine, too. However, I recently added another product to my morning routine. It’s a great product called Tonic from New York-based Bumble and bumble, one of the best selling brands in the beauty and salon industry. Bumble and bumble has talented stylists, passionate platform artists and innovative products, such as Tonic.

Tonic is lotion for your hair. It smoothes and nourishes your hair, just as a good moisturizer does for your skin. Tonic contains vitamins, such as vitamin E, and numerous botanicals including rosemary, tea tree, lemon grass, and peppermint.

With all these aromatic botanicals in Tonic, it's not surprising that its aroma is very pleasing. You can't go wrong with this product. It delivers results that your hair will be grateful for and a nice scent that your nose will love. And you will love how great it makes your hair look and feel.

If you want to give your hair a treat, pick up Tonic at a nearby salon. To find one near you, visit Bumble and bumble's Web site and click on “store locator”.