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I love anything exotic: flowers, recipes, men (but let’s not go there), so I just had to try Pangea Organics’ Japanese Matcha Tea with Acai & Goji Berry Facial Mask. This amazing concoction detoxifies, deep-cleans, tones and hydrates the skin, leaving it feeling soft and radiant. Its delicious texture melts onto the skin, and the scent is heavenly. My skin glows just like it did in the pre-recession days after a facial at a posh spa. This once-a-week do-it-myself indulgence coupled with a mai tai and a bubble bath is a sweet escape that is a foolproof formula for feeling fabulous. ($35, www.moiskincare.com) |
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I got the I-like-to-do-laundry gene from my Irish grandmother. She can (yes, still can—bless her, she’s 80) beat any stain on the street, and she’s never known a cashmere sweater that has shrunk or pilled. But all the recent publicity of the dangers of household chemicals has scared the well-ironed pants off of me (see www.thefamilygroove.com/jan_GreenDays.htm), and I decided to change out my old supermarket laundry detergent for a natural one. After trying Seventh Generation’s Natural Laundry Detergent, I am hooked. It gets my clothes clean and fresh, and it can safely be used to launder delicate garments. Even my sons’ don’t-look-ma-but-we’ve-been-digging-in-the-dirt play clothes get so spotless that even my grandmother would be proud. ($11.99, www.cvs.com) |
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Next month, we're launching a Recipe of the Day column, so I’m on the lookout for the latest and greatest ingredients to dish it up in style. I am positively obsessed with Nielsen-Massey’s Organic Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract. Not only is it pure and natural, but its exotic (there I go again) aroma makes me want to dab it on my wrists and smell it all day. This amazing vanilla enhances the flavor of any recipe. Cookies, cakes and pies—oh my—are definitely more guilt-free when the ingredients we use to make them are au naturel. ($14.95, www.kingarthurflour.com) |
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