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A perfect soak: A bath you can feel good about, during and after
By Samantha Critchell
Associated Press
For a beginner’s bath, one needs a tub, water — maybe some soap.
But as one becomes a more experienced bather, the list of essentials grows. After lathering up in a creamy cleanser or silkening the skin with a rich moisturizer, could you ever go back to just water and soap?
The beauty industry knows just how unlikely that would be and has plenty of luxurious products that help create an at-home spa experience. Many are made of natural and sometimes even sustainable ingredients.
Some choices:
* EO Ylang-ylang and Cedarwood Bubble Bath is made with coconut oil.
* Tact’s Plants of the Earth Olive Tree Body Cleanser is infused with olive extract, ginseng root, protein-rich cottonseed and vitamin B.
Exfoliate
* Lemon Sugar Body Polish by June Jacobs Spa Collection scrubs the skin with emollient sugar granules and also softens with natural oils and jojoba.
There is a companion Peppermint Hand and Foot Polish in this collection that exfoliates with lactic acid and jojoba beads.
* Hugo Naturals Himalayan Pink Salt Scrub uses hand-mined salt from ancient sea-salt deposits with high levels of mineral and magnesium to exfoliate.
Moisturize
* The Body Shop’s Rich Plum Body Butter is made of plum kernel oil, sesame seed oil, babassu oil, soya oil and cocoa butter. Its scent has citrus, cassis and grape top notes. Some of the ingredients are obtained through the company’s fair trade program.
* Alaffia’s Lavender Mint Shea Butter Moisturizing Lotion is made with unrefined shea butter, a traditional skin-care ingredient in west Africa.
* Me! Bath Ice Cream is a bath fizz with a mix of oils, minerals, epsom salt and fragrance. The product is biodegradable, paraben free and uses ethically sourced natural ingredients, the company says.
Relax
* Origins Peace of Mind Tension Releasing Vapor Bath is a bath milk with basil, peppermint and eucalyptus extracts.
* Lush’s Geo Phyzz bath bomb is made of two types of salts, volcanic and sea, as well as red clay from Hawaii’s island of Molokai.
* The Satinjet Maia by Methven is a handheld, hydrotherapy shower head intended to be used as a conventional shower as well as a water massager. It also has a vitamin C filter that eliminates chlorine. he shower head is considered low-flow to meet water conservation standards.
* Spa NK Sleepyhead Bath Oil features essential oils from lavender, petitgrain, bay and patchouli .
* Crabtree & Evelyn La Source Revitalizing Mineral Muscle Soak brings ocean elements to the tub. Dead Sea salts, algae and marine extracts are blended with peppermint, which is known to cool sore muscles.
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