Gift Guide: The Body Shop, Sheaffer, Green and Black Chocolate

Savor Shopping for the Ones You Love

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All You Need is Love This Holiday Season

Check several names off your list with sensational gifts from The Body Shop! They sell great products, the in-store sales staff is friendly and informed, and they've been avidly against animal testing from the beginning. Hot for this season? It’s a love thing at The Body Shop. The ethical beauty brand’s recently-launched LOVE ETC... product range has been a huge hit with the brand's devoted following.

How was this fragrance put together? Each 3 part chord has a top note, a middle and a bottom - all working together to create something fuller than when alone, however individually these notes still have their own impact. Fragrances have these same notes.

Here are the ingredients of the LOVE ETC... Notes of pear, neroli, bergamot - combine to create the fragrant top notes. This provides the initial scent of the fragrance. Then comes the notes of jasmine, heliotrope, lily of the valley - this combines to create the middle notes that vibrate across the fragrance. They make up the heart notes of the fragrance. Lastly, notes of vanilla, sandalwood, creamy musk - combine to create the base notes of the fragrance. This ends to linger on the skin longer than the other notes.

LOVE ETC... fragrance is a handbag staple for us now, and is our daytime fragrance which comes everywhere with us. We really do LOVE it!

Our favourite reason to buy at The Body Shop? They always strut out a collection of irresistible limited edition products:

Four limited edition cosmetic collections each year.
Two limited edition white musk collections each year.
Three scented bath and body collections for the Holiday Season.

Now about the upcoming collections. This holiday there will be three different fragranced bath and body product lines. Of course, there will be the Cranberry products as always. Another familiar face is the Vanilla product line. There's also a new fragrance called Black Velvet Apricot... over the moon delicious, sensual.

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Another Body Shop highlight? The Holiday make up collection is an inspired flight of champagne-hues and silver linings. The colour palette is sophisticated and bright, perfect for those festive nights outs with friends.

Gracious Tidings with Green and Black

The Green and Black's White Chocolate bar has a 30% cocoa content and offers a truly creamy, ultra buttery, packed with vanilla-bean - white chocolate experience.

The chocolate bars made by Green and Black’s are organic and very good; they’re available at Target stores and Whole Foods.

Green and Black's organic collection of Dark signature chocolate bars with organic Merlot wine. Bonterra's Merlot is barrel-aged in French oak which accentuates layers of toasty oak-spice, vanilla, chocolate and rich cherry flavours, leading to a soft, yet complex, velvety finish. Beautifully complemented by our intensely flavoured, all Dark chocolate bars tied with ribbons and presented in a desirable gift box. Especially nice is their white chocolate. You needn’t be a white chocolate lover to enjoy it.

Their Maya Gold bar is flavored with orange; there’s also a mint chocolate, a 70% dark chocolate, and more–twelve flavors, in all. The holy grail of Green and Black’s bars is the butterscotch flavor.

Chic Stocking Stuffer: Sheaffer Ballpoint and Pencil Set

Sheaffer 100 Brushed Chrome Ballpoint Pen & Pencil Set The Sheaffer 100 Ballpoint and Pencil Set is sure to please. The brushed chrome finished set is handsome on a desk or in a purse and features brushed chrome caps and barrels with satin chrome trim. This timeless finish makes a powerful statement at school or on the job.The ballpoint features a smooth twist-action mechanism that locks in position during use for firm, controlled writing and includes a Sheaffer ballpoint refill for extra-long write out. The 0.7mm pencil features a protective tip to guard against lead breakage.

Affordably priced, the Sheaffer 100 Ballpoint and Pencil Set is an easy way to offer a gift with meaning, the "Gift of Fine Writing". The highlight of the pen and pencil is the Sheaffer signature wide band and the "White Dot" symbol of quality.

By Si Si Penaloza, Editorial Director, WOMAN.ca

Si Si Penaloza
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