Sarah Swanson Soy Candles help create the Valentine's Day mood

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Hello Gorgeous,
How are your Valentines Day preparations going?
I encourage you that this season can be a season of love for yourself and those around you.
Maybe you have a significant other, and maybe you don't? No worries-by time you shower kind words, acts of love and compassion on those around you-your love cup will be overflowing!

A great way to create a mood of gratitude in your home is to start by lighting a candle. Sarah’s therapeutic candles are hand poured using 100% soybeans grown in the USA with carefully selected botanical oils. Sealed With a Kiss Candles have proudly been featured on Oprah.com and in magazines such as Women’s Health.

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To inspire the beauty of loving oneself through high quality skincare treatments, and natural cosmetic products competitively priced to help women and men reveal their true inner beauty.

About Sarah:

Sarah Swanson believes in helping her clients find the perfect balance…feeling and looking healthy. It shouldn’t be so difficult, but in our chaotic daily lives it sometimes does feel like rocket science.

Sarah is well known in Manhattan beauty and health circles for her solid advice and common sense approach to healthy skin, face and body.

Sarah is a licensed aesthetician whose 5th Avenue practice includes VelaShape™, eMatrix™ and ReFirme – the latest techniques in non-invasive laser treatment. Sarah’s advice is solicited regularly by many publications for insight and feedback, including Quest Magazine, Everyday Health and Avenue.

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Valentine's Day-rub some Sweet Sugar Darlin' on your dry bits from Dixie Bits

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Hello Gorgeous!
See that tub of rich, moisturizing, winter itchy skin relief? It's called Sweet Sugar Darlin' and it's made by Dixie Bits.

It smells and feels luxurious-and it's a winter skin saver as well as a wonderful way to pamper yourself or your Valentine with something that can say "I love you enough to give your itchy skin some relief-now go shower".

Dixie Bits products have no parabens, or phthalates or harmful ingredients in it. It's a cruelty free product line and the sizes are generous and the prices affordable.

I think you should get some for yourself-and one for a friend!

Please take this year's Valentine's Day as a chance to really reach out and love on the ones around you. Write encouraging sticky notes and slip them on the cubicle desk while the person is gone so they can come back to their desk and be surprised.

I feel so strongly that a wee word of encouragement can change a person's mood, their day, and ultimately their life! And you can be the spark that starts it all!

I pledge to make this Valentine's day the most fun, most loving, most service filled year ever! Won't you join me?
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