As a teen, summer days were spent in the quest for the perfect tan. With cocoa butter and baby oil, my friends and I baked in the midday sun.
Fast forward to adulthood and the breaking news health headline reads: “Eighty percent of your lifetime sun damage occurs before age 18.”
The information has come too late for us, as we are now well past the teen years. The consensus? We are toast. Literally. Left to wait for the sun skin damage to start revealing itself in premature wrinkles and worse yet, skin cancer.
But wait. According to adjunct assistant professor …read more

Maybe winter won’t be so bad afterall. The minute that I saw that chocolate was involved, the product line had my attention. And then there was the fact that you could use it as a body wash, a bubble bath or a shampoo, sounded almost too good to be true. And if that doesn’t do it for you how about this… imagine the scent of melted dark chocolate, rich hazelnut liqueur and freshly whipped cream. And oh yes, you can top off the experience with a body lotion or a shimmery body creme. Now tell me that these products …read more

Just received this from my sister and I have to say that it works for me!
COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, MEN.
SOME THINGS ARE JUST
BETTER RICH

Yeah, I know. There is a lot of shortening and sugar in these little goodies, but for a treat once in a while, I can’t resist. Every once in a while, you simply have to pamper yourself!
1 cup margarine
1 cup brown sugar (don’t pack it)
1/3 cup of white sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 cup of flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped walnuts
generous handful of chocolate and caramel flavored chips
1. Oven: 375 F
2. Spray or butter 13×9 inch pan
3. combine butter, sugars and eggs and beat until fluffy.
4. Spoon out and spread in above pan.
5. Sprinkle top with …read more

“This rare delicacy is available at peak of the season, starting the last week of August through the first three weeks of September (8/28/06-9/21/06). Juicy, fresh-picked blackberries from the Pacific Northwest are hand-picked daily and then hand-dipped in our creamy fondant, bathed in rich Bissinger’s chocolate and shipped with our new Summer Standard Service in insulated packages for guaranteed freshness.”
A double whammy… We know that chocolate is good for us and we know the same is true for blackberries. Put them together and you get something pretty decadent!
You can order them from Bissinger’s Gourmet Chocolate… if there are any left …read more

Just in case you have been wondering how to update your summer makeup to one perfect for the fall months to come, I tripped over this while looking for shoes. Just never know what you are going to find, but I’m glad I went looking. I like what Bobbi Brown has come up with.
She has new “chocolate” colors picked out for the eyes, cheeks and lips.
“Chocolate is the new beauty classic. Warm rich tones makes you look polished without looking overdone.” Bobbi Brown
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You know me and packaging… especially when it comes to fragrances. The bottle has to look just as good as the fragrance smells. Well, meet “classically trained painter Alexis Karl, Scent by Alexis is an exquisite line of hand-blended fragrances, works of art in both their composition and their presentation. Each is carefully created with all-natural oils and all the precision of the time-honored art of perfume (Alexis counts the elixirs and potions of ancient Greece, Egypt and China among her inspirations). Her scents are like nothing else on the market – warm, organic, complex, and entirely unique.”
And apparently the …read more

“A new US study hints that eating milk chocolate may boost brain function.
“Chocolate contains many substances that act as stimulants, such as theobromine, phenethylamine, and caffeine,” Dr Bryan Raudenbush, from Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia, said in comments to Reuters Health. ”

And all this time, I simply thought that it made us feel good! And I just finished whipping up a batch of bran muffins because I thought that they would he a healthy dessert. Now I’m wondering if I should have made a batch of fudgy brownies??