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Product Spotlight
Cranberry-Yuzu Sugar Scrub

The very first sugar scrub we ever debuted way back in 2003, and still Bella Luccè’s very best seller to this day. A creamy blend of nourishing oils and rich shea butter, studded with real cane sugar and ruby red cranberry seeds to slough dead skin and restore your glow. It’s spring cleaning time for your skin too, you know? Find it here…at a very special price, for a very limited time.

Latest Obsession
Chocolate Covered Strawberries

When I think spring, I think of strawberries. And when I think of strawberries, I think of the big-as-my-fist models, dipped in milk chocolate and drizzled with white chocolate, sprinkled with nuts, dashed with coconut and studded with chocolate chips. Exhibit A: Shari’s Berries. They’re my never-fail, go-to gift and they always draw raves. Birthdays, thank you’s, anniversaries, apologies…there’s never a bad time to send a box, Hell, just send a box to yourself. :)

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Two weeks and $10,000 to kill. Where to?

  • Thailand & Vietnam
  • Iceland & Scandinavia
  • Conqering South Africa
  • Peru & Brazil

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Ingredient of the Month
African Shea Butter

Revered for centuries by the women of Africa, shea butter is a renowned skin soother. Obtained from the karite nuts of a tree native to the West African tropics, the supple butter’s high concentration of fatty acids gives it the ability to deeply moisturize and retain the elasticity of the skin, while also protecting against the damaging effects of the sun. Bella Luccè is proud to use organic shea butter imported from the Ghana in our product collection.

Find it in: Vanilla Coconut Whipped Shea, Pumpkin Glow, Norwegian Oceanic Salt Rub

Food For Thought

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

~ Ralph W. Sockman

Home Spa Ritual
Cooling Cucumber Mask

The perfect remedy on a warm spring day, this softening mask utilizes our favorite skin treats from your pantry!

1/2 cucumber
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
1/2 tablespoon yogurt

Toss peeled and deseeded cucumber into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Add honey, cream and yogurt and blend for 45 more seconds. To use: massage mask onto freshly cleansed skin. Grab a good book and relax for 10-15 minutes. Splash face with cool water to remove. Store any remaining mask in a covered container in the refrigerator and use within 4 days.

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Rain, rain…go away!

January 21, 2010

Being a buddhist, I have a fabulous spiritual teacher known as a Gesha-la. He’s a tiny Tibetan man with an endearing spirit and more wisdom in his pinky than I have in my entire body. He also happen to make the most amazing chai tea in the history of the free world and- truth be told- that tea is half the reason I attend his talks. Being the lovely person that he is, he has shared the recipe and I love it make it at home on when the city is under siege of a dreary, rainy day. Today is such a day…

Fair warning: it’s not fast, though it easy. But I promise you the results are worth the effort.

Geshe Topgyal’s Chai Tea

6 pieces of clove
5-7 cardamom seeds
2-3 quarter-sized pieces of cinnamon stick
5 slices of fresh ginger root
4 teaspoons of sugar
2 tablespoon of Red Label or Taj Mahal black tea
Organic whole milk (as desired)

Boil the water with all the ingredients in it (save for the tea and milk) for 5-8 minutes. Add the tea and let it boil for two additional minutes. Then add the milk (as much as you wish) and again let it boil for two minutes. Makes 4 cups.

Excerpted from Geshe Topgyal’s book “Holistic Health: A Tibetan Monk’s View”


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