Today as I showered it occurred to me that not long ago using four different cleansing products in one shower would have been noteworthy. Now I use shampoo, soap, face cleaner stuff (skin’s been healthier lately as a result), and for the beard I use body shampoo (it rinses out better). Yep, there are many ways to get clean.
What was noteworthy was one of the cleansing products I used. I happened to be bathing in the luxuriously-scented Raspberry Sweet Tea shower gel made by my close personal fictitious friend Harlean Carpenter. I have to say that some of her Bath Desserts are really awesome—the scents are unmistakeable, but not overdone to the point where my easily-irritated nose takes offense (I can’t even walk into a Hallmark store). I don’t know how she made the cinnamon roll flavor bath cake so cinnamon-rolly. The Kiwi Fruit slices rock, and you can get herbal tea bags to steep in your bath.While I’m hardly unbiased, I have to say that these soaps and gels would make fabulous and unique gifts. That’s right: fabulous AND unique. Go check them out!
Ah, perfect. Pat and I have been hunting for the perfect host/hostess gifts for a couple who have been extremely generous in making their home available to us. I had already figured out what to give the husband — a gift certificate for setting up a home-entertainment center: he buys the components, I plug them in and make them play well together.
The wife, on the other hand, I was having trouble figuring out something for. But she does enjoy a luxurious bath, so Bath Desserts are a perfect answer. Hallelujah. And the single-use soaps are perfect for the guest bath at Five O’Clock Somewhere as well — much better than little bars lifted from various motels.
One idea I had: Harlean could put together gift baskets at various price levels that would give a suitable selection of matched products.