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Sept. 10, 2007 Bath and body shops
It's been a hard day. Maybe it's winter, and the cold has chapped your lips; maybe it's summer, and the sun has reddened your skin. Either way, you could really use a little aromatherapy right about now. Fear not: Seattle's bath and body shops offer untold wonders, from grape-scented antiwater retention gel and tonic to your basic sweet-smelling shampoo.
Aveda
(University/Montlake)
Whether you're looking to cleanse, exfoliate, moisturize, shave, relieve tension or shield your skin from the sun's damaging rays, Aveda has just the sweet-smelling product for you.
Bath & Body Works
(North Seattle)
The big national chain stocks froufrou indulgences like apple body butter, cherry-scented three-in-one body wash, bubble bath and shampoo and hand cream that smells like cocoa buttercream frosting. You'll also find more functional items, including antibacterial hand gels and moisturizing lotions.
Black Creek Botanicals
(Downtown)
Black Creek's soaps, lotions and bath salts are made on the premises, and nothing has animal fats or petroleum in it -- the ingredients are all plant-based.
The Body Shop
(University/Montlake)
As a walk through any Body Shop location quickly informs your nose, there are lotions and potions in a variety of flavors great enough to make Carmen Miranda sit down and weep. Papaya, mango, satsuma, grapefruit, coconut -- you name it, they've made it into something you can rub into your skin.
Clover House
(Eastlake/Lake Union)
South Lake Union's new urban dwellings pack a lot of style into very little square footage. The same can be said of Clover House, a shop that serves the neighborhood's urbane inhabitants well, offering home furnishings, plants, gifts and plenty of bath and body products.
Dandelion Botanical Co.
(Ballard/Crown Hill)
An organic apothecary selling bulk herbs, tonic teas, beautiful teapots and fabulous Sistercraft soaps in flavors like pink grapefruit and chocolate marmalade.
Duque Salon + Spa + Boutique
(Ballard/Crown Hill)
You can get gussied up from head to toe at this family-run salon/spa/boutique. You'll find hair and nail services, eclectic and trendy clothing and accessories and bath and body products galore in a wide range of price points.
Essenza
(Fremont)
Essenza specializes in top-of-the-line imported fragrances (with designer baby clothes mixed in among upscale scents for the toddler set), daintily arranged as in an old-style European apothecary.
Kiehl's
(University/Montlake)
The New York-based chain carries specialty bath products, body cleansers, scrubs, moisturizers, sunscreen, self-tanning formulas and shaving stuff, among many other items for the care and feeding of a happy body.
L'Occitane
(Downtown)
In dire need of grape-scented antiwater retention gel and bath tonic? You've come to the right place. L'Occitane's idea of soothing fragrances and bath, body and skin-care products is based on the scenic French region of Provence.
Lush (Seattle)
(Downtown)
Lush, world-renowned for its bath, body and skin-care products made from scratch using fresh organic ingredients, arranges its wares as if in an open-air farmers market.
Olivine
(Ballard/Crown Hill)
Inspired by a trip to Paris, this boutique is bestowed with the feel of a French flat: light, airy and filled with "everything a girl could want," including clothing, shoes, handbags, lingerie, jewelry and perfume.
Romanza
(Ballard/Crown Hill)
Romanza mixes the practical (bed and bath items) with the frivolous and whimsical in an atmosphere of playful elegance.
Sephora (Downtown)
(Downtown)
A dazzling boutique of jewel-toned makeup, high-end skin-care lines and delicious fragrances.
The Soap Box
(University/Montlake)
The Soap Box is brimming with lotions, candles, soaps galore and an extensive selection of rubber duckies and bath frogs.
Sweet Beauty
(Ravenna/Roosevelt)
This quirky Ravenna shop offers a line of sumptuous spa and beauty products created around one key ingredient: chocolate.
Sweet Petula
(Madison Park/Madrona)
Sweet Petula is both the name of Cory Smith's Madison Valley store and of her handmade line of aromatic candles, soaps, lotions and sea salts.
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