Buty­ros­per­mum parkii, to be exact. What’s that? You don’t know what it is? Well, if you can’t pro­nounce it must be some­thing awful right? An exper­i­ment by a demented chemist gone wrong!

Nope. It’s shea butter.

Why do words we can’t pro­nounce get such a bad rap? There are lots of words I CAN pro­nounce that are the names of things that are harm­ful. Yet, in the cos­met­ics world, the mar­ket­ing spin a lot of brands use is that their prod­ucts are made from sim­ple, easy to pro­nounce words. That’s nice.

Guess what, once INCI gets through with those same ingre­di­ents you won’t even rec­og­nize half of them.

INCI is the Inter­na­tional Nomen­cla­ture of Cos­metic Ingre­di­ents. In other words, spe­cific names that must be used on labels to iden­tify cos­metic ingre­di­ents — but SNTMBUOLTICI is really too long of an acronym.

I’m finally get­ting around to post all the show­room pictures…enjoy!

Take a sneak peek at La Dolce Diva in the J. Bran­des Show­room in Dal­las. Come see us at the Jan­u­ary show!

It’s that time of year.…yep, a lit­tle exfoliation.

Accord­ing to Dr. Patri­cia Wexler, exfo­li­at­ing is one of the most impor­tant things we can do for the health of our skin.

Actu­ally, there is no wrong time to give our body a lit­tle “buff!” As it turns out, plain old sugar is one of the best exfo­lia­tors around. And there’s noth­ing a Sweet Diva likes bet­ter than a lit­tle some­thing sweet!

So we’d like to intro­duce you to La Dolce Diva’s newly launched sugar scrub! There are plenty of things to love about it aside from the sug­ary goodness..like it’s oil-free…no more mess in the shower or tub.

Our sugar scrub has a whipped creamy feel, foams softly and rinses away…leaving behind vel­vety smooth skin.

Gen­tle enough to use every day, you’ll soon fall in love with the pam­per­ing rit­ual of treat­ing your skin to a lit­tle sugar! Avail­able in all four of our fab­u­lous fragrances.

Sugar is bet­ter to smooth on your hips than through your lips.…but your lips shouldn’t be denied the spa treatment!

With our new Amore Lip Spa, you can give your lips an Ital­ian kiss! Yummy brown sugar does the exfo­li­at­ing and our Shea but­ter Lip Amore mois­tur­izes and soft­ens your smoocher!

Pack­aged in an adorably tiny take out box, it’s sim­ply irresistible!

Pucker up!

Lip Spa $16

If you’ve every mut­tered these words beneath a frus­trated sigh dur­ing a long bout of a fruit­less search for the per­fect gift…then you know. You knew it already. No. It isn’t the thought that counts.

But you ignore that lit­tle voice and move onto the fourth stage of gift giv­ing. The first; real­iza­tion that you actu­ally have to buy a gift. The sec­ond; real­iza­tion that you have no clever idea of what to give the per­son. The third; The fruit­less search.

So the fourth must be the sud­den dis­cov­ery of The Holy Grail of per­fect gifts? Sadly, no. The fourth; pick­ing up the near­est accept­able item within the com­mon bounds of good taste and price point and pro­ceed­ing to the register.

Just when you think the pres­sure is off…the fifth stage sets in.…dread. Dread of actu­ally being there when the per­son opens the gift and real­izes that A) You really don’t know them at all. B) You haven’t been lis­ten­ing to every lit­tle hint they’ve been drop­ping. Or C) You have no clue of what a great gift is whether you know them or not.

Hey, we’ve ALL been there. Whether it’s your best friend, your sis­ter, office mate or ran­dom host­ess giv­ing event. Gif­tanx­i­ety is one of the many things we women share and can bond over.

What are things that most peo­ple of the female per­sua­sion like? Things that are pretty. Things that smell good. Things that are pam­per­ing. Things that they don’t need but can’t sur­vive with­out. Sound familiar?

That’s where La Dolce Diva comes in. We are the DIVAS of the per­fect gift for any occa­sion. Uniquely chic pack­ag­ing, fab­u­lous fra­grances and per­fectly pampering..we surely have some­thing within your budget.

Check out our new packaging..let us know what you think!

We’ve been hard at work enhanc­ing our pack­ag­ing and prod­uct and can’t wait to share it with you!

Let us know what you think..and watch for more!