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Need a Valentine’s Gift for your Spouse, or Family Member or maybe a Galentine’s Gift for your Bestie?

JAVA Skin Care has awesome items for you to consider – at 30% off sitewide now until February 10th, no code needed.

Since we are still spending so much time at home and working so hard to stay Covid-Free, consider these skin care products that can create awesome At-Home-Spa Experiences.

First on the list – Sexy Serum, our stimulating and sensual caffeine-infused massage oil. This super-moisturizing oil can be used all over your body – even the sexy bits. Consider back massages, relaxing foot massages or just set your imagination free – it’s up to you! Our Sexy Serum bottle comes in a lovely pink satin pouch.

Next, we have our gorgeous “Serum – The Collection” combining our three most luxurious products: Eye Serum, Face Serum and Body Serum. We put them together in a onyx-color gift box with a unicorn-pink ribbon. All I can say is “So Lush.” And… at 30% off, such a great deal.

Consider including a Hand & Body Wash to your Serum Collection gift and you have the makings of a great Spa Night. Our Hand & Body Wash makes for a super-foamy bubble bath – but without the harsh ingredients that have been know to cause irritation after a bubbly soak. Then, after luxuriating in the tub, Serum up your whole body, from face to toes. You will feel cleansed, relaxed and moisturized. Ahhhhh…. Can you feel it?

Finally, let me tell you about our Valentine’s Day Gift Set, the combination of an awesome Lip Care Duo along with a vial of Rose Petals and Chocolate Hearts. What more could you want? This collection also comes in a gift box with, what else, a lovely pink bow – super cute.

Revered since ancient times, Roses are known for more than just their beauty. The petals have soothing & cleansing properties for the skin. Consider a Facial Steam for your Spa Night. Here is a recipe to get you started:

Bring a pot of water close to a boil on your stove top
Add the vial of Rose Petals to a heat-proof bowl
Pour the hot water over the petals
Cover the bowl with a towel for 5-10 minutes to allow the petals to steep
Place the towel over your head and lean your face over the bowl, about 12 inches away, to absorb steam and vapors
Keep breathing in vapors for 15 minutes
Gently pat dry
Finish with a moisturizer – we suggest JAVA Face Serum

Of course, all of our JAVA Skin Care products make great gifts – don’t forget something for yourself!

Oh, and we love to hear from you, so please consider leaving a review on our website or check us out on Facebook and Instagram – @javaskincare

Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️

xoxo, Your JAVA Team

The following story is taken from ecoRI News

Distilleries Make Hand Sanitizer to Fight COVID-19D

April 01, 2020

By GRACE KELLY/ecoRI News staff

Providence-based Industrious Spirit Company is making and giving away for free hand sanitizer. (ISCO)

People talk about making lemonade out of lemons in the dourest of times. But for distilleries in Rhode Island — and across the country — the analogy of making lemonade out of lemons means making hand sanitizer out of ethanol.

“We hadn’t really even fully opened yet, we had been in the friends and family soft-opening phase,” said Manya Rubinstein, CEO of the Industrious Spirit Company (ISCO) on Sims Street in Providence. “We were set to open at the end of April, but we postponed that, and like everyone else, we were trying to figure out what we could do to help in the meantime.”

Then, they realized that the answer was sitting in their still.

“We’re the first distillery in Providence since prohibition, and we’re making everything from scratch on site, so we’re able to produce high-proof ethanol,” Rubinstein said.

High-proof ethanol is a key ingredient in hand sanitizer, which has been hard to get your hands on during the coronavirus pandemic. So, in addition to making their liquor, ISCO is also making hand sanitizer.

“What we’ve been doing is using a byproduct of our process; the first alcohol that comes off the still isn’t good for drinking but is a really good cleanser and good for making hand sanitizer,” Rubinstein said. “As soon as all this started happening it became clear that there was a real need.”

She noted that in the future, ISCO will partner with East Providence specialty chemical producers Reade Advanced Materials to produce the next round of sanitizer.

“We’re talking to local agencies to see if we can scale up our production, not necessarily just using a byproduct, and produce more sanitizer because the need is so great.”

The public can head over to ISCO, 1 Sims St., and drive up to its #WishWeCouldWindow between 1 and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday to pick up a free bottle of hand sanitizer to cleanse hands — and perhaps buy a bottle of vodka to cleanse minds (the business asks that you prepay via its website in advance).

“It’s absolutely not required to purchase vodka; we’re very happy to just give sanitizer to people, but some people have bought vodka and they’ve been saying its cleansing for their insides,” Rubinstein said with a laugh.

Sons of Liberty, a South Kingstown distillery that makes bourbon, whiskey, and hard lemonade, among other alcoholic beverages, also answered the call for hand sanitizer.

“It’s been a whirlwind, so I don’t remember the exact ‘Aha!’ moment,” said Bryan Ricard, the company’s marketing director. “But I just remember thinking, ‘Hey, why don’t we make hand sanitizer?’ The basic formula set forth by the World Health Organization, something like 84 percent of the volume is ethanol, so it’s like OK we have the number-one ingredient, it just makes sense.”

The distillery teamed up with Java Skin Care to offer bottled hand sanitizer to the public in a drive-thru operation at the Peace Dale Elementary School in Wakefield on March 23. The partners hope to host another such sale in the near future.

In the meantime, they have created an online form that local businesses can use to order gallon jugs of hand sanitizer.

John Hopkins Medicine has noted that experts agree that the best method for cleaning hands is washing for at least 20 seconds with soap and water.