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Excuse us -- but is this your refrigerator, or your bathtub?
You luxuriate in a tub filled with Foaming Strawberry Milk, scrub with Coco Banana Slush, buff with Tapioca, Rice and Almonds, and give yourself a final pat down with Orange Melon Body Butter. We found this cornucopia of non-edible skin and hair care products at Hoboken’s brand new lhea (201-222-1522). Everything, everything, looks good enough to eat. Lhea -- it stands for Live Healthy Ever After -- opened just in time for the holidays on busy Washington Street. The store is owned by the South Korea-based CHB Group (www.chbgroup.com) and is the first the company has opened in this country. The food-based cosmetics are supplied by Fresh Body Market (www.freshbodymarket.com). This is not your grandmother’s bubble bath! The milky bubbling concoction comes in flavors like organic coconut, strawberry, eggnog, and chocolate, and is packaged in half-gallon plastic jugs. The cherry “Skin Yogurt” moisturizer and cleanser are in real yogurt containers. A “Sushi Bar” soap is made of organic rice and fresh avocado. Make a visit to lhea and you’ll come back with loads of talk-about gifts. Or something for your nice relaxing bath: all-you-can’t-eat goodies that leave you squeaky clean and smelling like a fruit slushie? without adding a single calorie!
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