By: Erin Brady
Valentine’s Day is around the corner and whether or not you have a sweetie to spend it with, every girl can attest to wanting soft, glowing, sweet-smelling skin.  Begin your quest for enviable skin in the shower, with Softsoap’s new Body Butter Strawberry Smoother.  This skin-pampering body wash contains juicy strawberry and jojoba butter extracts to help skin retain moisture, along with gentle exfoliators for smooth, sexy skin just in time for February 14^th, or really anytime you are going out on the town.  The unique invigorating fragrance and skin-enhancing ingredients are inspired by high-end beauty products and deliver advanced beauty care at an affordable price.  Available at mass retail and grocery stores nationwide beginning in February 2011.  If strawberry isn’t your thing, here’s some of our other body buffing favs:

• The Body Scrub by Sara Happ in Vanilla Bean: This cult favorite effectively removes the roughest of dead skin with natural sugar crystals.  Enriched with kukui nut, macadamia and almond oils, that leave zero residue behind, this wholesome body scrub nourishes and nurtures parched winter skin.  This scrub just melts into your skin, creating a luxuriously rich experience you can feel, then rinses away without leaving goop in your shower or on you; for such a powerful scrub, that’s pretty impressive.  Available at fine department stores and spas, as well as online at beautyhabit.com

• AVEENO Positively Nourishing Antioxidant Body Wash: These luxurious body washes are fortified with antioxidants to repair cellular damage and destroy free radicals.  Formulated with ACTIVE NATURALS^® Oat, they are clinically proven to provide 24-hour hydration to soothe itchy, dry skin.  New scents like blackberry & vanilla and white peach & ginger are sure to leave you feeling and smelling as if you just left the spa, without having to leave the comfort of your own home.  Available at national food, drug and mass merchandisers starting in February.