As I write this review for elizabethW Magnolia Bath Gel, snow is falling again on New York City. I have the late-winter blues, and I’m starting to look forward to my own personal rites of spring. In April and early May, for example, I take pleasure in the days when I can eat my lunch under the magnolia trees in Central Park.
The Magnolia products from elizabethW aptly capture the scent of a real magnolia flower, with its creamy sweetness and its bright, lemony edge. Magnolia is a softly flirtatious floral, and elizabethW accentuates it with light notes of gardenia and mimosa, creating a feminine bouquet that would suit Scarlett O’Hara in one of her more tranquil moods. (And who could ever forget Rhett Butler saying, “You can drop the moonlight and magnolias, Scarlett,” when he saw through her sweet talk?)
elizabethW’s Magnolia is one of the brand’s Signature Collection fragrances…
The New Zealand-based company Trilogy and its line of plant-based skincare products, including Botanical Body Wash, are the creations of sisters Sarah Gibbs and Catherine Wells. Gibbs and Wells define the threefold philosophy of their products as “Simplicity, Vitality and Purity”, and the company’s broader “trilogy” of values is a balance of ethics, aesthetics, and environmentalism. I have already tried and enjoyed Trilogy’s facial exfoliant and eye cream in the past, so I was looking forward to using the new Botanical Body Wash. 
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