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Recipe cards help you make the most of all the aromatherapy ingredients. View larger.

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What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: A variety of fun bath and beauty products to make The Bad: Fountain can get messy In a Nutshell: A great way to encourage creativity At a Glance Ages: 8 and older Requires: 2 AA batteries

Create a Personalized Scent
The perfect accessory for sleep overs and rainy weekends, this Spa Factory set requires minimal set up. Simply use a Philips head screwdriver to insert two AA batteries (not included) in the fountain base and start mixing the ingredients. Fill the translucent flower and petals with water to see the fountain in action. Later on, its continuous motion will make sure perfumes are mixed well.

Kids can follow the recipes on colorful cardboard cards to make fun concoctions, including herbal bouquet perfume, berry chocolate chip bath fizzies, or carnival candy lip gloss. There's hints for mixing up a calming clay facial mask, and if the included recipes aren't adventurous enough for your children, they can invent their own.

Each kit comes with two fragrance oil packets and two flavor oil packets, so little girls may be mixing popular scents like lavender and jasmine with the fresh aroma of pink grapefruit. An adult may want to help out, especially at first, so the strongly scented oils don't overpower creations or end up in sensitive eyes.

Bond with Friends and Develop Unique Gifts
Included along with all the supplies for making unique bath and beauty products are containers to store them in. A pair of perfume gift bottles, and tubs for lip gloss or bath fizzies make this set perfect for sharing with friends and neighbors or packaging up your favorite scented creation to give as a gift. You'll be inspired by the way this set encourages cooperative play rather than competition.

While there are ingredients for plenty of different creations, there isn't necessarily enough of some of the ingredients, like the lip gloss base, to make starting over easy when too much scent has been added. Girls should use the included pipette and add oils a single drop at a time to avoid shortages, and it's important for them to think through what they really want to make before they start creating.

Adding new elements is likely to make mixing in the fountain even more fun, and girls will become increasingly adventurous as they make one cool mixture after another, so the specific scents that come with each set don't need to become a limiting factor. The fountain's pieces are all made of durable plastic, so it should enjoy a lengthy life as long as budding beauty product designers take some care with it and don't loose any of its parts.

What's in the Box
Fountain, 4 essential oil bottles, 2 fragrance oil packets, 2 flavor oil packets, perfume base, lip gloss base, fizz activator packet, citrus blend packet, oat blend packet, 4 recipe cards, 2 perfume bottles, 2 lip gloss jars, 2 bath body jars, spoon whisk, pipette, mini funnel, and sticker labels.

Excerpt:

She crawled carefully through dancing feet, under clanking swords, and a rain of blood. She heard whisking and whipping, thumps and thuds, grunts and groans, curses, prayers, and the blasting beat of a thousand hearts, the world yet spinning round and round.

She prayed the warriors would be too engaged in battle to bother with her. Her gown kept catching under her knees, pulling the neck down around her shoulders. Metal feet slammed down around her. Something wet poured over her neck and dripped down her skin curving around her throat. It smelled like blood. However, everything reeked of blood. She kept moving, forbidding tears, wishing she'd drank a second glass of wine, for the elixir seemed to distance her somewhat from the horrors she normally felt.

Ahead, on the outskirts of the battle, she glimpsed a lone oak tree ahead of her, looming there, a live thing, like a mother bidding her to come and fall upon her breast.

Thinking only of the tree, the tree, the beautiful tree, she found herself more quickly there. She dropped her shoulder against the fragrant bark, and curled into a tight ball, very still, afraid to move, lest a knife come flying at her, the way Kayenté had once told her it could.

Her eyes were closed, but the image of swords and bludgeoned bodies flashed erratically in her mind. This battle was like the one in her nightmare: warriors, swords, arrows, blood; and she curled against a tree in a dirty white gown, trembling. Would The Cold One appear next?

Her arm was snatched. Someone pulled her forward so swiftly, she felt like a shooting star. Her vision blurred, so fast they did run. When they stopped, she fell to her hands and knees in the thick foliage, panting hard with burning lungs. Someone stood next to her. Would she now behold The Cold One? What was, was; and what was to be, was to be. She could not change it, so she sat back on her knees and looked up to see dust covered leather pants, and a sword dripping blood. Raising her eyes further, she saw Kayenté's face. It was Kayenté who towered over her!

Her hand flew to her heart. "You aren't The Cold One."

He squatted, resting the sword over his knees. "I don't know about that."

When young Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) finds an abandoned baby, he is suddenly thrust unto an adventure filled with magic and danger. According to an ancient prophecy, the sacred child is destined to end the reign of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). Now, the only a single swordsman (Val Kilmer) at his side, Willow must overcome the forces of darkness that threaten to destroy anyone who stands in the Queen's way!

The debut novel of a young American writer creates a world of fantasy, where the land is divided into two-- the Northlands and the Southlands.

Ellin, a girl from the Southland, is forced to go with her physician father to heal the Northland king, even though Southlanders are despised and feared throughout the cold country. Ellin must find a way to battle both the people from the North and then her own people, the Southlanders, to survive in a icy and hostile land.

A great debut novel of a land in sometimes magical combat.