Cyber Monday!

If you're checking in on cyber Monday, be sure to click on to the site (www.lanikaibathandbody.com)and take advantage of the 10% off sale.

We have lots of wonderful gifts for the Holidays!

Love Back to You

Second from left in this picture from Iraq is Brook and Dave's son Adam. His twin
brother Doug is also in the Navy but stationed at home for now.

Please keep Adam and his fellow soldiers in your prayers. Mahalo from all of Adam's friends and family at Lanikai Bath and Body!

Kukui is Hawaii's Healing Oil

Simply Kukui!
From our friends at the Soap Box

Simply Kukui soaps are naturally good for your skin because it contains beneficial oils your skin will love! In addition to Kukui Nut Oil, these soaps also contain Macadamia Nut Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Shea Butter, and Coconut Oil.Simply Kukui soaps gently cleanse your skin without stripping its natural oils and without leaving a film on your body. Your skin will feel soft and supple. These soaps are great for SENSITIVE SKIN!

Kukui Nut Oil may relieve symptoms of psoriasis, eczema, dry & cracked skin, sunburn.

You can order Simply Kukui at our online shop or at our Kailua Store at 600 Kailua Road.

Hawaiian Tap for the Holidays

Bottled water be gone!

It’s no secret that we have the best tap water in the world – so why buy something else in a plastic bottle?

Bottle your own in the Hawaiian Tap bottle.

Help preserve the environment here in Hawaii, and at home (wherever that is) by using the one liter or 22 ounce version of Hawaiian Tap. Watertight. Reusable. Cool as cool can be! Glistening like ornaments, they make a great holiday gift! (And not heavy to ship.)

Belated Happy Thanksgiving

Belated Happy Thanksgiving from Lanikai Bath and Body! We are so thankful for all of our customers, friends and family.

This year, the day of Thanksgiving in Hawaii was a beautiful one -- a perfect Hawaii day and night.

Grandchildren and nieces and nephews fill our lives now, and this Thanksgiving we are thankful for parents, who gave us life, and children, who give us reason to live.

Happy Thanksgiving and Blessings of Peace for all of humankind.

Mahalo! Enter to win a $250 Holiday Collection!

Relax and Refresh this Holiday Season with Lanikai Bath and Body. Hawaii's own collection of all fresh, natural and Hawaiian bath and body products.

Between now and December 15th enter to win a $250 Lanikai Bath and Body Gift Set.

Winner will receive a Spa Collection in any scent*, an Aquis microfiber bath towel, Me Bath essential Oils Bath Bombs (An Oprah Favorite), a collection of 6 Maiden Hawaii handmade soaps, a My Tote waterproof tote bag (another Oprah Favorite!) and one of our oh so popular Hawaiian Tap water bottles.

And of course our many mahalos for supporting Hawaii's own Lanikai Bath and Body.

*Spa Collection includes: Moisturizing Lotion. Refreshing Body Wash. Light and Creamy Body Butter. Exfoliating Scrub. Hawaiian Minerals Bath Salt. Lip Balm. Shampoo. Conditioner. Face and Body Mist. Massage and Bath Oil.

To enter~

Enter Online:
Email: mahalo@lanikaibathandbody.com Subject Line: Refresh and Relax!
Include: Name and phone number (so we can contact you should you win!).

Enter at our Kailua store too!
Beginning Friday, Nov 29 - visit our store at 600 Kailua Road and enter to win. One entry a day please!

It Takes A Village

To catch a dog- (the saga of Brook and Dave's lab-heeler mix Oreo and her escape on a rainy day).
SATURDAY
6 am- 4 pm
STORMING all day in Hawaii. We are in the house ALL MORNING. ALL AFTERNOON.
Poor Oreo I think. Dave is in town. I should take her out.
4pm
Saturday late afternoon. Weather starts clearing up. Still raining a little and water everywhere.
4:15
I feel sorry for Oreo- think “Okay- I’ll take her to the park to walk- I’ll clean her up afterwards.”
4:20-5 pm
Walk her around the park, kind of muddy but she’s clean and having a good time.
5:05
The leash comes off somehow.
5:06
Oreo is free.
5:05-5:30
I call and chase to no avail. She races around the park, digs holes in the mud in the baseball park. I chase. Bait her with slippers, shoes, keys, my car door open. She runs, races. I get close. Chasing a greased pig. Don’t have my phone but grateful she is staying in the park and figure she will get tired. I continue to try to trap her.
5:35
Oreo runs into the parking lot of Aikahi school. I continue to cajole knowing that the street is right there.
5:45
Lady walking her old poodle comes to help. Oreo approaches her dog but runs when I get close.
5:46
Oreo runs into the street.
5:47
Teenage boy who has been mudsliding in Aikahi park comes to help me alert cars and try to keep Oreo from going into the intersection. He and the poodle lady help me keep Oreo from running into traffic.
5:50
Oreo runs into Safeway parking lot. We continue to try to chase her down. Prevent her from going onto main highway.
5:55
Rest of teenagers from mudsliding event come across the street to join us. Circle Oreo. She continues to evade all of us.
5:58
Wackenhut guard at Safeway starts doing the jig to get Oreo’s attention and moonwalking across the parking lot to KEEP Oreo’s attention so we can come up from behind.
6 pm
Oreo runs.
6:05
Oreo getting tired. Mudsliders continue to circle. Wackenhut guard sits and watches, blocks entry to parking lot.
Oreo lays down to rest- but just for a second til mudsliding girl tries to grab her. Everyone continues to circle and get her into corner.
6:07
Dave and Doug arrive after searching for me at Aikahi Park. Oreo does not listen to Dave either!
6:10
Group continues to circle Oreo. Oreo is grabbed by SWEET TEENAGE GIRL!!!!! YAY!!!!
Everyone cheers including Wackenhut guard and poodle lady and ME.
6:15
We cross the street to get back to park (and kids to mudsliding) but not before taking a picture of Oreo and her peeps. See below. And yes, Oreo is going to obedience school. And yes again- thank goodness for good hearts in good people.

Market Blues?

Everybody has the market blues these days. And what are we doing?

Recommending that you spend some money at Lanikai Bath and Body, and treat yourself to a spa day at home. We'll help you put together a "spa package" and give you a 20%
discount. Just let our "soap fairies" know you have the market blues, and they'll help you find just the right "stuff" to help you relax.

Favorites

We had two very unusual orders this month where two professionals with large offices ordered 2.2 ounces for everyone in their offices ... a total of more than 350 2.2 ounce products ... luckily for us, our perfect elves in Kula are madly making Plumeria and Tahitian Gardenia so that we can fill our holiday orders. And, 2.2 oz Tahitian Gardenia and Plumeria top our list of best sellers.

2.2 ounce lotions and washes are perfect stocking stuffers, and if you like Mango Coconut, we have 2.2 x 4 travel packs: with shampoo, conditioner, wash and lotion.
We have the lotion and wash combos in Tahitian Gardenia, Plumeria, Orchid Vanilla, and Pikake. We also have a 2.2 ounce lotion in Pineapple Coconut.

We hope you'll shop with Lanikai this holiday season!

From Farmers Market to Hekili Street

Soon to open on Hekili Street, next to Cisco's and in the spot occupied nearly forever by Princess Chop Suey, is Crepes No Ka Oi.

To date, they have been very successful at farmer's markets and various events around the island of O'ahu, and they are finally (especially for those of us who are crepes fans) opening a restaurant in Kailua.

Kailua, which has always been too cool to be true, adds another great place to eat, and remains the coolest Hawaiian town there is. Lanikai Bath and Body welcomes
Crepes No Ka Oi to the wonderful mix that is Kailua town!

Our Ingredients Speak for Themselves

Kukui Oil is one of the most important ingredients in our made-by-hand-in-Maui natural product lines. The Hawaiians discovered long ago that the oil from the kukui nut made skin soft and supple, and could also be lit to light the way on a dark night.

The foliage of the Kukui Tree is silver-grey, and looks somewhat powdery. It is the lightest "green" of the multitudes of green in Hawaii, and so the tree is easily spotted. Before the nuts, small white colored flowers bloom.

Most everyone associates Kukui with lei that are made with ribbons and nuts polished to a dark brown shine. But its softening effects are what is important to us at Lanikai Bath and Body, and it helps to make our lotions smooth and silky.

In 1959 the Kukui nut tree became the official state tree of Hawaii. It's classified name is aleurites moluccana. Since scientists have found traces of Kukui pollen in ancient geological deposits, it is assumed by many that the Kukui nut tree is native to Hawaii.

Hawaii Boy Is President-Elect!

The whole world knows this by now, but we just had to say it! Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii, went to Noelani Elementary School in Manoa, and to Punahou School in Makiki. And if you've read this blog you know I "taught" him in 5th grade.

The world knows Barack as an African American but here in Hawaii we know he is hapa haole, or half white. Practically everyone here has mixed race members in their family, and no one spends too much time thinking about it.

We do acknowledge that this is a historic moment for African Americans and people of color everywhere. We are so proud of President Elect Obama!

The picture here shows hula dancers from Obama City Japan (Obama means "little beach"
in Japanese). According to reports from Japan "Yes We Can Obama!" was shouted by Japanese men and women in hula-dance costumes on national television. They’re members of possibly the most ardent of Barack Obama supporters in Japan, a small fishing town in western Japan with a population of 32,000 which shares the same name as the new president-elect.

After Obama’s election victory, it seemed like every Japanese television network descended on the town of Obama to capture the jubilation of residents celebrating with their Hawaiian-themed dancing and singing (a tribute to Obama’s birthplace) and hoping that their tie to the ever-popular next president of the United States will boost local business and tourism."