Sensuality...allure...

Yes, I’m a Passion Parties consultant. And it’s probably the most fun I have all month, giving parties and exploring sensuality with my “sisters I have never met”!!

Passion Parties’ mission is for women to help women express their sensual side, and to support women owning their own businesses. And that’s what fEmpowerment is also all about! Because as you know James Bond was just a government employee – the Bond grrls ran their own circuses, airplane companies, and the like – and were always the ones to get him out of a jam!

So let’s talk just a bit about human sensual response. You get home from work, are a little tired and grouchy, or have been trying to put the kids to bed and you just don’t feel in The Mood. Does this sound familiar? One thing that I found fascinating when I started work with Passion Parties is that, on average, it takes a man about 4 minutes to get in The Mood (does this surprise anyone?) but on average, it takes a woman about 22 minutes.

Interestingly, the #1 sense to get men in the mood is also different than the one for Women – for men, it’s Sight, for Women, it’s Touch.

So what Passion Parties has in its RomantaTherapy line and in a number of play products, are products that are built for you to exercise your sense of touch – whether you are touching yourself by gliding lotions or oils on your body slowly, or by touching and playing with your partner. If you allow your partner to see you preparing, you will be heightening his #1 sense too. That’s why books and CDs sold by Passion Parties – for women – don’t include graphic sex pictures or X-rated videos – because on average, these appeal to men and their Visual senses.

So one of the ways to help yourself get in The Mood – because this is YOUR responsibility to yourself (not his responsibility to “get you there”), is to just take a bit of time and to really touch and feel your skin, and luxuriate in a nice bath or shower before your James comes home. That’s what the RomantaTherapy line is all about.

However, the first thing that I noticed when I started researching the products in this line is that none of them has water as its first ingredient – water is a huge skin dehydrator, and should never be the first ingredient in your bath products. But I will bet you if you go to your shower or wherever you keep your lotions and potions and turn around your favorites, water is right up there first – because of course it’s cheap. And so are these products, by analogy. Since you only get “the skin you’re in” – isn’t it time that you decided to pamper the most precious thing you have on this Earth – the wonderful You? Most of the RomantaTherapy products use whole leaf aloe as their first ingredient, which is incredibly pampering to the skin.

Another thing that the products do not contain is SLS – sodium laurel (or laureth) sulfate. This ingredient is perhaps the most harmful found in personal care products; in fact, it is used in testing labs as the standard ingredient to irritate skin! It is systemic, meaning it stays in your system, and has been found to be carcinogenic. This is not the way to Treat A Lady, as the saying goes! It amazes me how many of us just pay no nevermind to these sorts of things – and then wonder why the incidence of cancer is skyrocketing. When our parents (and their parents) were using lotions and bath products, they were generally natural products – now, companies are doing things to make products cheaper (because we all know we “want a deal”) – e.g., putting water in there – or to make products “do what people think they should” (e.g., foam, and put in things like SLS). Time to Take Care Of You – and really use products that are going to give you the pampering you deserve!