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Green Tea and Sympathy

By Didi Gluck

Beauty News

Photo Credit: Svend Lindbaek

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Humanitarian Manuela Testolini Nelson, who once married a Prince (the royal rocker of Purple Rain fame) has created Altru, a line of home and bath scents as exotic as she is (Nelson is half-Egyptian, half-Italian). White clover and green teas come in genie-bottle packaging, and more than half of the proceeds go to support her In a Perfect World Foundation, which seeks to foster creativity and leadership in children. Nelson and Prince recently announced that they're splitting — but Manuela, we would buy 4 U anyway.


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