Last week's question: Actress-turned lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow has opened a Goop Lab store in Los Angeles, filled with such products as "sex dust," healing stones, and "psychic vampire repellant." Please come up with the name of another useful new product of this type that Paltrow could sell.
Click here for the results of last week's contest: Sewer film
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THE WINNER: "TranscenDental Floss"
Carol J. Hill, Elephant Butte, N.M.
SECOND PLACE: "Snake Oil of Olay"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
THIRD PLACE: "Conscious Uncufflinks"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Fla.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Air of Entitlement"
Mandy Smith, Cincinnati
"Enlightening Rods"
Ginny Brinkley, Hawthorne, Fla.
"Common Scents"
Jason Kuller, Bethesda, Md.
"Third Eye Drops"
Beatrix Walter, Whitefish Bay, Wis.
"Magical Thinking Cup"
Joanna Phillips, Coraopolis, Pa.
"Ex-exfoliant"
Ivan Kershner, Salem, S.C.
"Instant karma"
Sue Petersen, Portland, Ore.
"Self-Importance Serum"
Natalie Mann, Los Angeles
"Shakespeare in Love Potion"
Steve Charnick, Ocean Township, N.J.
"Paltrow's Placebo Panacea"
Donna Astor-Lazarus, Princeton, N.J.
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