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POLL: Your Favorite Health & Beauty Business

Vote now in Bedford Patch's Readers' Choice tournament.

Well, all the votes are in and a select 12 local businesses have advanced to round two of the Bedford Patch Small Business Tournament.

, which garnered more than 50 percent in the "Best of the Rest Poll," moved on to the top 12 with other the other Readers' Choice winners:

We've broken the 12 winners into four separate polls, three businesses each, and we'll narrow the list to the fantastic four from there.

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We've also decided to speed things up a bit, so now we'll have two 48-hour polls a week, one beginning Monday at 8 a.m., and concluding at the same time Wednesday, and another beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday and running through Saturday morning. We'll post the results within hours of the polls concluding.

Kicking things off the second round are our three first-round winners that have a distinct connection: health and beauty. That means takes on and

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Similarly, beginning Thursday, things get tasty as looks to fend off and

Next Monday's poll features faces and

And , , and square off next Thursday.

So which is your favorite?

The top vote-getter in this round moves on to the next round. Comments weighed in the event of a tie. Feel free to leave a comment below celebrating your favorite shop and click on the link for each business and rate it, though that's an added bonus, not a requirement for this tournament.

You have until 8 a.m. Wednesday to vote.

Once you've voted, visit the daily for updated results throughout the tournament. Just remember, only one vote per person, per day. We want this to be a fun and fair way to embrace small-town commerce at its finest.

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