Ron Rice’s recipe for global notoriety and untold riches began with a $4 garbage can and broken broom handle for stirring. The concoction he settled on, over 50 years ago, would become Hawaiian Tropic ...

Ron Rice, an Asheville native who grew up dirt poor but went on to rub elbows with the rich and famous after creating Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion, has died. He was 81. A promotional wizard with a ...

The Ormond Beach oceanfront mansion of the late Hawaiian Tropic founder Ron Rice will become a vacation home for an out-of-state couple and their family, The Daytona Beach News-Journal has learned.

The home of “The Suntan King” is for sale in Florida, and it just got a bit cheaper. Hawaiian Tropic sun tan lotion founder Ron Rice passed away at the age of 81 in May 2022, and now his massive ...

A poor, pale mountain boy who became smitten with the beach, he mixed some ingredients in a garbage can and found his place in the sun. By Sam Roberts Ron Rice, a high school chemistry teacher who had ...

ORMOND BEACH — The lavish oceanfront mansion of the late Hawaiian Tropic founder Ron Rice was once featured on the '80s television show "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous." It can now be yours for just ...