I mentioned this on the "affordable" stretch marks roundup, but I'll repeat: I know that beauty people are divided in their opinion of stretch mark oils. Or just the use of body oils in general to prevent stretch marks. From my own personal viewpoint, I have no...
My designated body parts for testing out dry skin creams are my shins. Without proper care, they go scaly and shiny and weird, and if I wear tights or jeans then the problem escalates and I might even get some itchiness. The latest thick, balm-like body creams for dry...
I adore the smell of both Neroli and Orange Blossom - they transport me to a calm, happy place. Ages ago I wrote about Charlotte Stockdale's collection for Jo Malone, in which she brought to life some of the scents from her travels, scents that were special to her,...
Well this was twenty-four quid well spent; the Emoji Micro Pedi is the most fun I've had with my feet in years. (There's some kind of rude joke in there somewhere but I haven't the energy to eke it out.) A sort of miniature sander that you run over dry foot skin, it...
When I say "budget" I suppose I mean "more affordable than the really swanky ones". Because you can get all sorts of different body oils aimed at stretch mark prevention - many of them quite plain, verging on being overpriced carrier oils, some of them blended with...
I will readily admit that I've gone a bit gah-gah for the idea of summer; I can't wait to sit in my garden (if I ever get back to my house to sit in my garden!) and feel the warm sun on me as I quietly work my way through the pile of novels I have waiting. (Obviously...
I've done some preliminary research into cooling foot creams and gels before - you may remember last summer, when I praised the benefits of Weleda's Foot Balm - but I had never really seen the point of them. Until now. Late pregnancy, one and a half weeks to go until...
I can only really say one thing about the Clarins Radiance-Plus Golden Glow Booster and that is get it, get it, get it. As a lover of gradual tanners and a hater of full-on fake tan, these drops, which can be added to any body lotion, serum or oil, are just the most...
I've been testing out quite a few pregnancy body oils recently and I thought I'd start reporting back on a few of them. Now I know that opinion is divided on stretch mark oils, but I do feel that prevention is better than cure when it comes to these things, and...
I seem to be having a bit of a "rose revival" at the moment. I went off rose for a while, possibly because I completely overdid it, smothering myself in rose stuff from head to foot, but now I'm back on it with a vengeance. In fact, when I think about my total...
I'm rarely seduced by the idea of a body scrub. It's all a lot of hassle, isn't it? If you're relaxing in the bath then why would you want your finale to be a weird, standing-up scrub-applying dance routine? With your body in the cold and your feet still in the...
Oooh, we all need a bit of zing and zest to get us through January, don't we? Crap weather, dark, chilly mornings and a seemingly endless number of weeks until we get to anything exciting, calendar-wise. (What is the next good event after Christmas? The clocks going...