Champney launches new spa collection – Distant Shores

 

Distant Shores, the new spa collection from Champneys, is an exotic  fruit cocktail of fragrances including  grapefruit, lemon, orange peel, mango and passion fruit extract. 

It comes in Bubble Heaven, a delicate Shower Mousse, a fine Body Scrub, gorgeously thick Body Butter and a fine mist Dry Oil Spritz.

They also have a travel collection – so you can take your Distant Shores products to your distant shores holiday.

Will be available from www.boots.com   and www.champneys.com soon

Home Spas - Maddi Alexander luxurious ethical body products

Ever wanted to bathe with rose petals floating around you?

Sprinkle a handful of Maddi Alexander’s Bath Soak in a hot bath and watch the dried rose petals and lavender flowers blossom. This bath soak combines hand crumbled cold processed soap with oatmeal, cornflour, sea salt, powdered orange peel and moisturising shea butter. 

It comes in two fragrances but one price £22:

Serene – A blend of geranium and lavender to de-stress and relax.

Frivolous – Uplifting combination of Sicilian lemon, bergamot, sweet orange, ginger and cloves to get you in the party mood.

And of course light a few candles in the same fragrance to give an overall sense of well being and serenity whilst relaxing in the bath. Price £28. These are hand poured using natural vegetable wax combined with natural, organic and fair traded essential oils and cotton wick to give the purest product.

Step out of the bath, pat yourself dry and then  massage your body with either Serene Body Butter or Frivolous Bath & Body Oil.

The Serene Body Butter is blended with pure virgin coconut and avocado oils and enriched with rejuvenating Shea and Muru Muru butter. First warm the butter in your hands before massaging gently over your body. Price £28

The Frivolous Bath & Body Oil is an extravagant blend of oils which derive from the Kalahari melon, sweet almond and the African baobab tree. This can also be used in the bath. price £30

 

Maddi Alexander only use ethically sourced natural ingredients made by fair trade cooperatives in the developing world wherever possible. So these little luxuries are not only good for you, but also good for the environment and the producers that they work with.

Available online: www.maddialexander.com and exclusively from Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, London.

Home Spas - Nougat London's Spoil Me Bath Set

Preparing for a girlie night out?

Nougat London is a fashion label combining classic and feminine styling with a contemporary twist.

But before you step in to one of their gorgeous garments you’ll need to spoil yourself with their Spoil Me gift set. 

This is presented in a ballet box which is reusable for your cosmetics or anything else you’d like to keep in this cute cardboard vanity case.

Inside you’ll find:

Soothing bath pearls in a glass decanter. The pearls soften the water and gently cleanse and fragrance your skin.

After a few minutes relaxing, get the skin ready for a party mood out by using the Exfoliating body wash.  The gentle exfoliating beads contain mallow extract which softens and soothes the skin.

Then add some sparkle with their Sparkling body shimmer which leaves a light glow to the skin.

Fragrances are cherry blossom, Fig & pink cedar, and Tuberose & Jasmine

Price £35 from www.nougatlondon.co.uk

And now you're ready to step in to one of their gorgeous dresses. Loving their 1920's inspired sleeveless flapper dress with lattice embroidery and beads. Worn in image with a stone coloured shrug

Dress:  100% viscose Price £325

Shrug: 70% angora 30% nylon Price £105

Both available from www.nougatlondon.co.uk

 

Home Spas - GelSPA for a relaxing soak in the bath

Love having a long relaxing soak in the bath but hate the wrinkled like a prune after effect?

New on the scene is the GelSPA Luxury bath Soak which turns your bath water into a thick gel-like substance infused with aromatherapy oils. 

Add Step 1 sachet to running water and see the water thicken with tiny gel beads. These beads flow over your body, gently exfoliating the skin and massaging any aching muscles. GelSPA locks the water and retains its temperature for up to three times longer allowing you really relax.It also turns the water in a lovely blue colour.

Having tested the product, the big plus is that your skin doesn’t wrinkle from being in the water for too long. The beads do feel strange at first but this soon gives way to a light massaging effect.

Once you’ve relaxed and enjoyed, add step 2 sachet which contains salts to dissolve the gel beads and also to give the benefits of a salt infused spa bath.  I found I had to rinse off a few of the beads afterwards but a small price to pay for a long relaxing soak.

Available in three moods:

Revive- infused with rosemary to awaken the senses

Soothe – infused with juniper to help relieve muscle tension and calm aches and pains

Relax- infused with lavender, jasmine and bergamot to calm both mind and body for a peaceful night’s sleep.

The package is simple, but it’s a single use product so won’t be in the packet for long. Available at Boots stores and online at www.boots.com for £9.99

Home Spas - Temple Spa

Christmas is nearly upon us and the shopping and festive preparations are well underway. It’s a heady mix of stress and excitement, exhaustion and energy bursts, happy and grumpy times.

So somehow and somewhere between these emotions, you need to relax and pamper your body and mind to give you the strength to carry on.

 Maybe you don’t have time (or the money) to book in to a spa, so the next best thing is to create your own home spa. So first up is Temple Spa's Bathing Ritual Set.

Want to feel like Cleopatra and bathe in milk?

Temple Spa’s Bathing Ritual is not exactly milk, plus I’m sure she didn’t really bathe in the sticky stuff. But their Drift Away bath oil does turn the water milky so you can feel like a pampered Egyptian Queen with the added benefit of a more pleasant fragrance.

Ingredients include; Patchouli, geranium, frankincense, dill seed oil, black pepper oil, sesame, jojoba, petit grain, myrrh, galbanum and avocado oil.

Set the mood by lighting the All Quiet aromatic candle and by hanging the Do Not Disturb lavender pillow on the door (this also can be reused as a drawer sachet afterwards)

 All is prepared for the bathing ritual. First relax and enjoy the oils.  When ready arise from your milky bath and exfoliate your damp skin with Prepare to Bare sugar buff. Then relax in the bath again –after all you don’t want to exert yourself.

Step out of the bath and cocoon yourself in a warm towel. Pat dry and apply Duvet firming body cream with its omega oils, Guarani, vitamin E and a blend of ten calming essentials oils.

The packet also includes Repose, a face moisturiser with a relaxing aroma – add to your palms and breathe in the relaxing aroma before applying to cleansed face and neck.

The final stage is the Quietude body comforting mist, spray in the air around you or on your pulse points for a sense of peace and calm.

All products are paraben free. Price £38 and available online:   www.templespa.com/judybull.

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