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Neal's Yard has been offering treatments for a while now, but its new massage deal, designed especially for stressed-out shoppers, is really not to be missed: for the great price of £25 (£35 in London), you'll get a full table massage, complete with natural aromatherapy oils by one of the company's highly trained therapists -- a far cry from the rushed chair massages that I'm used to finding in shopping areas, and actually cheaper than some, too! I had the chance to sample this new treatment yesterday, hoping for relief from my aching shoulders...
Read on for my review
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A year ago, I started testing products in what was then quite a niche area of skincare: natural and chemically simple moisturisers and cleansers that didn't contain any ingredients that had raised concern. The idea of removing parabens (preservatives), SLS (a foaming agent) and animal ingredients was still considered a crazy move by many profit-driven beauty brands, so it was mostly unknown labels that had made the most progress in this area. But now, you're spoilt for choice if you want a more natural option for your skin, and the quality of the products has improved dramatically in just a few months.
Click on the image below to see the best products I've tried and tested so far
Health & beauty
While the Isabella Smith range at Bobelle does remind me somewhat of the sort of thing my mother had on her dressing table in the 80s, I have to admit to a certain fondness for this type of old-fashioned, sweet-smelling ladies' powder room fare. The melon bath oil, with emollient apricot oil gives a really rich, relaxing fragrance that will perfume the house as well as your body, and best of all the range is made to strict eco-friendly standards: ingredients are 100% natural and stored in recycled glass. The bath oil is £14 from Bobelle.
Hippyshopper how-tos
We're used to skincare being presented as a complex science, so at first glance, making your own potions and lotions sounds like a daunting idea. But skincare is really very simple, and you can make a very versatile day to day moisturiser using just three ingredients. In an age of ruinously expensive skincare products and obscure additives, there's no surer way to avoid putting unneccesary junk on you skin than going down the homemade route, so here's a basic 'recipe' to get you started.
Follow the jump for instructions.
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competitions
Just a quick heads-up about the fantastic prize we're offering to any green beauty addicts out there, courtesy of our friends at Big Green Smile who want to offer you a bumper beauty pack worth £52. The site has recently expanded its body and skincare range to include many of our favourite hippy brands, including Jason, Yes To Carrots and Weleda.
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Green News
We all remember the Timotei ads of days gone by: only yesterday, a dark-haired colleague was heard to confess that she had thought as a child the shampoo would transform her short, dark, curly tresses to platinum blonde. But now Timotei's all grown up, and celebrating its 25th birthday with a more serious gesture towards nature and to helping our natural heritage. It's teamed up with The Woodland Trust to create a crop of 'forests of flowers'.
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competitions
Great news for any green beauty addicts out there: today I've got a fantastic prize courtesy of our friends at Big Green Smile who want to offer you a bumper beauty pack worth £52. The site has recently expanded its body and skincare range to include many of our favourite hippy brands, including Jason, Yes To Carrots and Weleda.
Follow the jump to find out how to enter...
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