Edwina Ings-Chambers: Bodycare has upped its game... - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Beauty Edwina Ings-Chambers Bodycare has upped its game… By You Magazine - September 5, 2021 …and this big smoothie is my current favourite. It isn’t often that I’ll get overly excited by a body lotion. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t some great ones on the market. In fact, one of my most longstanding beauty product love affairs has been with the Clarins Moisture-Rich Body Lotion and its delicate smell of orange blossom. More than that, in the past couple of years there has been an increasing focus on the skincare we apply from the neck down and a movement to ensure that these creams also come packed with some of the powerful and efficacious ingredients that we usually associate with our face products. Which means that the category has seriously been upping its game. A great – and affordable – example is The Solution (from £9.99, thesolutionbeauty.co.uk), with its easy-to-understand labelling and body lotions boasting vitamin C to brighten and hyaluronic acid to moisturise. But there is a new bodycare-dedicated brand that I have heavily fallen for: Messiah and Eve. It is taking a proper skincare route to its range, which includes everything from bath oils to body cleansers. My favourite offering is its Body Cream (£25, messiahandeve.co.uk), which comes with plant-derived squalane for deep moisturisation, prebiotics to aid a healthy skin barrier, vitamin B5 to soothe, and jojoba and avocado oils to soften. The reason for my ardour, though, goes beyond the practical. The fragrance to this range is wonderful. It’s the kind of fine aroma that if it were bottled by itself you’d pay good money for, and getting to slather it on limbs feels indulgent and spoiling and mood-boosting. It smells so good I usually use it as my fragrance for the day as nothing else is required and it lasts well on skin – I’ve had friends ask me what perfume I’m wearing long into the evening even after a morning application. So how does it smell? A bit churchy but sexy, a rich evocative blend of jasmine, leather notes and black pepper. In other words: glorious. @edwinaingschambers Great hair… every day I thought I’d highlight a couple of other everyday products that have been lifted to the realms of the special thanks to their fine fragrance. First is top hairdresser George Northwood’s Undone range of shampoos and conditioners (from £12 each, georgenorthwood.com). With notes of violet and sandalwood, it elevates a morning shower to luxurious levels and, of course, leaves hair smelling wonderful. And hair guru Sam McKnight’s line of styling products (from £10, cultbeauty.co.uk) smells the opposite of quotidian. Rather it is a blend of frankincense, green leaf and an aroma created by perfumer Lyn Harris. This helps me scrub up well And continuing on a ‘rest of the body’ theme, if you’re in the market for a new body scrub then Sanctuary Spa has just extended its White Lily & Damask Rose range to include a Himalayan Salt Scrub. It’s effective and the aroma is pretty and refreshing. £10, boots.com. Beauty assistant: Alice Robertson RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR You could get paid to test Liberty’ s Beauty Advent Calendar People are obsessed with this Revlon hair drying tool A new drop of Boots Star Gifts has landed for Christmas 2022 Popular in Beauty 8 of the best sets of press-on nails to see you July 6, 2020 The nail polish worn by Meghan Markle on her wedding day July 27, 2020 Holly Willoughby’ s go-to eye serum is a £6 bargain August 18, 2020 John Lewis has confirmed the line-up for the next Virtual Beauty September 10, 2020 Lush just added to its bestselling Sleepy range with a dreamy September 30, 2020 These are the UK s favourite fragrances starting from just £8 June 22, 2022 These are the bestselling fragrances at Boots right now November 18, 2020 Olay’ s bestselling Regenerist face cream is better than half price on March 8, 2022 This is the £4 90 concealer Holly Willoughby uses to transform her January 20, 2021 Edwina Ings-Chambers Big love for these little labels February 14, 2021 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved