Beauty Bible Spring & Summer Collection
From Sarah Stacey & Jo Fairley, co-authors of the Beauty Bible series and www.beautybible.com
Well, dear lovely beauty hounds, hang on to your seats because here are some more of our Most Important Secrets! Friends and readers are always asking what supplements we take, so – as we look forward to longer, lighter days when we can be outside gardening, riding, swimming, walking and all those summery activities – we’ve asked Victoria Health to put together a new Beauty Bible Spring & Summer Capsule Collection of the products we totally rely on. As well as supplements, you’ll find the Beauty Bible Spring & Summer Capsule Collection features a couple of other goodies we’ve popped in because we think they are the best we have ever come across.
With Love
Sibergin
We discovered this extraordinary energiser when we were nearly exhausted writing The Green Beauty Bible. It contains Siberian Ginseng, which stimulates the adrenal glands to produce enzymes which give you more energy. It also helps you deal with stress factors of all kinds – physical, mental and environmental. You won’t go into rocket mode – but, if you’re like us, you will find you can do what you need without getting exhausted. It’s also brilliant if you’ve been ill, particularly with an infection of any kind.
Sibergin £13.40 for 30 capsules
Sun Chlorella
This ‘green food’ produced in Japan is a very ancient – over five billions years old – algae (like seaweed and spirulina), which contains a range of vital nutrients our bodies need. As well as helping energy levels, it helps upset tummies (with irritable bowel syndrome symptoms), and in Sarah’s experience improves skin condition, as well as hair and nails, quite remarkably. In fact, it also seems to give you a mini facelift: one practitioner of Chinese medicine says this may be through its stomach-calming action as the stomach meridians run down either side of your face and from under your eyes to your jawline. Start at 15 tiny green tablets a day, then build up to 40. PS two nutritionists we know recommend chlorella for patients going through chemotherapy.
Sun Chlorella £19.95 for 300 tablets
Ultimate Beauty Oil
This oil, which you take orally (rather than putting on your skin, though you could probably do that too), is stuffed full of essential fatty acids, which we all need to look and feel good. A small survey of people with rosacea showed that some found significant benefits by taking this – and, of course, it certainly can’t hurt anyone in any way.
Ultimate Beauty Oil £8.95 for 200m
Turbo Balm
This blend of cocoa butter, monoi and rose oils (from This Works, the skincare company started by our friend Kathy Phillips, formerly Beauty Director of Vogue) works brilliantly on lips, cuticles, elbows, heels – and any other bit of dry skin anywhere on your body! Sarah swears by dabbing it on feet and hands when they are looking scuzzy. Like all This Works products, Turbo Balm is a truly natural product, with no mineral oils, synthetic fragrances or colours, GM ingredients, sulphates, parabens or DEA.
Foot File by Alida Beauty
Yes, we know it looks like an elegant cheese grater but this is truly the best foot file in the world, ever! There’s a coarser side for taking off hard and dead skin and a finer one for smoothing. The pale green, non-slip handle gives a really good grip and the overall shape means you can reach every bit of your feet easily. Everyone who tries it is converted. (After all, who doesn’t want smooth soft feet with no hassle)
Foot File by Alida Beauty products, £9.95
Each item is available separately at the price listed above or for an exclusive discount price of £55 (saving 12%).
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Feel Fab Forever Classic Collection
Meno-Herbs 2
Tried and trusted natural HRT stuffed with plant oestrogens plus a heart-protecting compound. We take it and so do most of our friends. We swear by it.
Meno-Herbs 2, £17.95 for 90 tabs
GliSODin
We loved AgeLoss but we think this formula is even more effective. The 'SOD' bit stands for 'SuperOxide Dismutase', a very clever bit of biochemistry that primes the body to produce its own powerful primary antioxidants (SOD, catalase and glutathione peroxidase), which are completely vital for health, disease-fighting and anti-ageing.
GliSODin, £24.99 for 30 capsules
Essential Oil Formula
Essential Fatty Acids are, as the name implies, essential for every part of your body from brain and hormones, to hair and skin. Our bodies can't make them so you need to get them from your diet - and even if you are eating the best diet in the world, chances are that you aren't getting enough. We take three to four capsules daily (more if we've had a virus as these help persuade those pesky things to leave our bodies.)
Essential Oil Formula, £15.95 for 90 caps
Skin, Hair & Nails Herbal Tonic
This combination form Fushi, a company we like a lot, contains horsetail (which has the trace element silica), circulation-enhancing trikiatu, red clover, artichoke leaf and burdock root, to act together to help nourish skin, hair and nails.
Skin, Hair & Nails Herbal Tonic, £3.95 for 60ml
Womens Balance Essence
We have always been devotees of flower remedies, which use the vibrational energy of flowers to subtly tweak emotional ailments. (They are now used by doctors and in hospitals worldwide.) Women's Balance, which is formulated by the wonderful Rose Titchener, was recommended to us by a consultant gynaecologist who suggests his menopausal patients combine it with Meno-Herbs 2. It so does what it says on the bottle!
Womens Balance Essence, £9.25 for 30ml
Each item is available separately, or buy the whole collection worth £72.09 for an exclusive price of £63.50 (a discount of 12%).
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