Wave: Health & beauty news & reviews
Lush Beach Ball bag
The newest addition to Lush’s environmentally friendly Knot-Wrap range is designed to look just like a beach ball when it’s wrapped up. The new bag can be used to carry your summer essentials about while you head to the beach and enjoy the summer sunshine. Lush introduced their successful Knot-Wrap range in 2009, offering vintage scarves as a means of gift-wrapping in-store to encourage customers to save on paper usage. Using techniques similar to origami, the idea originated from Japanese culture where it promotes caring for the environment and reducing waste.
Available from Lush shops nationwide and at www.lush.co.uk
Sun cream allergies
We’re all advised to wear factor 30 in the sun – or higher, but spots, rashes and swollen skin are allergic reactions many people can get from wearing high-factor sun creams. Add new product, KALME Undercoat, to your holiday shopping list and make allergic reactions to sun cream a thing of the past. The all-important ingredient is ‘Skinasensyl’, which reduces the nerve response to external irritants by decreasing the release of pro-inflammatory neuromediators in the skin. KALME Undercoat should be applied as an ‘undercoat’ before sun creams or SPF foundations are applied to help de-sensitise skin. The product is suitable for adults and children and can also be used simply as a desensitising moisturiser on its own or as an undercoat.
KALME Undercoat costs £17 (75ml), www.skinshop.co.uk
Naked Truth
Cosmetic doctor Dr Darren McKeown has launched a ‘no nonsense’ skin-care range, available exclusively in Superdrug. The range of five anti-ageing products contains a collection of the most scientifically proven active ingredients including peptides, retinoids, zinc and vitamin E which all work together to keep skin in optimum condition.
Dr McKeown says “If an active ingredient has been scientifically shown to reduce wrinkles by 60 per cent over a six-month period, what is the point in telling people it will eliminate all of them in two weeks? Yes, it may encourage people to buy your product in the short term, but ultimately it is going to lead to disappointment. There is good scientific evidence to support the efficacy of some active ingredients, but a lot of the benefit is wasted because the beauty industry flaunts so many unrealistic claims. I wanted to create a range which people can trust to be honest about what a product will really do.”
The Naked Truth range is available from?Superdrug stores and www.superdrug.co.uk
Netcycler
Are you one for keeping items you really don’t need anymore? We are all guilty of this at some point of another. Swapping website, Netcycler, has just arrived in the UK. The online service allows to you swap and give away unwanted items for things you really want. By creating matches between offers and wishes, all you need to do is list what you want to get rid of and what you would like in return. The service can automatically form trade rings between three or more people, so that each swapper both gives and receives something, significantly increasing the possibility of getting something you really want.
The site aims to help people minimise waste by finding homes for things we no longer need.
A survey commissioned for the launch found that 47 per cent of people admitted owning clothes that they had not or had only barely worn in the past year. In addition, people living in the South East are more likely anyone else in the UK to hoard a bread maker (19 per cent compared to 15 per cent nationally) or musical instrument (21 per cent compared to 16 per cent) that they never or rarely use! Get trading today!
www.netcycler.co.uk
