A beautiful new start...

We love these winter months, as the new year starts to unfold.  The chance to de-junk our bathroom cabinets and make-up bags, read in bed, acquire good health habits (like ensuring we’re on that Yoga mat like clockwork, or purifying our systems with a detox…)  Naturally, we adore spring.  And summer can be blissful – but there’s a sense of time moving slowly, in these darker months, allowing us time to reflect, to tidy up, or just to be…

So:  take time to enjoy this update, after the frenzy of late 2009.  We have six fantastic prize draws you’ll want to enter – a spa getaway from Champneys, two bumper baskets of products from our book The Green Beauty Bible, award-winning products from A’kin, a heavenly rose fragrance from ‘cult’ perfumery Ormonde Jayne, a year’s worth of skincare from Beauty Expert, and three sets of detoxing products from expert Jane Scrivner’s new range.  (And this detoxing expert has given us her excellent Top 10 Detox Tips, if you click here…

Find the in-depth answers to your beauty questions in Q&A – and read all about our very, very favourite mood-lifting, prettifying finds in We …  And don’t forget to read our Beauty Bible blog, which takes you behind the scenes of the beauty industry:  the people and products making beauty news.  (You can follow the blog on Twitter, too: Twitter.com/Beauty_Bible.)

If your New Year’s Resolution is to make savvier beauty choices and generally waste less on beauty and wellbeing, you’ve come to the right place.  We hope our Tried & Tested Uplifting Bath Treats will help steer you to products that will truly retrieve your lost get-up-and-go – and that our INSIDER DISCOUNTS section helps you find beauty products on-line, at less than you’d usually pay.  (And if you scroll down the menu on the right, you can find products we’re loving on our Beauty Bible-approved websites...)

Look out in store and on all sorts of websites too, for special Beauty Bible Awards stickers that proclaim the winning status of the products our testers have loved.  Keep an eye open for the green stickers - which let you take a short-cut to natural products that have scored highly in our consumer surveys, and the shocking pink stickers that are your fast-track to inexpensive products that have wowed the real women (now over 8,000) who take part in our trials.

Last but not least, we’d like to say welcome to new subscribers who got our books for Christmas, and who are just discovering our site for the first time.  Could 2010 be the year you make a beautiful new start, and never buy a beauty product that disappoints…?  We’d like to think so.  Because that’s what we’re all about…!

With love,

Jo and Sarah

xxxx