Win a fabulous £250 gift voucher to spend on gorgeousness at HQhair.com
Win Liz Earle’s new fragrance - 10 to give away, each worth £39.50
Win fabulous award-winning hair products from TOMMYGUNS – each set worth over £15
Win a facial rejuvenation treatment worth £150 with celebrated acupuncturist Annee de Mamiel
Win personalised skincare products from Avène worth £50 (plus an exclusive bathrobe)
Win 3 hours of pampering at the Treatment Rooms in Brighton, worth £165,
plus 5 runner up prizes of Aromatherapy Associates body products, each worth
£62.65
WE LOVE LOVE LULA, YOU’LL LOVE LOVE LULA – AND YOU’LL CERTAINLY LOVE YOUR 5% DISCOUNT…
Take advantage of your exclusive discount at this award-winning site. And when you spend £35, look forward to a free Trilogy Starter Kit, worth £9.95…
As visitors to the Love Lula website can now clearly see, this website carries many of the products that have done so well in our Tried & Testeds for The Green Beauty Bible (including the incredibly high-scoring ‘miracle treatment’, Logona Wrinkle Therapy Fluid, which you can read more about below). So when you log on, look out for the ‘Green Beauty Bible Awards’ logos, flagging up all the winning products.
This easy-to-navigate, prettily-designed website - founded by Lula Braithwaite – won Best Retail Website in the Natural Health Beauty Awards 2009 and offers over 1200 natural and organic skincare products. And, best of all, as a Beauty Bible ‘insider’ you are entitled to a 5% discount on everything at Love Lula. For a complete list of the brands which are available at this discount, click hereto be whisked to the Love Lula INSIDER DISCOUNTSpage on our site. Then simply add the code bb10 every time you check out, and you will automatically receive your discount.
Plus, if you spend over £35, there’s a fab gift waiting for you: a Trilogy Starter Kit, worth £9.95, which is a fantastic way to discover a New Zealand brand that we rate highly, featuring a cleanser, exfoliant facial scrub and moisturiser. So: for our favourite finds right now, read on…
Neal’s Yard Nourishing Melissa Hand Polish, £14 for 100 g (add the code bb10 at checkout and that brings it down to £13.30). Suddenly, it’s all about hand scrubs. A whole new beauty category – and Neal’s Yard has a contender: wet your hands and massage in this scrub for an instant, dinginess-banishing ‘hand makeover’. With sunflower oil and aloe, this Soil Association-certified organic product leaves hands supple, as well as brighter-looking. And if you do slather on hand cream afterwards, it will penetrate more easily.
Trilogy Age Proof Daily Defence Moisturiser SPF15, £27.95 for 50 ml (or £26.55 to you). The days are getting longer. (Thank heavens.) The sun is getting stronger. (Ditto.) And this is definitely the time of year to start thinking about wearing a daily sunscreen, for age-protection. The challenge for natural beauties: mineral sunscreens can be heavy, giving skin a blue-ish cast. So this lightweight formula is a blend of minerals with a photo-stable, environmentally-sound synthetic sunscreen, for wearable, sinks-in-fast daily protection. A good compromise, we feel.
Green People Pressed Mineral Foundation Powder SPF15, £19.99. Green People have moved into make-up! And – a real breakthrough - their range is organically-certified by Ecocert. In a compact you’d be happy to whip out at the dinner table, this has a flattering, light-reflecting-but-matte-at-the-same-time super-smooth finish. Not a huge choice of shades (yet) but Caramel is good for pale skins with yellow (rather than pink) undertones. Best applied with a fluffy ‘kabuki’ brush – though you’ll have to buy one separately.
Logona Wrinkle Therapy Fluid, £36.79 for 30 ml (and you get 5% discount if you add the code bb10 at checkout). What can we say? This scored an incredibly impressive 8.81/10 (averaged across 10 testers – do the math!) in the extremely tough ‘Tried & Tested Miracle Cream’ category. We’ll leave it to our testers to share their raves.
Comments: ‘Like the texture, a cross between a serum and hydrating milk; smells like fresh flowers and strawberries, sinks in quickly, leaving light film on skin; faint sun spots nearly gone and frown line too; this product marks a turning point’ • ‘a nice treat’ • ‘skin smoother, softer, more radiant and youthful: bigger wrinkles improving steadily, everyone has noticed’ • ‘I don’t normally gush, but this is a wonder product – I am truly amazed and impressed; I give ten to infinity marks – and beyond’ • ‘I’m 39 and it has wiped off 15 years – reducing redness, blemishes and fine lines’ • ‘visible difference in skin softness and smoothness as well as plumpness’ • ‘reduced crêpiness on neck’.
Vonny Bee Butter Balm, from £7.50-22.99 (take 5% off that). The simplest of skin-soothing beauty products, created by a beekeeper and complementary therapist, following biodynamic principles – containing just beeswax, propolis, olive and almond oils, plus coconut butter, aromatically scented with lavender. A genius multi-tasker.
Suki Lip Trio Compact, £24.97 (minus your discount, making it £23.72 to our ‘insiders’). A lipsmackingly gorgeous treat for lips, featuring Suki’s excellent Lip Butter to prime and soften lips, together with two wearable shades of velvety colour (think soft wine and a baby pink) that can be worn on lips or cheeks.
Weleda Pine Reviving Bath Milk, £8.95 for 200 ml (that’s £8.50 to you). Another Green Beauty Bible Award-winner, in the Reviving Bath Treat category. If you can’t shake off the winter blahs, this is wonderfully reviving – but we’ll hand over to our testers for their impressions.
Comments: ‘So pleasant: a very natural pine smell that left me relaxed and also energised; skin felt soft, too’ • ‘I love this natural wonder, which has rid me of a prejudice against (synthetic) pine baths; I felt tired, uninspired and irritable and emerged refreshed, soothed and inspired, with energy’ • ‘great for releasing you from petty stresses and strains before a night out’ • ‘looks great on the shelf’ • ‘fab pure ingredients; skin felt soft and moisturised and very dry skin on legs not as scaly as usual’ • ‘lifted my spirits and I felt re-energised.’
Neal’s Yard Nourishing Melissa Hand Polish
Trilogy Age Proof Daily Defence Moisturiser SPF15
Logona Wrinkle Therapy Fluid
