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Beauty Spy - Getting under the skin of the health & beauty industry
While we’re as tired as you of hearing the word detox, to be honest sometimes you need the cleanse. And though our last attempt involved copious amounts of snuck-in cheese toasties and tears at bedtime, we’re feeling a renewed interest bubbling up in the office. Here are our top four picks for willing participants.
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GO EASY
Agua Spa Cuisine Packages at The Sanderson
If your idea of a detox involves more mud mask than mungbeans, check out the new cuisine packages at the Agua Spa which include two 30 minute treatments, a beauty juice and a menu option. Choose from ‘Anti Ageing’ with an Eve Lom cleanse and calendula salad, ‘Antioxidant’ with grape and cucumber gazpacho and citrus facial, or the ‘Purifying’ with tropical fruit salad, chamomile panna cotta and deluxe reflexology. And that’s just a taster — there are 8 packages in total.
From £100. Check out more here.
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GO RAW
Frame and Raw Fairies
Ah, our old nemesis… yes we’ve done the Raw Fairies deal and whilst we found ten days hard, we did like the results. So dip a toe in with this cool two-week collaboration between the detox delivery service and one of our favourite Shoreditchian fitness studios. Included are food, smoothies and supplements handily delivered to your door to eliminate any oohing, aahing and (most importantly) recipe-dodging as part of the 5-day Mini-B plan (with recipe advice the following week), as well as 5 yoga sessions, a rebounding and a vibe class at the gym.
Call Frame to get started and let them know you're doing the two-week detox.
£310.
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GO HARD
Chris James Cleanse
If all this namby-pamby half a*sed detoxing is doing your head in we’ve got the hard-headed (rather than hand-holding) solution. This brand new 12 day regenerative programme courtesy of health and yoga guru Chris James combines dietary guidance, a fibrous intestinal cleanser and highest grade supplements which work to rejuvenate via various phases, including the 3 day, juice-only ‘Power Phase’. There’s even a virtual support centre online for anyone experiencing a wobbly moment. So far we’ve rattled the vast pill box and perused the no-no list which includes a lock-down on all meats, fish, dairy, salts, coffee and soft drinks. The results are meant to be amazing, but until we get a juicer in the office and a serious meal-plan in place we’re sticking to the Starbucks — but stay tuned.
£79.99, www.chrisjamescleanse.com, 0871 223 0507.
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GO AWAY
The Ibiza K Retreat
If you’re already thinking about the summer holidays we have the perfect feel-good escape on the cards for May. Set in the gorgeously secluded South West of Ibiza, the Can Verru Villa (beloved of Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue) is the location for our favourite London pilates studio’s first international retreat. Promising yoga, dynamic pilates, massage, organic meals and meditation in rural Mediterranean surroundings, owners Rosaria and James are guaranteed to get you relaxed and recuperated. Grab one of the 6 en-suite bedrooms for this getaway while you can (and flights to the island are still cheap), and see yourself jumping into the pool in a matter of months — with the perfect swimsuit body to boot.
23-28th May, from £1250. www.pilatesk.co.uk
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PRODUCT PICK
The Fresh-Faced Cheat Sheet
If you don’t have the patience (or time) to detox, we have a couple of quick fixes. First, Artistry Intensives Renewing Peel leaves you with silky soft skin after a satisfyingly tingly application period (thank the Mucor Miehei mushroom extract, a fungus enzyme that imitates the skin’s own natural exfoliating process). And if nature’s your bag go one step further with what Space NK are heralding as the must-have product of 2011 — Rodial’s Glamoxy Snake Serum. It promises to ‘reduce facial contractions, fill lines and boost glow’ with the aid of syn-ake; a neuro peptide that mimics the effects of the Temple Viper's potent venom. Yes really.
Artistry Intensives Renewing Peel, £60.25. Available at the Amway Experience Centre in Holborn, London, WC1, 0207 400 1100
Glamoxy Snake Serum, from £29.
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