Category Archives: Life & Style

Meet Active Microscrub: Teoxane’s First Exfoliating Scrub

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There is a new product on the block, Active Microscrub, the first exfoliating scrub from Teoxane. Designed to enhance your skin’s radiance by hydrating, strengthening the skin barrier, and gently removing dead skin cells.

Inspired by Teoxane’s ground-breaking dermal filler technology, Active Microscrub features the brand’s signature RHA resilient hyaluronic acid®, which is a cross linked form of hyaluronic acid, created through a patented process to deliver optimal hydration.

Active Microscrub (50ml, £42) is available at www.teoxane.co.uk.

  • A luxurious gel-to-milk texture
  • Exfoliating grains derived from volcanic glass, infused with mineral-rich ingredients
  • Papain enzyme, a natural polypeptide that promotes gentle exfoliation and speeds up cell turnover
  • Suitable even for sensitive skin — leaving it smooth, toned, and refreshed

Apply 2 to 3 times a week to clean, dry skin (avoiding the eye area). Leave on for 2–3 minutes, then rinse thoroughly with water.

Alcohol-Free White Wine. Just In Time For Summer!

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I have a new favourite thing: luxury alcohol-free wine brand, Moderato

With brighter days ahead and summer socials well and truly on the horizon, Moderato (the award-winning French wine brand shaking up the alcohol-free scene) is here to answer all of our non-alcoholic needs.

With so many of us choosing a more mindful approach to drinking during the summer months, Moderato’s Cuvee Revolutionnaire White Wine lands in Majestic wine stores at just the right time. With <0.5% ABV and no compromise on taste, this white wine is fresh and crisp. What’s more, it tastes just like the real thing. A typical grape variety from Gascony, our colombard is responsible for our non-alcoholic white (<0.5%), which is highly aromatic and slightly acidic and a true representative of the region.

 So, whether you’re hosting a sun-soaked BBQ in the garden, picnicking in the park or simply enjoying golden hour with friends on the balcony, Moderato’s alcohol-free wine brings effortless elegance to the occasion – allowing you to make the most of your active summer social plans.  

Founders Sebastien and Fabien created Moderato, together with Oenologist Frédéric Brochet, to pioneer a new approach to alcohol-free wine. Just last year Moderato has collected a total of four medals from the globally recognised international Wine, Beer and Spirits Competition of Lyon, as well as the World Alcohol Free Awards. Moderato’s full range of award-winning alcohol-free wines is available to taste and buy at the Club Soda shop, bar and tasting room, online at joinclubsoda.com, with Moderato Cuvee Revolutionnaire Colombard, Moderato Cuvee Revolutionnaire Merlot-Tannat and Moderato Cuvee Revolutionnaire Rosé available at Majestic Wines.  

Moderato’s Cuvee Revolutionnaire white wine is available from Majestic wine.

Why not explore the rest of the Cuvee Revolutionnaire range (red, rośe and sparkling) at Majestic, Club Soda or Wise Bartender?

The New Microplane Rotary Fine Blade Grater – Home-made Chocolate Sprinkles To Die For – by Award Winning Author Dr Kathleen Thompson

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I absolutely love Microplane products and the Microplane Rotary Fine Blade Grater is simply the best companion to the Microplane Premium Classic Zester, which has been featured in Frost Magazine previously.

As with all Microplane products, the inspiration came from a Canadian housewife who, fed up with her traditional grater, borrowed one of her husband’s wood-working tools. Suddenly kitchen gadgets had the quality of professional work tools. In fact Microplane is globally recognized as the original manufacturer to apply photo-etching technology to create ultra sharp edges for graters and blades. Let’s just say, once you’ve tried them you could never go back.

The Rotary Fine Blade Grater is light but strong and so easy to use. It consists of just three pieces which fit together in seconds and dismantle easily for washing and storage too. You simply insert whatever you want to grate – a piece of cheese or chocolate for example into the hopper and gently press whilst turning the handle. The result is beautiful, finely-grated product with no grated finger-tips in the process. But it doesn’t stop there, because the clever design means the hopper is effectively a small container, so you can also fill it with, say pistachio nuts, turn the handle and in minutes you have a fine layer of delicious-grated pistachio (anybody else fantasising about Dubai-style chocolate, or is it just me?) Well, if you are, you can make your own, oh, so easily using the Rotary Fine Blade Grater.

RRP for this little beauty is just £39.95 – available from John Lewis.

And talking about sharp and effective culinary products, I have a stop press on the Tormek T-1 Kitchen Knife Sharpener, the absolutely top of the range knife sharpener, featured by Frost Magazine . A new colour has been added to the already attractive and varied range – Ash Green – it’s simply beautiful. Available from the Tormek website, RRP £335.

By Dr K Thompson, award-winning author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows

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Note: These articles express personal views. No warranty is made as to the accuracy or completeness of information given and you should always consult a doctor if you need medical advice.

The Beauty Tech Trend is Not Going Anywhere – Magnitone’s Got You!

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Beauty tech is a huge industry and rightly so. Luckily for us it doesn’t have to break the bank as MAGNITONE has some great tools that are affordable.

We’re talking skincare gadgets, LED masks, and glow-boosting tech without the high-end price tag. Whether you’re refreshing your routine or treating yourself just because (we support that), these beauty tools are great. I love the mask. It’s easy to use and has three different settings for all of your beauty woes. The tri colour LED face mask just fits onto your face as if they are a pair of glasses. Easy-to-use and works? Sign me up.

MAGNITONE GET LIT Tri Colour LED Face Mask 

Target wrinkles, blemishes and dull skin in just 15 minutes with the GetLit® Tri Colour LED Face Mask. This lightweight, portable and super comfortable LED treatment will take your home facials up a level, leaving skin feeling radiant.

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MAGNITONE FaceRocket 5-in-1 Facial Firming and Toning Device 

Get cutting edge clinical technology from the comfort of your own home, with FaceRocket® – the ultimate facial firming and toning device that’s clinically proven to improve skin firmness by 29%, dermal density by 35% and reduce wrinkles by 10%. Follow our step-by-step 28 Day Face Programme and, in just 4 weeks, your skin will look out of this world!

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Philip Kingsley’s Body Building Range.

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Philip Kingsley always makes the best in hair care.

Having good hair makes us feel better about ourselves. Good hair always means confidence. Philip Kingsley’s Body Building range works to give you the best hair you can get. With a lightweight shampoo, conditioner that does not weigh your hair down, a root boosting spray and a maximiser strand plumping cream. They all work beautifully together to leave you boosted.

One Cornish Summer With You by Phillipa Ashley Book Review

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Phillipa Ashley is at the top of her game. I devoured this book in a day and a half. It’s quite chunky so that’s an achievement. I was swept away in the works of art Tammy makes, and this wonderful story of love and family. All set in glorious Cornwall.

Tammy cherished her childhood growing up in the charming harbour town of Porthmellow. However, when her father’s bankruptcy and her mother’s abandonment shattered her world, she quickly realised that nothing lasts forever.

Now, Tammy dedicates her days to creating art in the golden Cornish sand, determined to shield herself from further heartbreak. But her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Ruan – a captivating solicitor who has relocated to Cornwall seeking a fresh start.

As Tammy begins to question if Ruan could be the key to breaking down her walls, she uncovers a shocking secret – one that shatters everything she believed she knew about her past.

Can they work past it? Will everything be okay? Read this brilliant book and find out.

A Secret Escape by Sarah Morgan Book Review

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A Secret Escape went straight into The Sunday Times bestseller list. Deservedly so. I wanted to read it after the blurb said it was about two female friends that have lost contact, and one asks the other for help after ghosting her. Could a female friendship be repaired? Should it?
Milly and Nicole are lifelong friends who have drifted apart. Milly likes a quiet life with her daughter, running her business, and Nicole is a successful actress. They same very different, but practically grew up together. Nicole’s mother not being the maternal type.
I love A Secret Escape for a lot of reasons. One is obviously the characters. Sarah Morgan sure can write them. She takes you under their skin. The story is fantastic and woven together expertly. The book has its heartbreak, as well as its joyful moments. The story leaves you guessing all the way. A Secret Escape is the perfect summer book to get lost in. I read it in a day. A perfect five star read from a masterful writer at the top of their game.

A lifelong friendship

Childhood friends Milly and Nicole had always been more like sisters so Milly never understood why Nicole dropped out of contact all those months ago. Milly buried that hurt and moved on with her life.

A call for help

Now, suddenly, Nicole is begging for Milly’s help. She needs somewhere private to hide, and the only safe place she can think of is Milly’s holiday home business in the Lake District. Milly knows she should tell Nicole no, but she can’t ignore the desperation in her old friend’s voice so, despite her misgivings, she agrees to let Nicole stay.

A summer to reconnect

Over a summer of tentative conversations, the two women begin to reconnect, and there’s a potential new romance for Milly too. But then the biggest bombshell of all lands and their delicate friendship is put to the test once more …

Can the friends come together in this time of need, or will this summer break their bond forever?