Beauty Picks: Natural Nail Polish and a Cloth in a Box

When the Duchess of Sussex made her first post-birth appearance to let the world see Baby Archie she was wearing a neutral glossy mani. Ever the trendsetter the look has now become popular.

You can get the look with SensatioNail’s NEW Nailtural Natural Nail Polish in Sheer Selflessness, £9.90 – A gorgeous pastel shade. Normal nail polish has loads of awful chemicals so I refuse to wear it. Thank goodness for the natural stuff.

  • Containing up to 85% plant derived ingredients such as potato, corn & wheat
  • Nailtural contains no harsh chemicals
  • Vegan, cruelty free & 10 free from formula

Nailtural is available from SensatioNail.co.uk, £9.90 each

I also loved the brand new eco-friendly, yet highly effective, alternative to facial wipes – Face It Makeup Remover Cloth, £12,99, Makeupbox-ldn.co.uk, You can take your make up off quickly and it is so much more friendly than facial wipes.

 

The innovative heart-shaped facecloth perfectly contours your face with its two pockets, giving you total control over your cleansing routine. Add your favourite cleanser and a little water, then gently massage across your face in a circular motion – this helps to gently exfoliate your skin too.

 

Created with ultra-soft microfibre fabric, even the smallest amount of makeup gets picked up with the Face It Makeup Remover Cloth to leave your skin feeling fresh, clean and super smooth again.

 

It’s suitable for all skin types, helps reduce environmental waste such as cotton pads and wipes and can be re-used by cleaning in the washing machine for future use. Good stuff.

 

O-Food – Environmentally Friendly and Healthy Fast Food

One of the O-Food founders Jens Hannibal in the blue shirt

On Thursday Frost went to the launch of an exciting new restaurant concept, O-Food. This was the most inspiring event we’d been to for a long time. O Food is a new eco friendly healthy fast food restaurant. They serve seafood and vegetarian food but no meat. O-Food believe that by changing the way we eat we can change ourselves and the planet.

It’s not long before we meet one of the founders of O-Food, the friendly and passionate Jens. Jens tell us that their main aim is to create great food. ‘Everything else is just something we think everybody should be doing’, he says.

‘We’re not people who think that meat-based fast food is inherently bad. We just think that someone needs to take the lead  to show people delicious, low impact, alternatives to meat and mainstream choices of fish.’

O-Food sources all its produce from local sustainable sources. The fish it uses are non- ‘Big Five’. The so called  ‘Big Five’, Haddock, Prawns, Tuna, Cod and Salmon, are being terribly overfished and this is becoming increasingly unsustainable.

Jens tells us more, ‘It’s very sad, because people don’t know about these other delicious sustainable alternatives and there’s no demand for them, many of them just get thrown back into the sea’.

One of the O-food founders. Roel Philippart

It’s a major problem but people are starting to realise and O-Food is leading the way in raising awareness. Both Sainsburys and Morrisons have recently helped promote alternatives and they’ve seen a surge in demand for alternative fish.

Jens is so passionate and enthusiastic that eventually someone has to drag him away from us and take him to see some other guests.

As Jens disappears we turn our attention to the all important question of the food. Everything we tried was delicious. The chef who had put the recipes together was clearly extremely talented. What was particularly evident was the exceptional quality of the ingredients particularly the fish.

I was I confess surprised at just how good the fish tasted. The fish actually tasted better than the mainstream ‘big 5’ fish I was used too. We had two favourites, mine The Hastings

Fishy patty, Romaine Lettuce, Tomato, Gherkin, Curry Sauce

I don’t even like gherkin or curry sauce and yet this combination was simply divine, everybody we spoke to loved it. I urge anyone to go and try it if they can.

There are no sandwiches left! A common theme of the night as soon as the food was brought out it was gone.

My colleagues favourite was The Portobello

Portbello mushroom, mature cheddar, roast pepper relish, red cabbage, romaine, nordic pesto.

This was also delicious, a wonderful combination of flavours.

You can find a full menu and more information at the O-Food website. Everyone we spoke to from O-Food was full of passion and energy. This is a great concept and they’ve created some fantastic food. I hope this is the future of fast food. O-Food is far more exciting, tasty and healthy than your than standard pret or eat sandwich.

They are currently testing the concept and will be open until the 23rd of September with their pop-up restaurant. It can be found at 54 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3QN. Open from 8am to 4pm Monday to Friday. Go along and try it! You won’t be disappointed.