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Beauty Bath treats & shower stars Bath or shower – or both? Whatever your bathing preference, Josephine Fairley explains that it’s all about the layering when it comes to choosing soaks, creams and salts to enhance your ablutions istockphoto.com/ BorisVasilenko Are you a bath or a shower person? More and more of us, I have observed, are both. Nothing really beats a bath for its therapeutic power, and the excuse to shut out the world while we sink beneath fragrant, sometimes mineralpowered waters, harnessing the power of hot water to relax our body and soothe our mind. (Best temperature for winding down? A neutral temperature, somewhere akin to that of the human body, or around 94-98°F, which offers the most relaxing effect on the nervous system.) Showers, though, offer a faff-free way to wash our hair – and/or get clean, fast. As summer approaches, too, an earlyevening shower can be a great freshener after getting home from work, before we turn right round again and head out the door to take advantage of the longer days, with a glass of something chilled in our hands, and maybe the aroma of a barbecue in the air. (Though if you’re looking to a shower to energise, always keep it on the cool side. Or, if you’re Liz Earle, take your showers completely cold, the virtues of which she explains in her bestselling wellbeing book, A Better Second Half – which I’ve been giving to ALL my female friends and relations, because it’s honestly that good.) Whether for bath or shower, though, I confess to a rather crowded bathroom shelf. Unlike skincare, with bath treats you can mix and match bathing products depending on your mood and/or how you want to smell – and I take full advantage of that. In fact, I often throw several products at once into the steaming waters, a tip I learned from my model friend Dayle Haddon, who likes to add a slurp of oil, a shake of salts and probably another slurp of something else entirely. And so long as you stick with a ‘mood theme’ – energising or relaxing – this ‘Magic Bath’ formula seems to work well. Meanwhile, if you were to do a ‘Through the Keyhole’ into my own watery sanctuary, here’s what you might find right now… Shower power Search on the Boots website and you’ll find 340+ different shower options. Yikes! That’s a lot of choices. And there are definitely some great accessibly-priced high street finds out there; my choices are almost invariably shaped by fragrance, and I love the ambery sensuality of Sanctuary Spa Signature Collection Shower Cream, £7.50 for 250ml, and always come over all nostalgic at the scent of Badedas 3 in 1 Revitalising Shower Gel, Shampoo & Conditioner, £2.55 for 200ml, with its herby, woodsy, whisksme-to-my-childhood scent. I’m also a fan of Pears Body Wash Lemon Flower, £2.90 for 250ml, which is a fresh spin on another much-loved scent, and Goodness Rose & Geranium Body Wash, £4.20 for 500ml – another ‘time travel’ aroma, that one, which whisks me straight back to my grandmother’s greenhouse. But if you’d like to pimp your shower experience, there are some truly fabulous and more luxurious options. (I’ll be blunt, though: if you share a bathroom, you might want to keep them under lock and key, because it can be truly heartbreaking to discover that your 14-year-old has used up your entire stash of Jo Malone in one long, gas-bill-accelerating shower.) Some current favourites of mine include just-launched Escentric Molecules Body Washes, £38 for 200ml each, which have been launched in five of this maverick perfume house’s cult fragrances: Escentric 01, 02, 03, 04 and 05 – the latter my chosen shower treat, which offers a warm, nuzzleable note of Cashmeran, contrasted against the freshness of bergamot, orange, rosemary, fig and pine resin. Recently unveiled, L’Occitane Almond Delicious Shower Cream, £17.50 for 200ml, really lives up to its ‘delicious’ name, with that much-loved, slightly marzipan-y fragrance, and a bunch of truly skincherishing ingredients – including shea butter – which honestly render the need for body lotion redundant, after you emerge from your drenching. Happy days: the aforementioned Jo Malone London now offer a wide range of their bestselling fragrances as luxe body washes, including Wood Sage & Sea Salt, Pomegranate Noir, Red Roses, and my all-time favourite, the sultrily sexy Velvet Rose & Oudh, £36 each for 250ml. If you REALLY want to go all-out posh, even Dior are now offering Liquid Hand & Body Soaps in their ultra-spiffy La Collection Privée – think: light, blossomy Sakura; transporting Jasmin des Anges, and sultry Ambre Nuit; there are nine fragrance options so far. (And you’ll definitely want to hide these, at £62 for 350ml.) But in fact, whatever your favourite eau de parfum or eau de toilette, you might want to revisit that range and check out their shower/body wash options, because many, many leading brands – including quite a few who’d previously discontinued their bodycare lines – are bringing them back, as so many of us seek to elevate our shower habits. 113 priceless-magazines.com
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