Telegraph Beauty : April 2012



Telegraph.co.uk Beauty : April 2012

Beauty Notebook: Naturally active body perfecters. Kate Shapland on naturally active body perfecters and the novelty of a bath mitt.

THE NEW DIRECTION NATURALLY ACTIVE BODY PERFECTERS.

Botanicals have always been part of the beauty apothecary, but better knowledge of the most powerful plant actives (like red vine extract, spirulina and the vasoconstrictor escine) – and ways to mix these for maximum potency – has given us a new generation of body-perfectors. So where once all we had at our disposal was body lotion and the odd exfoliator, now there is a raft of sophisticated topicals and oral supplements which live up to their promises, creating leaner, firmer limbs and more even-textured skin.

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