Spring showers, gluten-free deodorants, a lovely little bee balm, a Murad super-hydrator and Sonya Dakar’s take-a-year-off-your-face in 2 minutes flash face peel….here’s what made it into the bathroom this week:
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GREEN PEOPLE’s NEW Quinoa & Calendula Shower Gel.  I love the ingredients (spring water, coconut, orange flower water, hydrolised quinoa, galactoarabinan – LOVE this word, it makes me think of an Arabic prince from an outer galaxy but it’s actually larch tree extract –  aloe vera, marigold, lemon peel oil and more…) and it’s super fresh, hard to describe the scent, like a very gentle citrus but not really – stumped on this one! It’s for the face and body (avoid the eye area though) and it’s rather lovely! I need to do a lot more research on gluten-free beauty before I feel able to comment but if you like your beauty and bodycare products gluten-free, this one certainly is. So is Green People’s new potassium alum, quinoa, zinc, aloe and rosemary-based QUINOA & PROBIOTIC GLUTEN-FREE DEODORANT…no gluten in this either. I’ve been using this deodorant for a week, admittedly it hasn’t been tested on marathons or in Hong Kong on a high humidity day but it seems to do the job (I’m a bit skeptical about natural deodorants).
Next up: NutraSphere Flash Facial by SONYA DAKAR (the Problem Skin Specialists is her tagline). This woman knows her skincare! I was c...