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A Cracker of a skincare Christmas gift!
And they actually are served up in the shape of some pretty nifty looking Christmas Crackers!
And what’s more, neither of them will break the bank, thus making them perfect gifts for stocking fillers and for secret Santa, teenagers, teachers, family or friends.
You can even sign up for the brand's newsletter too and get 20% off your first order - making them even more affordable.
Natura Siberica
Face Glow Beauty Set
https://naturasiberica.co.uk/collections/gift-sets/products
£11.99
With Organic Altai Oblepikha Oil, a rich natural source of vitamin C. Suitable for all skin types.
Organic Altai oblepikha oil hydrates skin and promotes the formation of collagen, a structural protein essential for youthful skin. The super Siberian berry is the richest natural source of Vitamin C.
Certified VEGAN by the Vegan Society
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Cleansing Face Foaming Gel 75ml tube: This gel is perfect for everyday use! It gently cleanses the skin and gives you a feeling of freshness. Organic Altai oblepikha hydrolate promotes the improvement of the skin’s overall condition by boosting elasticity and hydration.
Vitamin C helps to enhance your skin's natural defence system, speeding up the skin's natural repair process. AHA Acids improve skin texture, tone and leave you with a brighter-looking complexion.
Antioxidant Face Serum 30ml with pipette: This face serum helps to improve skin’s appearance, gives a fresh complexion, and awakens skin's natural radiance.
Toning Light Face Cream-Fluid 30ml tube: This cream gives your skin energy for the whole day! It protects skin from external environmental influences, providing freshness and smoothness.
BLUEBERRY SIBERICA. Anti-Ox Face Beauty Set
https://naturasiberica.co.uk/collections/gift-sets/products
£11.99
With Organic Volcanic Wild Blueberry Hydrolate for all skin types. Wild volcanic blueberries, growing in the Taiga wild plains of Siberia, contain a huge amount of valuable antioxidants called anthocyanins. Anthocyanins accelerate skin renewal processes, improving skin tone and elasticity, restoring a healthy complexion.
Blueberries are naturally rich in beta carotene and B vitamins, which add radiance, leaving skin hydrated and smooth.
Certified VEGAN by the Vegan Society
Cream-to-Foam Face Cleanser 75ml tube: This creamy foam gently removes dirt and makeup from the skin, deeply moisturising, soothing and smoothing the complexion.
Super Hydrating Eye Patch-Effect Mask 30ml tube: This patch effect mask is super-hydrating for the undereye area. It restores skin tone and elasticity, refreshes, erases signs of fatigue and relieves swelling and dark circles.
Overnight Renew Face Cream-Mask 30ml tube: This mask is an overnight superhero, hard at work while you sleep! It helps smooth fine lines and even out skin tone to leave your face looking refreshed and radiant when you wake up.
Igloo Books announces new CoComelon licensing deal for Advent Calendars and more
The new deal sees the launch of a new CoComelon format added to their popular Storybook Advent Calendar range including the Disney Storybook Advent Calendar, Princess Storybook Advent Calendar, and Marvel Storybook Advent Calendar from Igloo Books.
Each Advent Calendar includes 24 brand-new story books to unwrap every day in the run-up to Christmas, featuring popular characters from the CoComelon franchise. Stockists are recommended to put their orders in now, as these are hotly anticipated to be good sellers.
CoComelon is part of the award-winning global entertainment company, Moonbug Entertainment which was founded in 2018 and has TV shows on over150 platforms worldwide.
CoComelon is one of their many popular titles which sees the main character JJ, joined by friends and family on adventures featuring catchy songs.
Paul Gregory, the CEO of Igloo Books said: “We're incredibly excited to partner with Moonbug and their fantastic brand, CoComelon.
"The brand is a firm favourite with children, and we hope our best-selling Advent Calendar format will see strong success and form the foundations of a long-running partnership with the brand.”
Katie Wilkinson, Head of Publishing at The Point.1888 said, “We’re thrilled to welcome Igloo Books to the ever-growing list of CoComelon licensees. This is a fantastic opportunity to create a new publishing offering to the millions of CoComelon fans in the run up to Christmas.”
The Comelon Story Book Advent Calendars are available now for major stockists to order by contacting the Igloo Publishing sales team at
customerservices@igloobooks.com or available for general release to consumers on 1st November 2022.
Expert shares Christmas-focused decluttering tips
As the company behind the clutter-clearing HIPPOBAGs, waste removal firm HIPPO joined up with TV star Dilly Carter earlier this year in a bid to encourage more of us to get decluttering and to do so in a way that’s kinder to our environment.
Organisation expert, author of Create Space and TV presenter, Dilly is the best ‘go to’ expert for those looking to transform their cluttered chaos into an organised oasis. And, as an eco-friendly, hassle-free alternative to the cumbersome metal skip, HIPPO’s HIPPOBAGs are just one of the resources that Dilly would recommends employing.
Dilly says: “Now is a great time to declutter ahead of Christmas before you start filling your home with more decorations, gifts and no doubt the odd house guests too! This is why I’m delighted to collaborate with HIPPO and their genius HIPPOBAGs in encouraging more of us to get decluttering! These are my Top Tips for clearing the clutter before guests come round:
1. Go through your crockery
Is your fine dining crockery kept separate from your everyday sets? Should you be using your fine dining sets more often, instead of it sitting there unused all year round?
Don't save the best for the best! Go through the plates and make sure all dining sets are together, matching styles and sizes. Even making sure a set is grouped together can change the aesthetic of your cupboard and help you distinguish what you can do without.
2. Sort your linen and towels
What is the linen cupboard and towel situation like in your home? When you have guests staying over, could they easily snag a towel to use? When did you last go through your towels? How long have you had them? How are your towel sets organised? Do you have too many or maybe you don't have enough? You can stash your sets inside a pillowcase belonging to that set so it’s easier to find. And try and separate them into baskets for single, double, king size, etc.
3. Borrow don’t buy new cutlery or furniture
So many of us buy items we use for one day that then take up space we don’t have. Only buy what you have room to comfortably store.
4. Organise Christmas decorations
If you shoved everything away last year then let’s organise our decorations this year so it’s a doddle when it comes to decorating our homes next year.
Buy storage boxes or use employ shoeboxes to separate different types of decorations. Label every box with a pen, labeller or just use white stickers. It’s always helpful to separate decorations by style or colour. The more we split our decorations the easier they are to find and use what we need or don’t each year. It also helps to wrap your lights around a hanger to keep them from getting tangled up. Make certain you use one hanger per set.
5. Get rid of your Christmas clutter
After Christmas Day, sort through the inevitable pile of rubbish by grouping items together according to how and where they can be safely disposed of.
Remember sticky tape, glossy wrapping paper and broken glass decorations can't be recycled, unlike Christmas trees or old toys and clothes that have now been replaced by a new gift.
If you don’t have the time or energy to work through your rubbish then HIPPOBAGs are a brilliant fix. These fully recyclable skip bags are a hassle-free, greener alternative to the metal skip. Once you’ve filled your bag, HIPPO will simply take it away, contact-free, and ensure over 95% of it is recycled for you, with the remainder disposed of safely and ethically.
Available to buy online at hippowaste.co.uk or through the HIPPO App, HIPPOBAG prices start at £13.99 for the MIDI Bag or £189.99 for the MIDI Bag with collection. These clever skip bags come in three handy flat-packed sizes so they don’t take up valuable space outside your home until you need to use them.
For more information, please give HIPPO a call on 0333 999 0 999 or visit hippowaste.co.uk.
Sea Shaken
Jesse Stevens is in a coma as a result of being pulled off a cliff by a psychopath who managed to escape from prison to track her down.
The psychopath was also injured in the fall and has gone into hiding. He is powered by an unreasoning rage and he wants to ensure that Jesse is dead. if she's still alive? He will kill her.
Onto the scene comes Military Intelligence Officer Sam Jones. Sam is officially considered as missing, presumed dead. He returns after two years in Afghanistan where he underwent brutal torture whilst he was in captivity.
Brutalised and struggling to cope with his life he really has little desire to continue living, or to return to his family life with his wife Sophie and his son, Marcus.
Sophie is obviously desperate to help Sam to recover and she leans very heavily on her friend and ex-forces veteran, Foxy for help and support.
Things are not good in Castleby. There have been a series of unexplained deaths among the elderly residents of the town and also of a local fisherman.
Police Inspector Steve Miller was working closely with the town's new local town GP, Kate Cooper. They are working to attempt to find out what the heck is happening in their town and to try to learn who is responsible.
Eventually Steve and Kate uncover a very nasty and very sinister and very shocking truth.
It is published by J. M. Simpson at £9.99 and is available from Amazon and Waterstones.
It will make a fantastic Christmas present for lovers of mystery novels.
Felix Unbound
Tiffany has a reputation for being tough, independent and spirited. She loses her temper with Anthony her boyfriend. Unfortunately she inadvertently topples a set of Egyptian figurines which had been part of an inheritance.
Now ancient forces are released and and they decide to wreak their mischievous revenge on her. How do they do this? They grant her wish that men were more like her loveable tabby cat, Felix.
Of course, it's all fun and games at first, as Tiffany and Felix joyfully launch Felix into her social circle. However, over time it becomes clear that Felix, loveable, charismatic Felix, is very capable of causing trouble.
Felix quickly obtains a reputation as a highly talented artist and as this happens Tiffany realises that her relationships are starting to change. Sometimes not for the better.
Tiffany realises that what has gotten into Felix is not actually new, and has appeared before in the history of her very interesting family.
But what role are Ozzy and Iris taking in the life of Felix and Tiffany? What are their motives? Can Tiffany rescue Felix from their grasp? Should she?
A new love interest seems to be on the horizon for Tiffany, as Felix seems to be deteriorating. What should she do? What will Felix do? Can his predatory, feline nature win through?
It's a unique novel and one which will make a superb Christmas gift for the lover of mysterious novels.
It's published by New Generation Publishing in hardback at £15.99. It's available through bookshops and online including Amazon.
Interestingly this is Cathy's first novel, her previous published books being non-fictional.
On Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service
As a teenager Michael's father pointed out that, because of his facility with languages, he should consider a career in the diplomatic corp.
And that was what happened. He was educated at Bedford School and Oxford's Magdalen College. After National Service as a young subaltern seeing service in the Malaysian jungles during the communist insurrection there.
He then attended what was known as the Foreign Office's 'Spy School' which was based in Shemlan, Lebanon, where he was taught the Arabic language.
His subsequent diplomatic career covered a wide range of very important postings not only in the Middle East but also throughout Europe.
This included serving in Berlin as the Minister and Head of the British Mission during the very crucial period that covered the collapse of the Berlin Wall and of the German Democratic Republic itself.
After that he was appointed as the British Ambassador to Prague in the Czech Republic.
After his retirement Sir Michael and his wife, Lady Henrietta have lived in both London and Sussex.
The book has received high praise from fellow diplomats and historians and it is illustrated with some very impressive photographs.
It is a very compelling account of the professional life of someone who was actually at the heart of the action. Including asides of what happens when tiredness overcomes one and mistakes are made converting Pounds to Lira (oops! gold topped taps?) and the issues raised during the reunification of Germany.
It's a stunningly good read and will make an ideal Christmas present for lovers of modern history and memoirs.
It is published by iB2 Media at £14.95.
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