Roll back the years and radiate

Renew your zest for life and youthful glow. Stephanie Smith checks out new energising and revitalising products.

The fabulous Liz Earle has launched her Energising Body Lotion within her Naturally Active Skincare range, a potent and invigorating blend of caffeine, gingko biloba, ivy, horse chestnut and butcher's broom, to boost circulation, and borage, wheatgerm and avocado oils to improve skin elasticity on arms, hips and thighs.

It smells divine too, with a heavenly scent of stimulating and uplifting pure essential oils including grapefruit, rosemary, eucalyptus, patchouli, pine, petitgrain and peppermint.

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It costs 4.75 for 30ml at the new Liz Earle shops in Victoria Quarter, Leeds, and John Lewis, Sheffield and on www.lizearle.com.

Also out this month is Simple Kind To Skin Vital Vitamin Foaming Cleanser, which gently removes impurities and traces of make-up leaving skin feeling cleansed, refreshed and nourished. It's made with the multi-vitamin goodness of Pro-Vitamin B5 to restore, soften and smooth skin, and Vitamin E to improve its condition. It also moisturises, with glycerin, chamomile and geranium to condition and regenerate. It costs from 4.49 and is available at chemists and supermarkets.

Voted one of the world's best miracle creams by the Green Beauty Bible, and using lady's mantle, which was prized by early alchemists for its alleged magical powers, skincare guru Kimia is reported to have fans including Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss and Geri Halliwell. Now the brand has developed an instant lifting, wrinkle-plumping facial system which includes its all-natural face oil and Hydra-activator, working together to leave skin youthful and glowing. It also contains clary sage oil and rosehip and helps to stimulate the rejuvenation of the skin cells, diminish wrinkles and provide a perfect primer for applying make-up. It costs 69 at www.kimia.co.uk.

The freezing winter weather and drying effects of central heating can all take their toll zapping your skin's natural moisture, leaving it feeling tight, dry, sensitive and chapped. Help is at hand from The Body Shop in the form of Hemp Moisture High Balm, with Community Fair Trade hemp seed oil and beeswax, a hugely versatile product that can be used on any area prone to dryness, such as elbows and knees. It comes in a handy-sized tin, costing 6 for 45ml.

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Titanic Spa, near Huddersfield, has a January Warmer 99 per person deal of a Simply Spa overnight stay any Monday to Thursday with free 55-minute Frangipani Body Wrap (usually costs 65). It also includes buffet lunch and evening meal, Heat and Ice Experience and swimming pool. Visit www.titanicspa.com or call 01484 843 544.