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Introducing Novel Beauty for Men and Women
Novel Beauty is all about naturally clever skincare. This is a luxury concept brand of skincare for men and women who believe the body is a book that can be read. Novel Beauty offers a distinctive range of bodycare products, housed in beautifully tactile and refillable books. These books are designed to be replenished with generous jars, Refill Chapters, made of powerful and heady natural ingredients and pure essential oils. Novel Beauty links the mind and body through the skin.
Founder Nneka Fleming says, “we are interested in the ways personal care affects us all, from the role it plays in how we start our day and the way we feel about ourselves, to the effects it has on our skin and the environment. We are creating skincare and beauty products with this in mind. “Novel Beauty wants to be part of a culture that thinks about the ordinary differently. We promise to empower beauty from the inside out. We use highquality natural ingredients that enhance your skin, not hide your story. To look beneath the surface is at the heart of our products, our brand, our designs and our ingredients. We create unisex natural skincare products that make this connection in our daily lives. “We incorporate naturally effective essential oils and skin care products prepared with specially selected natural active ingredients that are compatible with the skin to work in unison with the skin’s natural composition.
A “ book never looks out of place. Books don’t clash. The form offers simplicity in an often-complicated space.” “Invigorating, uplifting and soothing high-quality oils are incorporated into each special formulation. These therapeutic plant extracts contain natural antioxidants, moisturizing essential fatty acids, and anti-inflammatory properties. “This blend helps to enhance and moisturise your skin while restoring and boosting the skin’s natural balance and radiance leaving your skin revitalised and hydrated. Our essential oils stimulate the mind and can help uplift, relax and revive you. “Our products do not contain any animal bi-product, parabens, sodium laurel sulphate, artificial colours or chemicals. All our jars are made from recyclable material. All our refill chapters are made in the UK.” Launching this October exclusively on www. novelskincare.co.uk with three products that are sure to inspire its users to release their story:
feelings that pass through the mind daily. It is a sensuously aromatic blend, which polishes and conditions the skin with the dark earthiness of raw cane sugar and Shea butter, whilst also playing on your senses with papaya fruit and grape seed oil, and Platonic Dialogue, a daylight cream that inspires you to find yourself through your own reasoning with an abundance of vitamins from Aloe Vera, seaweed, sesame, apricot and geranium rose oil. Travel Stories – £45, 2 x 100ml Imaginary Voyage, an enriched raw sea salt scrub that reminds you a voyage of discovery, starts within your mind. This natural exfoliant helps balance the skin, improve hydration, and strengthen the protective barrier of the skin with minerals. Ginger root oil also warms the system and tangerine oil relieves your mind. And Irony, a deeply moisturising Shea butter which suggests what appears on the surface, to be the case, can differ radically from what is actually the case. This is a rich moisturiser which repairs and regenerates your skin with Shea butter, rosehip, avocado and sweet almond oil. Novel Beauty also presents Autobiography, a ceramic & marbled cork candleholder book, handmade by RCA award-winning ceramic artist Solomia Zoumaras in Shoreditch, East London. Made from Parian ware, a type of bisque porcelain similar to marble & finished with a bisque tone marbled cork cover which is beautifully fastened with two black copper hinges. Each book includes two hand poured scented travel candles made from soy and vegetable wax, and an essential oil blend. Each candle has two natural fibre wicks giving a clean & even burn for up to 16 hours each. Choose from: • La Vie en Rose – a fruit and floral scent • Precious Woods – a warming earthy fragrance
Kathryn Rivans 07788 272 009 www.novelskincare.co.uk press@novelskincare.co.uk
Poor Man’s Rose – £43, 2 x 100ml The perfect gift for the rich of heart. It includes the chapters Stream of Consciousness - a raw sugar scrub for the one thousand and one thoughts and
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