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Body brushing
I’m becoming evangelical about dry body brushing. After years of seeing models and celebrities strip to their smalls on shoots, I can testify that all the ones with little or no cellulite recommend body brushing (the Big Breakfast presenter Amanda Byram is also a recent convert). Elemis and the Body Shop both do body brushes; use long, gentle sweeping strokes from the feet upwards, over the abdomen, then along the arms, and down from the shoulders to the chest, always moving in the direction of the heart. It stimulates the lymph system, which aids the elimination of toxins, and it boosts blood flow, aids circulation and removes dead skin cells to reveal the smoother, firmer surface beneath. It takes only two minutes a day, but it’s the fastest, cheapest, most effective body treatment around.

If you can’t spare an extra two minutes to body brush in the mornings, a good scrub keeps that holiday feeling alive — close your eyes and think of sand on your legs. But don’t be tempted to moisturise a tan to make it last — nothing looks less attractive than scaly skin clinging on by the sheer force of heavy-duty body lotions. Better to scrub and go paler but have smooth, glowing legs.

The author is the beauty director at Instyle magazine

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