OK, I know Babington House is not in Wales but this place is so special it’s worth a bit of a schlep. And, in all honesty, if you live in the south this outpost of London’s über-trendy private members’ club Soho House, the commute to Somerset is negligible. Once there, any travel sickness dissolves away in the sheer mad luxury of it all. A stunning Georgian country house history-steeped, inside this high-end hotel the rooms have Bond villain technie knobs on with bathrooms begging for a style mag spread. As you’d expect, its spa is suitably gob-gapingly impressive. Named after the quirky product range initially piloted there, Cowshed is home to a super souped-up gym, sauna, steam room and the pièce de résistance indoor and outdoor heated pools circled by seven lakeside cabins offering massages, facials, aromatherapy, reflexology and waxing. Class in a James Bond Martini glass.
www.babingtonhouse.co.uk

His’n’Hers
When the BBC’s much-respected Horizon science strand discovered through a series of stringent tests that Boots No7’s Protect & Perfect Serum For Women had a measurable effect on ironing out wrinkles, it sent Britain’s female population into a frenzy with queues snaking round the block and tubes eBayed for 50 quid-plus. Unsurprisingly in the increasingly competitive grooming market, No7 have capitalised on this skyrocket success and launched a men’s counterpart (30ml, £16.75.) Silky and easily absorbed, this anti-ager promises youth in a bottle in just four weeks by using a similar – but not the same as men’s skins are thicker, natch – blend of ingredients as the female version that includes the vitamin A derivative pro-retinol, but minus the bank-breaking price-tag.

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