Food to enjoy, skincare to try, places to visit and things to experience – In focus is a quick round-up of everything the focus team loved recently.
Melora Manuka Honey & Oil Double Action Hand Wash
The New Zealand Mānuka Group has brought out the beautiful Melora™ range and, with all the necessary handwashing going on, we’re amped to use their beautiful Mānuka Honey & Oil Double Hand Wash. With antibacterial properties from Mānuka Honey and Mānuka Oil, this liquid soap in an easy pump bottle, keeps your hands clean from bacteria but doesn’t strip all the natural oils from your skin. It does leave a slightly antiseptic smell on your hands but it’s certainly not overpowering or unpleasant.
The hand wash also contains Vulgare (Barley) Leaf and Wheat Leaf Extract which condition and smooth the skin. There’s also Lactic Acid – an Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA) which gently exfoliates the skin and reduces the appearance of premature aging – and Citric Acid which balances skin acidity and promotes gentle skin regrowth. The Mulberry Extract – often used in Chinese medicine – visibly lightens age spots and evens out the skin tone but we’ll probably have to continue using this for a few more weeks before we see these results.
The Melora range includes a moisturiser, body lotion and mouthwash, all of which contain the natural powers of New Zealand’s native Mānuka tree.
Ozark
Ok, I know I’m really late to the party as I only recently started watching Ozark. I certainly had seen the title on the Netflix suggestion list but the name didn’t grab me – it was only when my mum suggested I watch it that I dived right in. It turns out that the Ozarks are a place in America’s mid-west and it’s where Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) and their two kids head after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong. It’s here that Marty, a financial planner, gets involved in numerous businesses to try and launder money to save his family from a drug cartel. It’s intriguing and surprising.
If money-laundering, drug cartels and spicy humour is your cup of tea, you might also like ‘Good Girls’ – one of the 10 best shows of the last few years according to focus editors.
The Book Charmer, Karen Hawkins
Need to escape reality for at least one night? Welcome to the Dove Pond – a quirky little fictional town, where Sara Dove, who can talk to books, and Grace Wheeler, who is amazing at saving big companies from bankruptcy, are about to throw the best ever Apple Festival.
This is the kind of book we all need when life seems to be falling apart – it’s kind, heartwarming and very reassuring. Everyone here is friendly, talented and fierce. Perfection!
Once you finish the last page, you’ll know that with a little faith and determination, everything is going to be fine.
Here by the way, are 8 more kind and positive books to escape reality.
