Madeleine Spencer

1 month ago | inkl.com | Madeleine Spencer

We trialled a different infrared sauna blanket each week, using them consecutively to get used to the different models over winter - (The Independent)Saunas can be incredibly relaxing, soothing sore muscles from excercise and injury. Although there has been little research to back up the claims, anecdotal evidence reports that saunas help to ease pain and minimise of inflammation. Infrared sauna blankets aim to do the same, offering a cheap, compact way to achieve all those benefits.

1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Madeleine Spencer

Lifestyle | BeautyCentral heating and a lack of vitamin D has made our skin grey and tired. Here’s how to repair all the damage that winter has done and refresh your skin for springThe emergence of all these extra hours of sunlight during spring mostly heralds good things — long evenings with friends, dipping your toes into the sea, finally consigning your duvet coat to the back of the wardrobe. The bad bit? The first time you see what winter has done to your complexion.

1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Madeleine Spencer

LifestyleIt’s fast becoming London’s favourite exercise, with studios popping up across the capital – but are they all safe? Madeleine Spencer finds out. “Get up on the box, and put the strap around your foot,” barks the instructor, imperiously. I do as I’m told, wobbling uncertainly as I try to maintain my balance atop the Reformer Pilates machine and the box that is elevating my body by another half metre or so. By the time my foot is in the strap, the situation feels perilous.

1 month ago | msn.com | Madeleine Spencer

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1 month ago | standard.co.uk | Madeleine Spencer

Lifestyle | WellnessEstelle Bingham’s holistic healing has built her a famous clientele which includes Fearne Cotton and Charlotte Tilbury, but what really happens in her sessions? Madeleine Spencer finds outI’m lying on the sofa in Estelle Bingham’s sitting room, slivers of sunlight reaching lazily through the white shutters, crystals are balanced on my chest and solar plexus. Estelle asks me to shut my eyes, and I know what’s coming next: a breathing exercise.