TRIED & TESTED

HYDRATING BODY CREAMS

CRABTREE & EVELYN ROSE SILKY BODY LOTION £22.50, crabtree-evelyn.co.uk/

THIS lotion has a gorgeous rose aroma. It really lingered and made skin smell nice all day.

It has vitamin E and left our skin feeling nice and silky, although not very effective on dry patches.

INDEEDLABS 10BALM BODY LOTION £24.99, boots.com

WITH a texture between a balm and a lotion, this has 10 moisturising ingredients and a faint and inoffensive vanilla scent.

You have to rub it in quite a lot, but the end result is sheeny and skin was super soft the next day.

GARNIER INTENSIVE 7 DAYS COCONUT MILK BODY LOTION £5.25, superdrug.com

THIS lotion had testers noting 38% less dryness after a week.

It is great for eczema-prone skin and stopped our arms from getting dry and patchy. We love the coconut smell too.

ALGENIST GENIUS LIQUID COLLAGEN MYLK £56, cultbeauty.co.uk

CRAZY expensive, but it’s a proper anti-ageing, resurfacing treatment.

Legs felt ridiculously silky from the first go. We hope with daily use we’ll have beach-ready pins by summer… if we can afford to go on hols after repeat-buying this.

HOLLAND & BARRETT ONLY GOOD THE NURTURER BODY LOTION £11.99, Holland & Barrett

THE pump dispenser is very handy if you are in a rush. It sank into skin nicely and didn’t leave an oily residue.

It had no particular smell to it and it did stop us getting dry skin on places like knees and elbows.

We also like the fact that the formula is made of all natural ingredients.