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Q I’M exhausted. Work has been so busy recently and I think it’s really starting to show on my face. I look tired all the time. Can you recommend a treatment that will help clear my mind? A many beauty treatments are more like workouts these days, so I was secretly quite pleased to come across an old-fashioned deeprelaxing one recently.

I’m not going to promise Clarins Beauty Sleep Wellness Treatment (£70 for 1 hour 25 minutes) will re-set your sleep patterns or cure chronic stress, but it is really well thought out, taking it far beyond the usual gentle-massage-and-whalemusic combo. For starters, you lie on a ‘waterbed’ mattress topper which kind of makes you feel as though you’re floating.

The oil they use is Clarins’s venerable Relax Body Treatment Oil, which contains geranium, camomile and basil and really does dampen anxiety the moment you sniff it.

The stuff is massaged into the body for a good hour in a constant, rhythmic figure-ofeight movement called ‘lemniskate’; again, it mimics gentle waves and it actually works — I fell asleep both times I had the massage.

your face gets the lemniskate treatment as well (albeit with a different oil), and as a result, you’ll emerge looking a lot less wired and tense.

In a world full of lasers, needles and pummelling machinery, it’s nice to be reminded of the benefits of some gentle touch.

Ingeborg van LotrIngen is beauty director at Cosmopolitan magazine. email your questions to her at inge@dailymail.co.uk.

I wish I didn’t look so tired all the time!