Welcome to AWESOME APRIL! Don’t you just love this month? Spring is in full swing, lambs are filling the fields with joyful new life, the garden beds are abundant with late daffodils, forsythia and tulips and if you can find one, a bluebell wood is the place to have a beautiful fragrant wander. The clocks have changed so the evenings are full of light and of course we have a late Easter, a time for contemplation and reflection and of course, not a small amount of chocolate!

With this in mind, in TEMPLESPA during April we turn our attention to all things TRUFFLE, we call it “Trufflefest”. Fifteen years ago, to celebrate our tenth anniversary at the time (we’ve just celebrated our 25th in case you missed that!) we launched SKIN TRUFFLE and it has a lot more than just chocolate in it. Allow me to share the story.

It probably started with Harrods who challenged us to come up with a “Bentley” hero super-luxe product for which we could become really well known. It proved to be the best possible advice.

Around this time, Mark and I were with one of our product partners in Switzerland for one of our development meetings and they were asking how we were planning to celebrate this important milestone. I lightly mused “champagne, chocolates, maybe diamonds come to mind”! At which time the head of R&D, a professor of biochemistry got a good old fashioned flip chart up and we started to brainstorm all the associated components of celebration…truffles, strawberries, silk and so on. As we started to consider each, their powerful antioxidant, skin loving and radiance boosting benefits gave us the basis of a product was born.

Then the magic happened. I asked what was it that made you look great on a photo when you’re not posing but someone snaps a shot and you looked radiantly happy (a child’s first steps, a friends’ wedding speech, meeting someone you love at the airport and so on). It was explained that the release of endorphins, sometimes called the ‘happy molecules’ are released and this can in fact be imitated in an ingredient we could add that would also be released in the second phase of application. This trademarked ingredient is called HAPPYBELLE. Skin Truffle has been affectionately named ‘Happiness in a Jar’.

When we did launch in Harrods there was so much excitement, we were given all the side windows of the store (in conjunction with Swarovski) and we had a waiting list and couldn’t keep it stocked on the shelves.

SKIN TRUFFLE has now been joined by two other moisturisers - TRUFFLE NOIR that gives 24-hour rejuvenation so can be worn all day or just at night (also great for people with normal-combination skin) and TRUFFLE DE-LIGHT which has all the same lovely ingredients as Skin Truffle but a lighter, hydra-gel formula.

Finally for a real treat, Champagne & Truffles is also our best-selling facial in our spas (click here to find your local TEMPLESPA stockist). It is stunning.

So there you have it, the whole background to this amazing range, and for this month, we have an amazing offer.

I wish you a glorious month and send you love,

Liz xx