[Anya]

Another option is classic curves – the Veronica series is very impressive. Veronica 5 is the latest and it’s great. For smoothing things out, a body briefer (for example Rago 9357 in the Secrets in Lace website that Lisa has mentioned) will do the trick. Best wishes, Tanya

[Anya]

I can relate to Lucie’s advice, particularly wetting yourself in the shower, turning off the water and then applying body wash/ body scrub.

More recently, I have come to realise that the key ingredient is the physical process of exfoliation, which is best done with exfoliating gloves. Nowadays, I simply use the exfoliating gloves with soap (lots of it).

Exfoliating gloves, which can be bought from any chemist, are very abrasive, however a gentle massage of all your skin for 2 -3 minutes, which creates a fine foam from the soap takes off virtually all dead skin cells leaving your skin very clean and smooth.

When I sense that I may be getting a few hair pores clogged, as a matter of urgency I will pour a desert spoon of salt into my gloved hand and then gently rub that all over with soap for a minute or two.

Then wash off and let the skin dry – the skin can get very itchy for 10 – 15 minutes as it drys out, but this really opens up the pores in a useful way. The itch is stopped in its tracks by rubbing in moisturiser or sorbeline cream (I understand that sorbeline is the key ingredient in moisturisers, and it’s relatively cheap). Besides, it’s best to moisturise all over after exfoliating this way.