It’s the season we spend nine months waiting for.
Longer golden days, leaving the house without a jacket, drinks, BBQs and festivals filling up the weekend: summer is when the country unfurls and relaxes as one.
With so much going on, a calendar packed full of activities will eventually catch up with you, leaving you feeling and looking sub-optimal. Summer is no fun if you’re spending half the week succumbing to a hangover.
Luckily, there are lots of helpful products and purchases to get you back in the game. Whether you’re looking for something to revive skin that’s been through one too many late nights or hoping to boost your vitamin intake in ways beyond your diet, we’ve rounded up the best health, beauty and wellness buys to help you make the most of the sunshine season.
Best of all, many of them come with discounts and reductions (especially for newbies), meaning you can save on the usual RRP.
Sound good? Let’s dive in.
Best for: extra nutrients
AG1
A healthy diet can only take you so far. Supplements are a great way to get additional vitamins and minerals, helping to support your body inside and out. The trouble is figuring out what to take, when to take it, and how much of it to take.
Enter AG1, a science-driven solution that supports physical health and mental performance with just one all-in-one supplement. The formula helps improve heart health, boosts energy and focus levels and gives your immune system a helping hand too. Forget buying, counting and organising a medley of pills; you just need one AG1 scoop a day and you’re ready to take on the world.
Join today to get a free AG1 starter kit worth £49, including an AG1 pouch, AG1 shaker, AG1 storage container, and five AG1 travel packs, useful when you’re on the move. There’s also free delivery.
Best for: hacking healthy eating
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Prep Kitchen
Healthy eating is easier than bloggers make it look. While online, meals come together in a 30 second clip, real life, sadly, isn’t quite as streamlined. Luckily there is a hack for getting great food on your plate without any kitchen chaos to clean up afterwards.
Online meal prep delivery service Prep Kitchen makes perfectly balanced macro-controlled dishes bursting with flavour at affordable prices. The brand is adored by fitness fans and star athletes alike: Olympian Katarina Johnson-Thomson and former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall are Prep Kitchen’s brand ambassadors. Are you ready to join this elite tribe?
Now’s the perfect time to sign up as Prep Kitchen is currently offering a three-week discount deal. Apply the code WELCOME301510 to get 30 per cent off your first week, followed by 15 per cent off your second week and 10 per cent off your third week.
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Christy
Wimbledon may be over but Christys is still serving premium towels and bed linen in style. The brand is running a summer sale until July 25, reducing selected lines by up to 50 per cent off certain products meaning now’s the time to make your move on everything from duvet sets and towels to bedding sets.
But that’s not all: From July 26 to 31, there will be further reductions in an event titled the Henry Christy Birthday Sale.
Psst! ES Best readers can get a further 10 per cent off with the exclusive discount code: IND10. Love all.
Lumin Mr. Bright Eyes Bundle
Best for: masking late nights
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Lumin
A diary full of parties and social events can take its toll, and one of the first places to show are your eyes – or more specifically, the dark circles lurking under them. What you need is a first-aid kit for tired peepers, and Lumin has just the prescription.
The beauty brand’s Mr. Bright Eyes Bundle (£67.50) includes brand bestsellers like Dark Circle Defense (a fast-working cream that works on wrinkles and fine lines as well as dark circles) and Instant Dark Circle Corrector (a tinted formula to mask dark circles), all working to bring that twinkle back to your eye.
Buying the bundle is 15 per cent cheaper than purchasing the products individually, meaning you won’t just have a fresher complexion, but more money in your pocket too.
Parabens, sulfates, phthalates, and animal testing free.
L’OCCITANE’s Beauty Icons
Best for: turning back time
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L’OCCITANE’s
L’OCCITANE has been harnessing Provence’s plant power since 1976. The beauty brand is behind some of the best products on the market, propelling them to cult status. If you’re new to the brand, allow us to make introductions to L’OCCITANE’s icons.
There’s the nourishing and softening Shea Butter Hand Cream, offering eight hours of hydration to dry hands. It sinks in quickly and leaves skin feeling silky and soft.
L’OCCITANE’s Almond Shower Oil offers a drop of in-shower luxury, cleansing skin and leaving it feeling and looking nourished with a faint trace of heavenly almond scent lingering on skin.
In skincare, the ultra-hydrating Overnight Reset Serum contains 3,000+ golden bubbles of immortelle essential oil to revive tired skin overnight.
Rounding up the foursome is the bestselling, multi-award-winning Immortelle Divine Cream. The cashmere-like formula is a powerhouse, correcting and preventing fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation leaving skin with a glow that defies the ageing process.
Best for: ditching a costly coffee shop addiction
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Grind
Is your coffee shop habit making a noticeable dent in your finances? It’s time to bring barista-level brews home, and your first port of call should be Grind. The coffee connoisseurs offer home-compostable coffee pods, as well as whole bean and ground subscriptions so you’ll always have a decent cup within arm’s reach.
New customers stand to win the most with 24% off first orders. For your money, you’ll get 60 pods every six weeks (working out to 32p per pod – take that, cost of living crisis!) plus a free Grind Tin to keep them safe. Delivery is included and you can skip, pause or cancel at any time, making it a commitment-free perk you’ll soon come to wonder how you lived without.
And if you want a trial run, you don’t have to subscribe: you can make a one-time purchase of this speciality coffee from the Grind website.
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JSHealth
The leading health and wellness brand is offering not one but two deals to get you smiling from the inside out.
The first is 15% off its Hair + Energy Formula (usually £36.99) when you subscribe, which harnesses Iodine and Zinc to give hair, skin, nails and energy levels a turbo charge. Each bottle contains 60 capsules, equating to a two-month supply, a decent time period during which you should see results.
Next up – You can save 15% when you subscribe to a month’s supply of the AM+ formula (usually £24.99) which boosts immunity, energy and performance, meaning it’s a wise pick for anyone on the festival circuit. Simply take one in the morning (the clue is in the name), and let it work its magic – you’ll soon be ready and roaring to take on the day.
Best for: eating fresher and better
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Abel & Cole
Trying to eat better? After a long day, the last thing any of us want to do is traipse around a supermarket picking through plastic-shrouded fruit and veg. Have the farmers market come to your door thanks to Abel & Cole.
The company offers high-quality organic Fruit & Veg Boxes, delivering a medley to you when you want – including sustainable household staples like baked goods, drinks and pantry essentials. Start eating with the seasons and getting great quality goods – because life’s too short to spend arguing with an automated checkout.
Subscriptions can be skipped or cancelled at any time. New customers can bag 50% off the first and fourth organic Fruit & Veg Box order.
This guide is sponsored by featured brands.