Beauty: Best pick-me-up products to start the day

Fancy feeling top of the morning to greet the day? Lisa Millard picks the products that wake you up before you go

Skandinavisk Fjord Carved from Glaciers Scandanavian Body Wash, £18, John Lewis, Grand Arcade, Cambridge and skandinavisk.com

Transform your morning shower into a Scandi spa experience of crashing waterfalls, cascading forests, abundant orchards and icy fjords. This cleansing and moisturising vegan body wash comes in a recyclable bioplastic tube and scents the body with apple and pear blossom, orchard fruits and redcurrants.

Spa Retreat Hydrating Vitamin E Body Oil, £25, The White Company, Grand Arcade, Cambridge and thewhitecomany.com

Spritz your post-shower body with this blend of seven high-quality natural oils, including avocado oil and antioxidant-rich vitamin E, and breathe deeply. The pink pepper, petitgrain, lavender and cedarwood will warm your cockles, calm your mind and ease you gently into a winter-weary day.

Farm Girl by Sarah Jane Icy Globes, £44.99, farmgirlbysarahjane.co.uk

These are just brilliant. I used them every early morning while working away at a conference, awaking with the lark bleary and puffy eyes. Having rested in the fridge overnight, the (award-winning) globes keep cold enough to administer a stimulating wake-up work out – use with a facial oil or serum for best effect. Also fabulous for muscle aches, sunburn and hangovers.

This Works Morning Expert Open Eyes, £30, SpaceNK, Trinity Street, Cambridge, Boots and thisworks.com

A metal oval-shaped tip glides around the eye area to smooth the botanical-extract-packed serum over delicate skin. Puffiness is reduced as are dark circles while skin is nourished, hydrated and tightened and eyes left feeling wide awake in the morning after the night before.

Bjork & Berries Blueberry Blue Tansy Restoring Face Oil, £57, gb.bjorkandberries.com

Skin needs extra nourishment during winter’s mix of cold weather outside and central heating inside. A good facial oil is a wonder and massaging this skin-restoring potion of Swedish organic blueberry seed oil helps protect, calm and strengthens the skin. Excellent for upset skin too, the ecoluxury skincare brand is vegan, natural and organic.

Inlight Under Eye Revive, £61, Pure Source, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge and puresourceonline.com

The under-eye area is often the hardest hit come morning with tell-take signs of puffiness, creases and shadow. Inlight was founded by a doctor, clinical herbalist and homeopath and the slow-beauty products are nature-based and effective. This concentrated eye balm helps to decongest and reduce puffiness and brighten skin to banish eye fatigue.

Neom Great Day Magnesium Body Butter, £36, neomorganics.com

A fresh and zesty fragrance to work its wellbeing wonders on a morning lacking light and loveliness. Blended with magnesium, shea butter, aloe vera, mango seed and coconut oil, the body butter will nourish and soften skin while giving you a morning mood boost to get up and go.

Clarins Eau Dynamisante Spray, £39, Boots and clarins.co.uk

An absolute classic (launched in 1987) but still hard to beat, the spitz-all-over spray combines plant power and perfume to create an immediately uplifting fragrance. Essential oils of lemon, patchouli, petit grain, ginseng and white tea are irresistible and will put a spring in your step whatever the weather.