Balance Me Beautiful Skin Kit

For the contents alone, we'd be lusting after this new Balance Me Beautiful Skin kit.

But the gorgeous gold bag kinda brings out our inner rap star - because (in a good way) we have been gold-diggers from way back.

As regular readers know, Balance Me - founded by sisters Rebecca and Claire Hopkins - is a favourite brand of ours, and this is either a fab way to discover the range in useful trial sizes, or (if you love it as much as we do) to get your hands on the range in a format that's travel-friendly.

Inside this, then, you'll find four treasures.  There's 100% Natural Radiance Face Oil with its unique blend of eight essential oils.  To soothe and brighten tired eyes, find Wonder Eye Cream.  Super Moisturising Body Wash is exactly what it says on the tin (er, bottle) - but the pièce de résistance is Super Moisturising Hand Cream, winner of an Anti-Ageing Beauty Bible Award, and one of the most fah-bu-lous hand-softeners ever.

Several times lately, Jo's been using it on public transport (like the good beauty editor she is, making the most of 'down-time'), and strangers have asked her what the glorious scent was.  And been surprised to discover:  it's a hand cream, not a perfume.

What we plan to do, then, is slip the travel sizes in our spongebags - and decant our make-up into bag itself.

Which doesn't just deserve a gold star:  it is a gold star.

UK readers find Balance Me Beautiful Skin Kit at www.balance.me.co.uk/£20 - buy here