TRIED & TESTED | Delo Water-Boosting Caps

I KNOW everyone's supposed to go mental over the Harrod's Food Hall, but, for me, it's the Selfridges Food Hall that makes me get a little spend-crazy. It's bursting with edible treasures, arranges in walls of vibrant colors and wrapping. Rows of diaphanous merengues abutt beautiful cakes and pastel rounds of chocolate across from exotic coral slabs of sushi-grade salmon. Bottles of viscous, amber Karo syrup rub shoulders with pots of glowing English mustard. In the mix, between Yo Sushi and the bakery you'll find the modern, minimal, bright and tiny boxes housing Delo Water-Boosting Caps.

Inside each is a mix of plant concentrates and extracts. Screw it onto the mouth of your water bottle (French half-litre is what they're made for) and the seal breaks, releasing the extracts into l'eau. Extracts include Ginseng, Acerola, Guarana, Ginger, Galagal, Cardamom, Carrot, Rosehip, Mallow, Hawthorn, Orange Blossom, Yerba Mate, Green Tea, Mango, Kiwi, Lychee, Bitter Orange, Walnut and Calamint.

Energy, Sexy, Slim, Sun and De-Stress are the options. I've used and like both the Energy and De-Stress on a regular basis since their launch at the Colette Water Bar in 2007.

If you're looking for the benefits of herbal tea or supplments on the run, this might be the thing for you. Plus, it's hard not to be a sucker for their pretty packaging, like a moth to the fire...

Delo Water-Boosting Caps

WWD reports: Kerastase in pill form

Interesting... Kerastase has launched a pill called Densitive to help those suffering from thinning hair and hair loss. WWD says, 'Densitive is designed to be taken twice a day with meals and is the first product in the luxury hair care brand's dietary supplement range.' I actually thought there was already something on the market for that: Rogaine (rumour has it that people also Rogaine their eyebrows to grow them in thicker after years of overplucking). That said, I suppose female baldness is a problem that more than one company can try to corner the market on.

And, really, it's not as if slathering whatever cream/serum/salve/conditioner/mask on the outside is going to transform your appearance if the inner-workings are being neglected.

My one concern (other than for you and your baldness, which cannot be a fun experience and one I don't look forward to if it ever happens to me) is that this is a pill you're taking, NOT a topical cream. Whereas you rub cream into a specific area to regrow said hair (or grow thicker hair... I'm not sure, so don't quote me on it) in that one area a pill gets into your entire system. Does taking a pill rather than slathering on a cream just make you a bit hairier everywhere, like the way cats grow a winter coat of fur? And I don't think it's some sort of 'smart pill' that pinpoints exactly where regrowth is needed, growing hair there and nowhere else, can it?

Hell, they can't even make bombs that do that correctly yet. It all seems a bit strange and while I do like the idea of beauty companies addressing that superficial treatments won't do the trick alone.