How much: pounds 28

How much: pounds 28.48BORGHESE FANGOPenny Chorlton says that a face pack of this brownish-grey goo is "like a gentle sandpaper It gets rid of all the awfulness. Just make sure to use it when you're alone." However ridiculous you look with this slapped all over your mug, it really does clean deeply, and can annihilate all your blackheads in one go. But it can sting uncomfortably for the first few minutes after application.Where: at major department stores.How much: pounds 30.50 for 500g & sponge.49SUPERDRUG VITAMIN E EXFOLIATING BODY SCRUBA thick cream invested with little crushed bits of apricot kernel, this is, according to Annalisa Barbieri, "just about the best body scrub. Really invigorating and ridiculously well priced." Contains a natural source of vitamin E and wheatgerm oil as moisturisers. Just be careful to get it all out of your bellybutton before you leave the bath.Where: at Superdrug.How much: pounds 1.19.50NIZORAL ANTI DANDRUFF SHAMPOOPenny Chorlton rates this shampoo, with the active ingredient ketoconazole, higher than other products of its type. "A lot of dandruff shampoos do more harm than good," she says, "but this is much more gentle. I tend to get a flaky scalp in winter, but this that seems to take care of it.

It also doesn't have a lasting smell."Where: only at pharmacists'.How much: pounds 5.75 for 60ml.. "DEAR SUE Arnold, I am hoping to raise money for a worthy cause - the Stoke Poges Living Arts Trust - by pushing a barrel-organ (with live monkey) from Basingstoke to Budapest this summer. It promises to be an exciting project which will put SPLAT well and truly on the cultural map. So far we have been promised support by a number of local organisations, including The Stoke Poges Ladies Only Society of Herbalists, Stoke Poges Army Museum and Stoke Poges United Distilleries, who have very generously agreed to provide SPLASH, SPAM and SPUD back-up vehicles containing food, bedding and first aid respectively.

I am nevertheless hoping to extend my appeal to a wider audience, which is why I have taken the liberty of writing to you..." At least that one wasn't asking for money, only publicity. Most of the begging letters I get, and I've had a spate of them over the past two weeks, include half a dozen sponsor sheets and the unsolicited information that some individuals have given them up to pounds 250. To do what? A variety of intrepid things such as walking along the Great Wall of China to raise money for the British Heart Foundation, running across the Sahara for the Royal National Institute for the Blind Talking Books Appeal, and scaling the heights of Machupicchu in Peru for something undoubtedly worthy, but totally forgettable as far as I am concerned because it included Mariella Frostrup as one of its celebrity tour leaders.This seems to be the latest fashion in charity sponsorship, inspired I have no doubt by Comic Relief, which raised extra millions this year when they spotlighted famous people like Stephen Fry and Geri Halliwell doing good deeds in the Third World. Thus, instead of cycling from Clapham Common to Dorking along with 2,000 other anonymous well-meaning folk, as I once did to raise money for the London Lighthouse Appeal, you get a bunch of celebrities cycling along with you, followed, and this is the crucial part, by TV cameras and newspaper reporters who will convert an otherwise non-newsworthy story into a page-one splash.Break a couple of minor royals into the mixture and your celebrity cake will double in size. I know a well-heeled Austrian with connections who does nothing but organise glittering international charity events where, for between pounds 5,000 and pounds 10,000, you can rub shoulders with impoverished maharajas at fund-raising cricket matches in Jaipur, or shoot bear in Siberia with claimants to the Romanov throne. (Did you know that the descendants of all the deposed monarchs of Europe have their own society? They have regular dinners in a backroom of the Pizza Express (they're all broke) and plan what they are going to do when they are back on their thrones.)Don't misunderstand me I've nothing against sponsored charities. If it weren't for their annual sponsored cycle ride from London to Brighton, heaven knows how the British Heart Foundation would pay for its equipment. On the other hand, from a sponsor's point of view, forking out for someone to fly to Beijing on what is basically a packaged holiday with optional excursions isn't quite the same thing, especially as I happen to know the individual who wrote to me isn't short of a bob and could probably afford to buy the BHF a cardiograph all by herself.