The Mind and Body Refresh Competition

Wanting to look and feel your best in time for Summer is nothing new. In many ways, the big summer upgrade many try to achieve every year can be a lot of fun, if perhaps a little overwhelming when it comes to figuring out where to start. Nonetheless, with the sun shining, the pub gardens calling, and a busy social calendar to stick to, Summer is the perfect time to upgrade your personal grooming game and shake off the last of the bleak Winter air. As always, we are here to help you with that.

We at Gentleman’s Journal are excited to be bringing back our grooming competition just in time for the seasons changing. Whether you’re after a rejuvenating trip to Milan, a relaxing massage, a luxurious haircut and wet shave at one of London’s top barbers, or maybe a new skincare set to perfect your complexion - this competition has everything you need to be the best version of yourself.

Experience a rejuvenating two-night stay for two in a Deluxe Garden Room at Portrait Milano, one of Milan’s most elegant luxury hotels. The prize includes daily access to The Longevity Spa, an innovative wellness destination combining advanced biohacking technology with holistic therapies. Guests can enjoy the Cryosuite Total Body and Ultimate Biohacking treatments, alongside use of the pool, sauna, steam room and relaxation areas. The stay also features the award-winning Full Portrait Breakfast each morning and 24/7 access to the hotel’s cutting-edge fitness facilities.

Housed within the restored former Archiepiscopal Seminary in the heart of Milan’s fashion district, Portrait Milano is the flagship hotel of the Ferragamo family-owned Lungarno Collection and a member of Leading Hotels of the World. With 73 beautifully designed rooms and suites, the hotel blends historic architecture with contemporary Italian style. As home to the world’s first Longevity Spa, Portrait Milano offers a distinctive combination of luxury hospitality, wellness innovation and authentic Milanese charm.

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Feel restored and rebalanced this season at Yatra Spa in central London - the luxury Mayfair Spa that is offering our winner their signature Gentleman’s Recharge Experience. This 90-minute full-body treatment has been expertly designed to restore energy through promoting real relaxation for even the busiest of city-dwellers. The treatment begins with a deep tissue massage and is followed by a targeted scalp massage to help you truly clear your mind. After your treatment, you’ll be invited to enjoy the full spa facilities to complete your relaxing experience.

Inspired by the ancient principle of Ayurveda, Yātrā Spa stands an oasis of calm amidst the bustling hubbub of central London. Offering traditional spa treatments, but supplementing these with deeply immersive sensory experiences, this spa is truly one of London’s gems. A seamless blend of traditional Ayurvedic treatments and contemporary results-driven techniques - you’ll be sure to leave Yātrā feeling the best you’ve felt all year.

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Iconic British fragrance house Creed has, for over 260 years, defined the art of fine perfumery with a heritage rooted in Mayfair tailoring before evolving into one of the world’s most distinguished niche fragrance houses. Founded by James Henry Creed in the same year as King George III’s accession, the house has long been associated with craftsmanship, refinement and enduring sophistication. Its creations balance tradition with modernity, producing scents that are both timeless and distinctly expressive.

At the heart of its collection is Aventus: a bold, confident composition that opens with bright Calabrian bergamot and Sicilian lemon, unfolds into a signature pineapple accord and pink pepper heart, before settling into a powerful base of smoky birch, patchouli and musk. Now, Creed is offering this month’s winner the chance to experience Aventus, a fragrance defined by clarity, strength and an unmistakably lasting impression.

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For this year’s grooming competition, Cellmen have generously offered our winner a collection of innovative products, to really take your skincare to the next level. Your new routine will include an intensive revitalising cellular cream, designed with the needs of men’s skin in mind and rich in proteins, peptides, collagen, enzymes, and amino acids - what a cocktail! You’ll also receive a wrinkle-smoothing eye serum to target puffiness featuring the signature CytoPep™ Cellular Extracts, and finally, the Cellmen Wash n’ Shave: a purifying cleanser which doubles as an ultra-light shaving cream.

Cellmen, the premium men’s range from Swiss cellular skincare brand Cellcosmet, offers some of the most cutting-edge formulations on the market right now. Leveraging cellular science, products feature skin-regenerating proteins, peptides, and postbiotics which all serve to enhance cellular energy, renew the skin and support your natural skin barrier.

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Experience a full grooming reset service at Ruffians - tailored, precise, and built around you. Your barber will carry out a thorough consultation before delivering a refreshing hair wash, a bespoke cut, and a styled finish to suit your lifestyle. Followed by a traditional wet shave experience, done properly. Begin with a skin consultation, followed by a facial scrub and hot towel to prepare the skin. Enjoy a two-pass shave for a close, smooth result, finished with a cold towel. Finish with complimentary drinks and expert advice on how to maintain your look at home, including a bespoke product selection hand-picked by your barber.

With 3 locations across London and their original barbershop in Edinburgh, Ruffians seamlessly blends all the quality and trust you expect from a traditional barbershop, with the innovative and effortlessly cool energy of a company modern enough to thrive in a city like London. Not only is the team chock-full of masters of their craft, but every location is fully stocked with the brand’s impressive supply of products both for your hair and your beard - to keep you looking your best at all times.

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One of our favourite skincare brands here at the Gentleman’s Journal, Sebagh is generously offering a premium facial at their new residency in Harrod’s. This facial is the real deal - hugely popular with your favourite celebrities, with only a few slots open every month, and, most crucially, with visible results after only one session - this is one you’ll want to try for yourself.

The Signature Facial delivers a refined skin reset in a single, expertly tailored session. Deep cleansing and precise exfoliation prepare the complexion for potent formulations, while targeted masks restore luminosity. The signature lifting and lymphatic massage tones and sculpts, complemented by bespoke serums that hydrate and firm. Leave your facial looking brighter and feeling fantastic.

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JAB is offering our winner a 10-class pass to their SW1 boxing club. This club specialises in two types of classes: Boxing and Train. A boxing class will take you through 12 rounds in 50 minutes, and is designed to improve your endurance and technique - you’ll leave feeling like a regular Rocky. Train is a 50 minute functional training session, in order to improve your strength and conditioning so you can look and feel like an athlete.

JAB Boxing Club is reinventing the way we train. Built to be a complete ecosystem designed to help you train, recover, and live like an athlete, it brings together expert coaching which makes high-performance training accessible to everyone. Stylishly decorated with nods to the golden years of boxing, a midcentury-modern feel to the whole building makes this the kind of space you’re excited to go back to over and over again.

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Contemporary grooming brand The Grey Men's Skincare is offering a streamlined upgrade to both your skincare and supplement routine, combining its Ultimate Glow Set with the Daily Vitamin Intake System. Together, they deliver a considered approach to modern grooming — one that works both topically and from within. The glow-enhancing set is perfect for the man who wants that signature summer look, without the risk of sunburns or the unsightly peeling skin. Face-scrub, a tanning serum, and SPF50 will ensure your skin looks summer ready, even if you’ve spent most of the season inside. Alongside it, the The Grey Men's Daily Intake System introduces a targeted supplement regime, formulated to support skin quality and overall wellbeing from the inside out.

Built around efficiency and ease, The Grey champions a no-fuss philosophy: multifunctional products, clean formulations and visible results — ideal for those looking to elevate their daily regimen with minimal complication.

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Developed alongside experts in dermatology and hair science, Scandinavian Biolabs’ Bio-Pilixin formulas are designed to reduce shedding, support hair density and improve scalp health through a straightforward, non-invasive daily routine.Founded in 2020 after co-founder Niels Konradi experienced early-stage hair loss himself, the brand was created to offer an alternative to the industry’s often clinical and fear-driven solutions.

London’s most iconic pharmacy John Bell & Croyden is offering our winner the chance to experience the complete Scandinavian Biolabs range for themselves. Featuring the brand’s bestselling hair growth and scalp care essentials, this comprehensive collection is designed to support stronger, healthier-looking hair while bringing a science-led approach to modern grooming.

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Icelandic skincare pioneer BIOEFFECT is offering a results-driven edit designed to elevate your daily routine, featuring its cult-favourite EGF Day Serum, EGF Eye Serum, Hydrating Cream and Volcanic Exfoliator. Together, this quartet works to hydrate, refine and visibly rejuvenate the skin, combining lightweight textures with impressive clinical performance.

Rooted in cutting-edge biotechnology, BIOEFFECT is best known for its use of barley-derived EGF, or for the laymen among us, Epidermal Growth Factor. This is a protein that supports the skin’s natural renewal process. Developed and produced in Iceland, the brand pairs scientific innovation with remarkable purity: delivering formulas that are both minimal and highly effective, ideal for those seeking straightforward, high-performance skincare.

bioeffect.com/uk

Luxury London hair salon Gielly Green is offering our winner its signature “One System” - a high-performance and streamlined haircare ritual designed by experts to dull the noise of overcomplicated haircare trends, and provide our winner with a seriously transformative routine. Containing a core trio of the essentials - One Shampoo, One Conditioner, One Mask - and paired with leave-in Boosters, Gielly Green promises to meet 80% of all your haircare needs with precision and ease.

Founded in 2008 by Shai and Karin Greenberg, a singular mission is at the heart of this salon’s ethos: to streamline the needlessly complex routine surrounding haircare. Diversity has always been an integral part of how this company operates - decades of working with every hair type imaginable has truly informed their signature formula. Gielly Green distills two decades of salon insight into a system that is intuitive, luxurious, and transformative.

giellygreen.co.uk

Skincare brand Grown Alchemist is offering over £240 worth of products to fully upgrade your skincare and bodycare routine. This includes their very best-selling Gentle Gel Facial Cleanser and the Polishing Exfoliator, alongside their “Skin Renewal” trio consisting of a mask, serum, and day cream. Finally, a 500ml energizing body cleanser - to fully complete your grooming ritual.

Keen readers of GJ will already know all about the high-performance Australian skincare brand ‘Grown Alchemist’. Founded nearly twenty years ago with the aim of minimising the impacts of modern living on your skin, Grown Alchemist has been helping people of all skin types achieve their results. Working with your skin’s natural biology is this brand’s MO - between the advanced biotech ingredients and the natural plant extracts, all active ingredients absorb better and results are more noticeable.

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A husband and wife led company born in 2004 in Bondi Beach, Patrick’s has redefined what it means to be a beauty industry start-up. Setting the standard of quality and then promptly smashing it themselves, this brand has created some of the most effective products to combat men’s hair loss and skin concerns, winning awards across the board.

Patrick’s is offering our winner a skin/body/haircare bundle (the works!) that is as luxurious as it is cutting-edge in its science. With a high-performance, aluminium-free formula that uses actives like Niodor to neutralise odour and improve sweat control - Patrick’s natural deodorant performs like nothing else. Finish your hair routine with their matte thickening hair powder, which adds volume and hold whilst supporting scalp health and reducing hair loss.

patricksproducts.co.uk

Natural skincare authority Dr. Jackson's is offering a complete “Summer Grooming Essentials” collection - a curated edit of high-performance skincare designed to hydrate, restore and protect throughout the warmer months. Rooted in the healing power of botanical ingredients, Dr. Jackson’s combines scientific expertise with plant-based formulations inspired by traditional remedies from around the world, creating products that are both purposeful and effortlessly refined.

The prize includes the deeply nourishing 02 Night Cream, multitasking 03 Everyday Oil, which can be used on the face, body, and even as a beard oil, a revitalising Face and Eye Essence, firming Body Toning Essence and the sulphate-free face wash. Together, the collection delivers a complete head-to-toe grooming ritual: cleansing, hydrating and restoring skin with lightweight yet hardworking formulas suited to daily use, post-workout recovery, and summer travel alike.

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