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    Coffee
    The best espresso machines to unleash your inner barista at home, tested

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    Spring treats
    Rainbow vases, vintage soap dishes and crystal bike bells: 15 colourful pick-me-ups to elevate your everyday

    Seek out joy in a turbulent world with these carefully chosen treats (they make great gifts, too)
  • Woman shopping in a secondhand marketplace in London.

    The filter newsletter
    Set alerts, use filters and buy less: everything I’ve learned about secondhand shopping

    This week: top tips for buying preloved; the best secateurs, tested; and genuinely great-smelling diffusers
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    Gardening
    The best secateurs to save you time and effort when pruning your garden, tested

  • A woman uses a jade gua sha

    Beauty
    The beauty treatments you can do at home – and the ones you really shouldn’t, according to the experts

  • Hot cross buns

    The food filter
    ‘Very pale and oddly wrinkly’: the best (and worst) supermarket hot cross buns for Easter, tested

  • A composite of pictures of a Nespresso Vertuo Plus, Sage Bambino Plus Coffee Machine and L'OR Barista Sublime on a pink, red and orange background

    Review
    The best coffee machines for your home: your morning brew made easy, according to our expert

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Fashion

  • A woman wearing a white dress with pink and orange flowers, and with a large bag over her shoulder

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    The perfect ‘new’ handbag? An old one

  • Two women unboxing a parcel of shoes at home

    How to buy secondhand clothes online that you’ll actually wear – and the best sites to trawl

  • A composite image of a woman in a blue dress; a black sweater with cherries on and a pair of brown suede loafers on a red and orange background

    Jess Cartner-Morley’s April style essentials: from sexy spring sweaters to the loafers that won the high street

  • A woman carrying a black overnight bag

    Birthstone rings, luxury loungewear and a genius overnight bag: what you loved most this month

Beauty

  • OPI’s Repair Mode Bond Building Nail Serum

    Sali Hughes on beauty
    I’ve never liked nail strengthener, but this one actually works

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    The beauty spot
    Berry products: 10 of the best

  • Studio portrait of woman applying cream on face

    Anti-ageing products that actually work: Sali Hughes on the 30 best serums, creams and treatments

  • A clear plastic travel bag with travel-sized toiletries spilling out on a pink background

    Small but mighty! The best travel-size toiletries for your next trip

Food

  • Easter chocolate 'eggs' in the shape of animals and a croissant and a sort of thick segmented disc. Easter April 5 The Food Filter.

    ‘Cute, but doesn’t taste too good’: the best (and worst) Easter chocolate treats, tested

  • tins of coconut milk

    ‘Reminds me of sun cream’: the best (and worst) supermarket coconut milk, tasted and rated

  • A selection of packaged vegan cheddar cheese; photo taken from above.

    ‘I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t feel particularly well afterwards’: the best (and worst) vegan cheese, tested

  • A composite of pictures of a golf ball, a monopoly board and a tin of baked beans all held up by illustrated hands, on an orange background

    The best personalised gift ideas for men, women and kids, from custom monopoly to baby rompers

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Home & garden

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    The best diffusers for your home: 22 genuinely great-smelling diffusers for every mood and budget

  • A selection of rice cookers in their boxes

    From no-show couriers to food banks: my quest to rehome everything we test on the Filter

  • Elevated view of a woman sitting on a patio in her garden potting plants in spring.

    How to get your garden ready for summer: 13 things you can do right now, according to the experts

  • A man on a walking treadmill in his living room

    The best walking pads and under-desk treadmills, tried and tested to turn your workday into a workout

Sleep

  • Testing the Panda Hybrid bamboo mattress

    The best mattresses: sleep better with our six rigorously tested picks

  • Otty Original Hybrid mattress

    Otty Original Hybrid mattress review: the best hybrid mattress you can buy – and also one of the cheapest

  • The Simba Hybrid Pro mattress, in an image showing its eight layers.

    Is the Simba Hybrid Pro mattress worth the hype? I slept on it for three months to find out

  • Woman falling backwards on to a bed

    How to choose a mattress: the features worth paying for – and the ones that aren’t

Gift ideas

  • Comp of pics of lego, an adidas trainer and a drawing tablet held by illustrated hands

    The best gifts for teens: 45 present ideas – chosen by teenagers themselves

  • Group of people at a dinner party

    ‘The classiest gift I’ve heard of’: what to bring to a dinner party (that isn’t wine or chocolates)

  • A composite of pictures of a golf ball, a monopoly board and a tin of baked beans all held up by illustrated hands, on an orange background

    The best personalised gift ideas for men, women and kids, from custom monopoly to baby rompers

  • A new Mother holds her daughter up close to her face

    The best gifts for new mums, picked by new mums: 25 genuinely useful ideas

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Lifestyle

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    The best online flower delivery services: seven favourites, freshly picked

  • Close up hand of female pulling white sheets in ecstasy , feeling and emotion concept

    From sex toy safety to supply chains: why testing vibrators isn’t as fun as you might think

  • Women knitting in yarn store

    Knitting is cool again. Here’s everything you need to get started – and what you don’t

  • Unsalted butter

    ‘It just wasn’t very buttery’: the best (and worst) unsalted butter, tasted and rated

Tech

  • A composite of five Apple iPhone 16 smartphones on a red, orange and pink background

    The best iPhones in 2025: which Apple smartphone is right for you, according to our expert

  • Apple iPad Air M3 review showing the home screen stood up on a table.

    Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat

  • Google Pixel 9a laying screen down on a wooden table showing its coloured back.

    Pixel 9a review: Google’s cut-price Android winner

  • Apple MacBook Air M4 review showing the lockscreen on a table.

    Apple MacBook Air M4 review: the laptop to beat, now cheaper

Wellness

  • A group of women practise pilates

    From resistance bands to squat-proof leggings: the pilates kit you need – and what you can do without

  • Full shot of an unrecognisable person pouring a freshly prepared cocktail mix into a crystal glass surrounded by various ingredients and out-of-focus lights

    From crew neck knits to alcohol-free ‘tequila’: what you loved most this month

  • Flipping a pancake in the pan

    Want to avoid forever chemicals? Here are nine of the best Pfas-free frying pans

  • Athlete climbing a rock wall in gym.

    Bouldering equipment for beginners: the gear you need to crush it at the climbing wall – and the stuff you don’t

The Filter newsletter

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    From no-show couriers to food banks: my quest to rehome everything we test on the Filter

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    From sex toy safety to supply chains: why testing vibrators isn’t as fun as you might think

  • Man pouring water from kettle into his bottle in the kitchen

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