The top beauty trends to watch in 2009 have been revealed by SpaFinder.

The list combines beauty concepts and products from the spa world and is compiled yearly by SpaFinder Lifestyle Online Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Melisse Gelula.

Top of the list is multi-tasking, money-saving products, combining three or four beauty uses, such as cleansing, toning and scrubbing.

This is followed by a predicted rise in brand-name facialists, such as Kate Somerville from Los Angeles, US, who are becoming ‘franchise-facialists’ with treatments at spas beside their own. A boom in skincare lines from facialists such as Eve Lom and Tammy Fender are also forecast.

There will be a rise in antioxidants and gemstone extracts in products and Gelula also forecasts that hammams will be the ‘hot’ spa experience to have.

An increase in green beauty marketing will take place this year, there will be a continued interest in science-based products and a rise in sud-free shampoos, without the ingredient sodium laurel sulfate (SFS), or traditional foaming agents. Details: spafinder.com