In the lifestyle team, we test new products every month. Read here what particularly impressed our editors.
Our Lifestyle team has tested interesting products and events from the areas of fitness, health and lifestyle, evaluated according to benefits, handling and effects. In July, the GALA editors will present five exciting tests to you. Among other things: delicious summer ice cream, a refreshing drink for the evening or the perfect to-go companion for on the go.
Ice cold revelation Colleague Lara loves ice cream – can this also score with her? ©PR
Product: Ferrero Rocher Triple Experience Ice Cream
Price: 3.99 for three pieces
Promise: Delicious hazelnut ice cream meets chocolate with pieces of hazelnut and fine caramel – more is not possible!
Application: Unpack and let’s go!
Conclusion: The ice cream is a stunner and there are only delicious components in every bite: creamy, nutty ice cream, good chocolate with crunchy nuts, sweet caramel. Perfect dessert, not only in summer. The only downside: it’s not that big and if you can’t stop, you’ve got a problem…
Enjoy music – protect your ears On the morning after the concert, editor Lena is happy that she can still understand the TV at a normal room volume. ©PR
Product: Senner MusicPro earplugs
Price: 22.95 euros
To use: Enjoy concerts and stand in front – without ringing ears.
Application: Take the earplugs out of the transport case, put them in your ears, adjust them and off you go into the fray.
Conclusion: I’ve gone through many concerts without earplugs – and many nights in clubs that I don’t want to go back to. In the meantime, I prefer to wear the Senner MusicPro at events with high volume, because without it, my ears quickly hurt on the spot. Although I’ve been using them for a while, I’ve never really gotten used to the feel in my ears and often have to fiddle with them before I get the best feel for the sound – but I recommend everyone to get hearing protection for concerts or whatever get loud street parties.
Talking is MUCH easier in a noisy environment as they filter out background noise. And thanks to them I still enjoy front row concerts, enjoying the bass rushing through my body and hearing everything clearly in my ear – and on the drive home afterwards I can hear normally and have no tinnitus. And yes: there is a difference at a concert, but my hearing is my priority. One of my best investments.
Goat-like refreshment Colleague Anke thinks it’s a mix that doesn’t need to be changed anymore. ©PR
Product: Mountain’s Goat Alpen Tonic Cannabis + Lemon Balm
Price: 1.99 euros per 250 ml
To use: Delicate regional refreshment.
Application: Open the chilled can and enjoy pure or on ice. Or mix as you like.
Conclusion: A tonic without quinine, but with herbs and cannabis terpenes (without THC) and significantly less sugar than other tonics – I’m curious. The list of ingredients is short: bitter alpine herbs from the region – wormwood, mugwort, stickroot and rue – water, sugar, carbon dioxide and acidifier. And said cannabis terpenes, which are supposed to give the tonic its very special taste.
I’m testing the tonic pure and I’m thrilled. It’s super delicious, as tart as tonic should be and I love it and not so sweet. There’s really no reason to mix anything else; but you can! And the recipes that come with it – with and without alcohol – sound so tempting that I’ll definitely try them out.
And what does GOAT mean now? The fun-loving mountain goats live in the mountain region from which the bitter alpine herbs come. Actually logical.
Stylish companion for every day Editor Jenny is happy when her elderberry spritzer stays ice cold for a long time in the summer. ©PR
Product:Stainless steel insulating mug CUP 500ml from FLSK
Price: 47.75 euros
To use: The insulating mug keeps drinks to-go hot or refreshingly cold for a long time.
Application: Simply fill in your favorite drink of the day – whether hot coffee, cold elderberry spritzer or Iced Matcha Latte – close with a click, done. Ice cubes even fit in for hot summer days.
Conclusion: This is really a convenient to-go mug. The lid can be screwed on very easily and, above all, without any problems – without it sitting crookedly and leaking as a result. I found the click closure very useful. It’s completely closed. And when you flip it open to drink, it snaps into place on the other side of the cup without folding back onto its nose. Good sized stylish mug.
prime time Editor Julia is convinced of the new IQOS Iluma Prime. ©PR
Product: IQOS Iluma Prime
Price: 129 euros
To use: Tobacco enjoyment without smoke and without stench
Application: Put Heats in the holder, wait for it to vibrate and then enjoy.
Conclusion: I’ve been using the tobacco heaters for a long time. So far, the predecessor IQOS 3 DUO has accompanied me and it has now been replaced by the Iluma Prime. The difference: the new model works withSmartcore Induction, whereby the tobacco is no longer heated by a heating rod, but by induction. So no tobacco residues get stuck in the device and it does not have to be cleaned. In addition, the new one also got a new look and looks even smarter than its predecessor. Even if smoking is fundamentally unhealthy and the tobacco heater still contains pollutants, this is still 95 percent less (according to the manufacturer) than with a conventional cigarette, in which tobacco is burned instead of heated. For me personally, a good alternative without the smell of cigarettes, which also bothers others, and smelly clothes and hands. The only downside: If you smoke two heats in a row very quickly, the holder can get pretty hot.