Oh, the weather outside is frightful

Women’s magazines keep giving us new beauty tips on how to look less chilly and windblown in the winter, but they don’t often tell us how to look after our cars during these festive months.

When it’s frosty outside, your car can suffer just as much as you can. While you worry about a runny nose and getting a cough, or whatever horrible bug is going round, your car may suffer from salt!

Salt, which is put onto the roads to try to prevent ice-related road traffic accidents, can unfortunately cause the finish of your car to become damaged.

Leaving salt on your car, especially in wintry conditions, promotes rust – which is never good news for vehicles.

No need to spend money going to the carwash though, there is a product you might be using on yourself which your car will benefit from equally - baby shampoo.

Yes, it’s true, just two little squeezes of plain baby shampoo into some lukewarm water, rubbed gently over your car with a soft washing glove, will return your car to its shiny, pre-salted glory.

Something to remember though: only give your car this little pampering treatment when it’s above one degree centigrade outside, otherwise the water you use on your car might freeze onto its surface.