THERE’S some MONK-ey business going on at St Augustine’s Abbey in Ramsgate, where the brothers have turned their hand to making cosmetics.

Since the monks launched their internet shop last week, news of the holy hand cream has spread far and wide with scores of orders flooding in.

Go to www.ramsgatebenedictines.com to order

develop the business as a return to the Benedictine philosophy of self-sufficiency.

"I made them to look like apples and I could even make them looking like a pint of Guinness but it wasn’t until Brother Dunstan developed his beekeeping and extracted his first batch of honey,

a friend who suggested the beeswax would make good lip balm.

invested in some essential oils and from that the flavours were born – lemon, orange, peppermint