beauty
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How To Build A Beauty Routine Around The Concerns You Actually Have
Look inside a typical bathroom cabinet. Bottles of peeling solutions sit next to half-empty vitamin C serums. Jars of heavy night creams collect dust. Why do so many people buy products they never actually use? The answer is simple. People shop for the skin they wish they had. They buy for a fantasy. Reality is much different. Building a routine around genuine concerns requires brutal honesty. It means looking in the mirror and deciding what actually bothers you right now. Is it chronic dryness? Hormonal breakouts? Sun damage from a beach trip three years ago? Stop buying solutions for problems that don’t exist on your face. Diagnose the Real Problems…
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Loving The New Fenjal
When it comes to bath and pampering products, Fenjal is what I would class as a heritage brand. It was founded in 1962 in Switzerland, when the founders of the company looked at the treatments found in Switzerland’s most celebrated spas and asked why those experiences couldn’t be enjoyed at home. By 1967, fenjal had arrived in British bathrooms. It hasn’t left since. I can remember my mom loving this brand when I was younger, and the original scent was unique, iconic and totally unmistakable. I loved it then and loved it now. It smelt like luxury and glamour, something to be aspired too. Today But beauty innovative doesn’t stand…
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Reviewed: Collagen Peptides Protein From Naked Nutrition
Menopause, and peri-menopause rate up there as the worst time in a woman’s life. The physical changes to the body are debilitating, and are matched by the changes we suddenly have to cope with due to changes in our appearance. I’m currently in the peri-menopause, and have found my skin is as oily and spotty as your average teenager, my hair, never the thickness, is now as thin as it has ever been, and my nails are brittle and just break so easily. I am definitely at the stage where nature needs a helping hand. Naked Nutrition Collagen When Naked Nutrition asked if I would be interested in trying some…
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A Gentler Approach To Everyday Skincare
Skincare can sometimes feel more complicated than it needs to be. Between long ingredient lists, viral beauty trends and products promising overnight transformation, it is easy to forget that for many of us, what our skin really needs is consistency, comfort and a little more care. This is especially true when life is busy. Whether you are juggling work, family, hormones, the school run, social plans or simply trying to find five minutes for yourself, skincare often has to fit into real life. It needs to be practical, pleasant to use and supportive of how your skin actually feels day to day. That is where a more traditional, herbal approach…
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The Rise Of Conscious Beauty Shopping And What It Means For Consumers
A few years ago, I tossed a bottle of shampoo into my cart without thinking twice. Cheap, cheerful, smelled like coconuts. That was the extent of my decision making. Now I find myself standing in the aisle flipping bottles over like a detective reading clues. Ingredients. Cruelty claims. Recyclability. It’s funny how habits change. Conscious beauty shopping didn’t explode overnight. It crept in slowly. Friends started talking about ingredients. Social media exposed questionable brand practices. Then suddenly everyone was asking the same question: what exactly are we putting on our skin? I noticed the shift most when I went looking for new hair treatment products last winter. My hair had…
