This month we’re giving away a natural beauty item from Australian eco-friendly beauty brand, Blessed By Nature. Email subscribers will go into the draw to win a 20ml Blessed By Nature Wild Harvest Organic Rosehip Oil bottle. According to the brand, rosehip oil is filled with antioxidants, essential fatty acids and vitamins that helps restore skin health....
Abuja, Nigeria: The cosmetic, beauty and skincare market is worth $400 billion globally. Traditionally, it is dominated by cosmetic and pharmaceutical giants who devote billions of dollars annually to the formation of new products, and mostly synthetic-chemical laden new products. Thus, it has always been difficult for small companies to enter the picture. However, with the rise...
With science under threat, particularly in the U.S. where a growing number of people are rejecting scientific findings on climate change issues, it’s time we turn the spotlight on those on the front lines, to help you understand the work that scientists do and why they play an instrumental role in helping to build a...
It’s not a new approach to beauty; we have always known you get out what you put in. We have, however, become increasingly aware of how our body reacts to food and that beauty is more than skin deep, it can start in your gut! So what better way to nourish your body’s biggest organ...
We know that the products you use on your body are just as important as what you put in your body, with a booming industry we’ve pulled together the green beauty brands to keep an eye on, and perhaps make the switch to, this year. Christophe Robin Parisian hair colourist to the stars Christophe Robin...
With today’s marketing lingo, it can be really confusing to work out what products are genuinely eco-friendly. It’s a topic that continually stumps me, and I often get it completely wrong. I’m not expecting my shampoo to suck up greenhouse gases, I just don’t want to add any further harm to the environment. Last year, I decided...
*Disclaimer: I have absolutely no affiliation with any of the products mentioned. As a pale English girl living in Australia, I feel qualified to give advice to others on fake tan. I am regularly compared to the colour of a jelly-fish and so naturally I’ve experimented with fake tan since my teenage years. Over the...
Stealing ingredients from the pantry for your skin, hey if it’s good enough for eco-babe Isabelle Cornish then we’ll give it a try. Extra Virgin Olive Oil is used in most natural home remedies, a completely pure form of olive oil meaning it is full of all the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that benefit our...
Abuja, Nigeria: When I decided to write this article on shea butter at the urging of my editor, it was with some curiosity. I have known about shea butter my entire life, I have used it quite a bit. But the truth is, I didn’t know much about shea butter; how it’s made, where it comes...
When it comes to your beauty regime, what you put on your skin is just as important as what you feed your body. So it makes sense to nourish the skin with naturally-inspired skincare products. Here is the lowdown on some cool new products from The Body Shop’s range of cruelty-free and vegan skincare Firstly,...
Cosmetic and beauty products are evolving. They are healthier, more natural, less toxic… and vegan. Many widely-available cosmetic products contain dead animal ingredients in their formula. These includes ingredients such as insect extracts, the uric acid of cows, and beeswax, among others. Vegan beauty and cosmetic products on the other hand are free from animal...
It’s hard to find eco-friendly replacements for common (but toxic) beauty products, particularly at the very beginning when you’re trying to make better sustainable lifestyle choices and trying to work out which is the most relevant ‘eco’ option. One product that women find especially difficult to replace with a better alternative is perfume, as women...