Posts in category Health and Beauty

Most people are energised by their exercise regime, are they not? You see these fit people who go to the gym every other day, showing off their glowing, taut skin, as they zip around, full of beans. And you can see in their bright, alert eyes, that they are energised; ready for anything life throws at them. So why does my exercise regime leave me aching all over and feeling like I can’t move for three days? You can see in my tired, barely open eyes that I can’t cope with anything life throws at me and I just want …

With increasing pressures at work and at home, it is easy to find yourself feeling stressed out and feeling frazzled; with the weight of the world on your shoulders. In actual fact, that feeling of stress is your body preparing yourself to run away from or fight a threat – a response that served our distant ancestors very well. These days however, the stress response can be activated for less immediate dangers, and more long term worries. The trouble with this though, is that the stress response is designed to be short term. Your body is diverting all its energies away …

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On top of the money and time we spend on our beauty regimen every single day, there are also those designated weekends when we go full out on the beautifying procedures with masks, treatments and so on. Those weekends, however, have a couple of significant downsides – spending even more money on beauty products and treating your face to a chemical concoction that could cause allergic reactions, irritation, etc. Why not save yourself the cons and go only for the pros by simply making the masks yourself!?

Some of us do admit it, while others are very reluctant – the fact that beauty products consume large portions of our budget on a monthly basis. We buy shower gels and shampoos, creams and lotions, masks and treatments, foundations, lipsticks, mascaras and so much more in an effort to look better and feel better about out appearance. But the good quality beauty products can be quite costly while the cheaper ones can actually do more harm than good. So how do we lower out beauty budgets without resorting to lesser quality cosmetics?

The beauty industry seem to have us right where they want us. They know our weakness. They publish pictures of stunning, airbrushed women with flawless skin next to their little bottle of miracles that claims to transform your skin – and your life, providing you part with a week’s worth of wages in exchange. So we do. Yes please, give me some snail slime. I won’t be able to afford to eat for the month, but I will have extraordinary skin. Who needs food when you have great skin?

With Christmas already knocking on our doors, gift-shopping is becoming more and more important. As we try to figure out what to get for our friends and family, the thought of fragrances often comes up – it is a classic choice as a perfume is both practical, personal, beautiful and whatever other attributes you want to give it. But how does one choose a fragrance for someone else? How do you buy a perfume your special lady will love? Here are some guidelines:

Let me start by saying a huge thank you to everyone who entered our Stoptober competition during October 2013. We had a great response to it, so hopefully there are plenty of you out there that are well on the way to stopping smoking for good.

People are finally beginning to really understand the damage they are doing themselves by continuing to smoke, and an estimated 365,000 people are expected to try to kick the habit this October. This is mainly due to the great NHS campaign, Stoptober, which gives people the incentive to quit and the support that they need. Another reason why more and more people are able to make this brave attempt, is thanks to the invention of the e-cigarette, which has been around for longer than many might think.