As beauty products go, fragrance is often one of the most expensive, packaged and advertised as the ultimate luxury, with ads that inevitably involve a yacht, the Orient Express, a… Read more DIY fragrance: Can you make a cooling spritzer better than one you can buy? →
Gwyneth Paltrow recently complained that the ageing process makes her feel like she’s losing her identity. It’s hard to feel sorry for Gwynnie, when it seems that she’s been making a mint out… Read more Put on your happy face: Is this the cure for our worry lines? →
It’s not that time again – yet. New Year’s Eve is still a long way off. But for this week’s wellness hack, I’d like to propose something that we generally tend to think… Read more Dear Diary: Could keeping a journal be the key to wellness? →
To be human is to be a problem for the planet. We all know that by now. We consume too much. We travel too much. We simply are too much for poor old Mother… Read more Can curing our shopping addiction help cure the planet? →
The sun is out in the United Kingdom. Well, it is out as I write. By the time you read this, the sun will probably be back in again and we… Read more Is it any wonder we Brits strip off at the first sight of sun? →
To paraphrase the late great Nora Ephron, lately I’ve been feeling bad about my neck. And my jawline. And the deep horizontal grooves on my forehead, which I blame on… Read more Is gua sha really better than Botox? →
A rainy Monday afternoon in June and I’m up to my knees in an MRImachine having my broken foot scanned. The kind, young radiologist offers me earplugs or headphones. I… Read more Why meditation isn’t all it’s cracked up to be →
Facebook ads. Ordinarily a source of great annoyance. Sometimes a source of great amusement. Like the time they suggested I might want to take up netball on the very same… Read more Have beauty fads finally gone too far? →