February 24, 2017

At the beginning of summer last year, I went on a beautiful yoga retreat with my mum. The yoga instructor gave us each a tub of homemade moisturizer and homemade sugar scrub. I'm telling you, this stuff was heaven! I've tried so many moisturizers over the years but never found one that works with my very dry and agitated skin. I have eczema on my eyes and rosacea on my cheeks, and struggle to find
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February 14, 2017

These eczema relief bath melts have been a lifesaver for me over the past year. I'm sure I'll write about this in more detail soon, but a couple of years ago I developed eczema out of the blue. I'm convincedĀ it was stress related, but I still haven't been able to shake it. It mostly effects my hands, the inside of my elbows, behind my knees and the top of my eyelids (lucky me). Over time, I've been
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Posted in Beauty, DIY, Vegan | Tagged eczema relief, eczema relief bath melts, homemade bath melts, homemade cosmetics |
January 24, 2017

There's nothing that can beat the simple luxury of a hot bubble bath, in my opinion. When the cold has seeped into your bones, you've had a long and stressful day, or you need some help drifting off to sleep, a bath is always the answer. I've been a huge fan of the Lush bath bomb range for a long time. I can't actually use bath bombs anymore - they irritate my sensitive skin - but James loves them
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Posted in Beauty, DIY, Vegan | Tagged bath bombs, DIY, lush, natural cosmetics |
January 11, 2014

As you may or may not know I've been a vegetarian for almost three years now. It's something I'm very committed to, and I try to only buy products which aren't harmful to animals (or people!) It's not until recently, though, that I've given much thought to my choice of cosmetics. I read blog posts by Chelsea and Libby which pointed out that some cosmetics are still tested on animals. Testing beauty
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Posted in Beauty | Tagged against animal testing, barry m, beauty, bunny friendly, cosmetics, cruelty free, eco tools, emotional brilliance, lush, make-up, models own, review, soap and glory, the body shop, the natural collection, urban decay, wet 'n wild, zoya |