25 Feb 2024
  ‘14 out of 16 ingredients in sunscreen are not safe' So admits the FDA. We are inundated with this relentless media mantra: ‘Don’t forget your sunscreen! Summer. Winter....
20 Jan 2024
cold water shower
We often tout the benefits of a cold shower, cold water. Years ago I wrote about the cold in   ‘Go Cold so no Cold’.  It’s winter. It’s flu season.  It’s time to remember cold can...
04 Jan 2024
Shake hands with a gardener, a mechanic, a landscaper and you may feel a roughness of their hard work. Admirable.  But perhaps, for them, uncomfortable at times. The answer might...
12 Dec 2023
Raw honey or fake honey? A good question. Raw is good. Fake is not. Chances are, even if you buy a honey that says honey, pure honey, looks like honey, tastes like honey and the...
26 Nov 2023
In 1918, Proctor and Gamble introduced the first liquid Ivory soap to the market.  The above ad reads… Ivory Soap cleans the hair and scalp thoroughly. Its copious lasting lather...
08 Nov 2023
You like to be clean.  You need to be moisturized. The tone part is the icing on the cake. The cosmetic counter specialists offer mega information. The day cream, the night cream...
01 Nov 2023
When I was a little girl and busy playing chef in the kitchen, my mom used to let me stuff the clove buds into the scored back rind of the ham. The ham itself scared me a bit, but...
09 Oct 2023
He entered the shop, looked around and shrugged.  “My scalp needs help.”  he sighed.  ‘Got anything for psoriasis?” “Possibly.” I smiled. “People do love our clean and pure skin...
02 Oct 2023
Falling off his skateboard was not a fun ride, nor was limping the block home. Jas didn’t cry on the way back, but when he saw his mom, the tears flowed. She hugged him, propped...
19 Sep 2023
Remember the shampoo you found hiding in the back of the bathroom cupboard, a gift from a boyfriend you wanted to forget?  Well, times change and memories fade and it’s been over...

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