A typical scene from a Skincare awards judging session – our new awards co-ordinator, Kirsty Mawhinney of Skin Insight, and Sarah Stacey of the Beauty Bible comparing notes on a product while Lorraine Dallmeier of Formula Botanica peers dubiously at her hand which has just had …
Environmental Issues
Low allergen garden wins gold at Chelsea Flower Show
What a coup!! You see those round little yellow tickets saying OPALS? They are there to tell you, on a scale of 1 – 10, how badly that flower and its pollen will affect you if you have hay fever or allergic asthma. And they are all over the gold-winning Birmingham City Council …
Harvesting seaweed in County Sligo
Just off Streedagh beach looking onto Donegal Bay – the most amazing collection of edible seaweeds: sugar kelp, dulse, sea spaghetti, pepper dulse, carrageenan, sea lettuce, velvet horn, bladderwrack, alaria and a very pretty pink seaweed (erect coralline) which is also pure …
What do you know about ultra sound scans?….
Well, not a lot, to be honest. Like most people I have never really thought about them, despite their very wide use for diagnostic purposes in adults and in babies in the womb. But Jim West believes that we are very unwise to believe that just because ultrasound is so widely …
Random reading…
Why can't we put down our smart phones? A former Google product manager, Tristram Harris, dishes the dirt on how smart phones are specifically designed be habit forming. He compares smartphones to 'slot machines' because, he says, “Every time I check my phone, I’m playing …