beauty
You just spent the price of a short holiday on a bottle of Louis Vuitton Symphony or Tom Ford Rose Prick, and no sooner do you spray some on, but the scent is already fading. Perfume doesn't come cheap, so it pays to know how to make sure each of the those pricey droplets lasts. There are numerous tips on TikTok, Instagram and elsewhere for perfume - and one is that you can use a dab of Vaseline to prevent fragrances from evaporating too quickly. This trick truly works. Apply a thin layer of Vaseline or other odourless body lotion to your wrists and neck. Then spray on your fragrance. That lay...
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Microplastics are a source of poisons that can potentially enter a human body through sweat, according to scientists based in Britain, who warned of "potential adverse effects" such as endocrine disruption and cancer. Sweat appears to leach toxic brominated flame retardants from microplastics, making them "potentially available to be absorbed through skin," a University of Birmingham team has found, after carrying out experiments using "common forms of plastic" which were tested with synthetic sweat made in a laboratory. The tests showed the effect to be made worse by antiperspirants and found...
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One of the most popular social media beauty hacks, "face taping" has people applying strips of tape to areas of their face to reduce wrinkles overnight. Many use kinesiology tape like the kind used by physiotherapists to treat muscle pain for example, sticking stripes of it to their forehead or cheeks and treating themselves to a supposed mini facelift. Sounds too good to be true? That's because it is, says German dermatologist Uta Schlossberger. According to her, face taping doesn't work: "On the contrary. It has more of a damaging effect." The idea behind face taping sounds simple enough: Th...
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Wholesome, nature-infused labels on shampoos, shower gel and creams might make you think you're doing a meaningful thing for the environment, but don't be taken in by appearances. Inviting images don't necessarily mean a genuine commitment to good ecology, and may simply play on associations to steer a product into your shopping basket. "It's very popular to advertise on cosmetics packaging with images of plants and leaves, flowers and fruit," says Kerstin Effers, environmental and health protection officer at the consumer advice centre in the German city of Dusseldorf. According to Effers, yo...
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