Tell us a little about your background and your role within Duck and Dry? I actually don’t have a beauty background at all! I left my successful career in finance to become CEO of my own business. After I finished…
Holy Curls are a London born brand, inspiring curls the world over. They use cruelty-free, naturally derived ingredients, that focus on enhancing individual hair types. We believe that beauty is achieved inside out, and that bad hair days are a…
Jane Atherton is the creator of Pause Hydra Creme – the UK’s No1 face cream for hormonally changing skin. Jane is the CEO of umbrella company Phytomones Ltd and is also a clinical Nutritionist, Skin Therapist, Menopause advisor and best…
Unless you are willing to experience new things, you’ll never realise your full potential – Wim Hoff There are many incredible things about Wim Hof, the Dutch extreme athlete who’s set world records running marathons and climbing mountains (Everest and…
At the end of 2018, if you’d have told me that I’d be spending the first 3 Sundays of the New Year voluntarily purging into a bucket, with frog juice in my arm – all in the name of health,…
‘I don’t love science – I want to know what heals people’ – Ted Kaptchuk, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard and Director of the Harvard-wide programme in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter The purely rational…
The month of ‘Stoptober’ – a Public Health campaign that encourages smokers to give up for 28 days of the month, apparently making them five times more likely to quit. However going cold turkey doesn’t always work for everyone. Here…
During London Fashion Week (something I’m not heavily involved in given the state of my highly comfy-looking wardrobe), while most people are lusting over the clothes, I find myself admiring the parade of youthful and dewy complexions on show, along…
Forgotten Spices of the Archipelago ‘Jamu’ is most commonly found on the backs of traditional Kain Kebaya-wearing Javenese women. Transported via bamboo baskets, these young-middle aged women travel from villages to towns throughout Indonesia, shifting supplies of their local medical…
Clothing materials – what they mean, where they come from, are they ethical and will they be kind to your skin? Fast fashion, slow fashion – it can be difficult to keep up with the speed at which the fashion…
2018 cannot get enough of bacteria. The microscopic trend has seen them added to our drinks, our fermented foods and now even our face creams. Aren’t bacteria bad for you – what are probiotics? The yin and yang of the…
