Category: Beauty

Do unusual ingredients really help aging skin?

What is your opinion of expensive skin-care lines which contain all sorts of unusual ingredients, such as collagen and elastin? Do these products really have an effect on aging skin as they claim to?...

Depilatory creams not carcinogenic

For years I have used depilatory creams without any visible ill effects. They leave my skin lovely and smooth for at least a week, whereas shaving leaves stubble. Recently, someone warned me that depilatory...

ALLERGIES and beauty products

THE BEAUTY SPOT: ALLERGIES DIFFICULT Can you please help me obtain ingredient information on a popular perfume I am allergic to? When I wear this perfume, or even come in contact with someone who...

CAN FINGER NAILS REVEAL PERSONALITY?

Some time ago you wrote a column which dealt in part with the possibility of a link between one’s eye color and one’s personality. I am fascinated by this sort of thing and have...

Try Homemade Recipes for Winter Dry Skin

Homemade dry skin tips are definitely out there. Whether they are the recipes your grandmother or mother used (or still use), stuff that can be likened to old wives tales, or even new age...

OVER-MOISTURIZING CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS

I would like to know how to eliminate the small white lumps under the skin on my forehead and cheeks. I have read that these are accumulations of fat which occur in people with...

Vichy Dermablend Corrective Foundation review

Review – Vichy Dermablend Corrective Foundation   I’d read about the Vichy Dermablend Corrective Foundation (£15.50 at Boots) on a couple of blogs and was really interested in trying it myself. The key selling point for...

Carmine’s January Beauty Box review

Carmine’s January Beauty Box   My Carmine Beauty Box arrived the other day, so I thought I’d give you a quick overview of the products I received this month! For me, this month isn’t up there...

February Glossybox review

MY February Glossybox   Just in time getting my February Glossybox review in before the much-anticipated Harrods box adds a little extra sparkle to spring! (Devastatingly, I have had to go cold turkey on beauty boxes...