Archive for January, 2008

Why you should avoid SLS and SLES

Recently products have started to appear that make the claim of being SLS or sometimes SLES free. What are they and why should you be interested?

Why long legs make you more attractive

New Scientist is reporting a Polish study which has concluded that long legs are attractive in both sexes. Long legs are sexy .The study was carried out by Boguslaw Pawlowski and Piotr Sorokowski at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. It has been known for some time that taller people are more attractive but this [...]

A Candlelit Dinner

There is a way to make yourself more attractive when dating. Treat your date to a candle-lit dinner.

Looking good gets you a better job

If like me you were brought up in a fairly protestant work ethic sort of culture, you might well regard concern for one’s appearance as a superficial sort of thing. Grooming oneself might seem a form of vanity. Well maybe it is - but it turns out that potential employers don’t see it that [...]

Beauty Swap Shop

I am not going to make a habit of plugging other sites, but I spend a lot of time on www.beautyswapshop.co.uk. I post as beautyscientist over there. The idea behind the site is that you can swap beauty products that you don’t want with other people. There is always a nice buzz [...]

Looking After your Skin when Traveling

An article I wrote for http://girlstravelclub.co.uk The skin is the largest organ in the body and in many ways the most remarkable. It manages to be flexible, sensitive and does an amazing job of keeping the contents of your body in while keeping most of the stuff in the environment out. I [...]

Detox tips for the new year

Welcome to the new year and my first post of 2008.  I would have posted sooner but in the haze of Christmas I forgot my password and had to dig through piles of papers to retreive it.
 The groggy head has now cleared and I feel the need to address the issue of detoxification following the [...]

Fiddling with the look of the site, and the old forum is back.

The great advantage of Wordpress is that it allows you to easily change the look of your site.  The great disadvantage of Wordpress is that it allows you to easily change the look of your site.  I have spent much too long trying to get the appearance just right today, and not enough adding interesting [...]