Face Food: DIY Firming Avocado/Cucumber Masque

Feed your face…but not through your mouth, even though this DIY spa recipe, like many, sounds so good that you could very well just eat it up. Food that is good for you to eat can often be just as nourishing when applied topically to the skin, too, so we asked Adrian Bryce, founder of [...]

Research Shows Vitamin A May Lower Risk of Melanoma

Melanoma accounts for 75 percent of deaths from skin cancer each year, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation, and researchers may have found a way to decrease your risk of developing this life-threatening illness: vitamin A. In a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, data from 70,000 vitamin-taking participants was collected and examined [...]

Face Facts: The Beauty-Brain Loop

We’ve heard all our lives that beauty is skin-deep, but is it? How many of us feel more confident when we’re having a good hair day or happier when we wake up blemish free? How we look on the outside often reflects our feelings about ourselves on the inside and as time goes on, that [...]

Bespoke Anti-Ageing from the Inside

Anti-ageing products and treatments are everywhere – and ever-growing. It seems like each week, another cream, treatment, miracle pill or you-name-it is coming out and promising to banish our spots, smooth our wrinkles and make us all look beautiful and young.  Among the products out there, perhaps the most innovative of these new measures comes [...]

Shiny Happy People – Live Longer

Is happiness the key to the Fountain of Youth? According to a study of British residents, while it may not reverse your existing wrinkles or gray hair, it can help older people live longer. Older people who said they were happy, even for a little while, were less likely to die over a five-year period, [...]