Tagged: beauty

There are horses for courses, but snails for faces? - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Mar 21, 2018 •

• advertisements,
• anti-microbial,
• beauty,
• Betaine,
• facials,
• Glycol,
• Health,
• honey,
• olive oil,
• Science and Society,
• snails,
• sodium,
• stuff

I first wrote about the snail facial back in 2015, in response to an article in the Herald on Sunday on that very topic. Today, the fact that there’s a story on the very same subject on the Stuff webpage suggests that there is always an appetite for woo (although when I read the story just now, I was … Read More

No Pain, No Gain: A History of Beauty Practices throughout the Ages - Guest Work

Jean Balchin • Jan 12, 2018 •

• Anaphylaxis,
• arsenic,
• beauty,
• bee venom,
• Botox,
• foot binding,
• lead powder,
• stem cell research,
• youth

It wasn’t until I felt the sharp sting of lemon juice trickling down into my eye made me realise I had made a terrible mistake. Inelegantly slumped over the bathroom sink, I squinted through my tears at the woebegone girl in the mirror and vowed never to bleach my freckles again. Although only twelve years old, I … Read More