It’s the natural remedy which you hoped would never be discovered. In recent years, snail slime has swept the streets of natural skincare like a tidalwave, and it shows no sign of abating. The secret to revitalising your skin has supposedly been oozing around your garden for years, at the very second you were furiously […]
Yesterday, we discussed a new acne study on water spinach, a green vegetable growing in damp and misty swamps in places like Sri Lanka. It sounded fantastic on the surface, slaying p.acnes bacteria, and it was undoubtedly decent. However, among the flood of recent studies testing obscure acne remedies from all corners of the globe,
Recently, the legions of acne scientists seem to have been delving into weird and wacky acne remedies from obscure parts of the globe. We’ve had impepho, the twigs of a South African bush growing at grassy hillsides, which is burnt in superstitious rites. We’ve had Asian hornbeam, a swaying tree found in Chinese parks and
One of the strangest mysteries in the acne universe is precisely which remedies climb to the top of the pile. For example, right now there are probably dozens of women with cucumbers over their eyes, as recommended in blog articles for skin tone. Yet cucumbers have almost no nutrition or special compounds. Meanwhile, we have
When you hear the words “essential oil”, what image instantly springs to mind? Is it a lilac coloured vial of liquid which can refresh and energise your mind with a single sniff? Is it a useful topical treatment which you have to carefully mix in with some grapeseed oil to possibly reduce acne? Or is
