Australian Beauty Secrets

A couple months ago, The Mike Stand tagged me for a Six Weird Things About You meme. I wrote a similar entry a while back, but it was actually a photoblog of Six Weird Things About My Home. I wasn’t feeling vulnerable enough at the time to share six things about myself, I suppose, even if it was just about my addiction to chapstick. (Foreshadowing!) I’ve since purchased a home and moved, and those six weird things probably all still apply, but to a different space. Our remodel is a never-endi

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During this winter, a terrible cold front swept over most of Iran and blanketed the country with severe sub-freezing temperatures for 18 days. I returned to my pomegranate garden in Saveh this spring, to find that the beautiful trees were gone: in their place, short, thick bunches of young green shoots stood there, as if the garden had just been created, like dry land claimed from the desert! …

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Are cinnamon and clove toxic? And are they in your beauty products? According to the Westminster guys, eugenol is the culprit. Eugenol makes up 78% of clove oil and in an in vitro test on human fibroblasts was “highly cytoxic at concentrations as low as 0.03%”. That doesn’t sound good, but may be the Westminster boys are going out on a limb again.

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Boots Centre For Innovation Seeks Out University Inventions, UKMedical News Today (press release), UK - 2 hours ago… so if their researchers have innovative ideas, we’d like to work with them to develop the next generation of health and beauty products. …

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Who wouldn’t like to have Deepika Padukone’s silky hair, and Kareena Kapoor’s glowing skin? That is why beauty products, endorsed by these stars, are selling like hot cakes. We take a look at Bollywood’s hottest female endorsers.

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Who wouldn’t like to have Deepika Padukone’s silky hair, and Kareena Kapoor’s glowing skin? That is why beauty products, endorsed by these stars, are selling like hot cakes. We take a look at Bollywood’s hottest female endorsers.

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Boots Centre for Innovation is turning to some of the UK’s leading universities to seek out new technology that can be applied to the health and beauty sector. The Centre is beginning a series of university roadshows with a seminar at the Said Business School in Oxford later this month in partnership with Isis Innovation, the technology transfer company of the University of Oxford.

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Healthzone acquires Jasham InternationalSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoBeauty products maker and retailer Healthzone Ltd has added pharmacies as a distribution channel after acquiring beauty and fragrance products distributor …

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The company operating the UK’s largest network of consumer loyalty cashback websites has seen a record increase in business - driven by the rising cost of living. froggybank.co.uk is the UK’s first and only green loyalty website which offers 100% of the commissions it receives back to consumers allowing them to keep the money or donate to charities.

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Yahia al Safwani is a fighter, shown by his expression as he describes his 15 years owning a small business in New Zealand.

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