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7 Aug

This dissolvable, zero-waste shower gel will change the way

Packaging is a hot topic in the sweetness industry for the time being, and rightly so. The industry’s excessive amounts of single-use plastic and penchant for elaborate press mailers contributes greater than 120 billion units of packaging into the world every 12 months, lower than 10 per cent of which is recycled. In an effort to alter beauty’s wasteful culture and end this packaging crisis, a slew of corporations and types have emerged with sustainability of their hearts and zero-waste solutions of their hands. On Repeat, for instance, a zero waste beauty packaging service, launched earlier this week with a mission to assist brands create bespoke refill solutions and compostable or dissolvable packaging. One other brand hoping to make a difference is...

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7 Aug

Finding ways to attach together with your body after

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Finding ways to attach together with your body after

How often do you ask to be held? Or tell a friend you would like a hug if you find yourself struggling and wish to feel protected and supported? “Physical touch is as vital because the oxygen we breathe in, the food we eat,” says Dr McGlone, professor of neuroscience. It’s fundamental to our wellbeing, our mental and physical health, and yet our buttoned-up culture often discourages and appears down on asking for help, admitting that you must be comforted. After watching her brother Tom’s body fail him and his death from cancer at just 19, Freya Bromley developed an advanced relationship together with her own body. Not only did she feel disconnected physically and emotionally, but she discovered that everybody...

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6 Aug

Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

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Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, creator and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable on the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being. In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the creator of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old notions of beauty and divulges how the expectations and demands around it are completely contradictory. Disobedient Bodies grapples with the complicated and messy history of beauty, and the way our always evolving (yet...

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6 Aug

Unshrinking: how you can detox from fatphobia

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Unshrinking: how you can detox from fatphobia

In her recent book Unshrinking, Kate Manne explores the systemic nature of fatphobia and the way we are able to unlearn the damaging body standards we're taught from a young age Prior to now week, five per cent of teenage girls have used a harmful weight-loss product with out a prescription from a health care provider. That’s one in 20. We live in a society that places a major amount of value on thinness, and it’s clear the pressure to stick to this ideal starts young. Fatphobia is present in nearly every aspect of our culture, from medical bias around weight to body shaming in promoting. And if it seems, on the surface,...

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