6 CBD oil alternatives to ease the pain of

11 Feb

After coming from humble hippy-dippy beginnings, CBD has quite quickly taken over the beauty and wellness industry with Forbes reporting earlier this year that 8 million people in the UK are buying CBD products, spending over £150m in the first four months of 2020 alone. While there are now more CBD brands than you could try in a lifetime, for some, the taste and texture of the oils (or tinctures as they’re also known) are off-putting. As COVID-19 still holds the world in its grip, whatever stage of lockdown you’re in – in, out, or returning – you’re likely still feeling the impact of being cooped up. Fear not, we’ve got a round-up of CBD oil alternatives to help ease those aches and pains and...

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16 Aug

Beauty is pain: The increasing masochism of self-optimisation

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Beauty, Featured

Beauty is pain: The increasing masochism of self-optimisation

I recently went through a major heartbreak, and found myself experiencing a sudden storm of wellness-adjacent impulses, ones that arrived in lockstep with each painful emotion. Should I go on a keto diet? Get Botox? An eyebrow lift? Or an acid peel? True, all of these exercises feel consistent with “glowing-up”, a breakup rite of passage. Except they came with distinct feelings of anger, shame, and even violence. Why was it that these beauty treatments, which are sold to us as self-care, could feel more akin to an urge to self-harm? By now we’re all too familiar with the old adage ‘beauty is pain’. Traced back to at least 1800s France (‘il faut souffrir pour être belle’, or ‘one must suffer...

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10 Oct

Pain de Sucre | Spring Summer 2024 | Full

by Beautifaire101

Fashion

Pain de Sucre | Spring Summer 2024 | Full Fashion Show in High Definition. (Widescreen - Exclusive Video/1080p - Gran Canaria Swim Week by Moda Cálida) #Paindesucre #SS24 #Grancanaria Dario Darnell - Give Your Love To Me /Can You Feel My Heart Beating ...

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10 Jul

This Wearable Device Relieves Chronic Knee Pain – WWD

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Beauty, Featured

This Wearable Device Relieves Chronic Knee Pain – WWD

Motive Health launches on Monday with one goal in mind: treating knee pain. The brand’s FDA-cleared device uses muscle stimulation to strengthen quadricep muscles and relieve knee pain. The technology is analogous to that of cosmetic treatments like Emsculpt, which uses high-intensity electromagnetic therapy to tone and tighten muscles and skin. Motive Health employs neuromuscular electrical stimulation, which boosts muscle activation. Electromagnetic therapy employs electromagnetic fields, while electrical stimulation uses electric current through electrodes, in keeping with the Blue Cross. The concept for the brand got here about 14 years ago, in keeping with Motive cofounder, Hospital for Special Surgery orthopedic surgeon and Recent York Mets team physician Dr. Struan Coleman. “All of the muscles which might be above the kneecap, every...

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