Health and beauty

You love a clean home, but you’re not crazy about chemical-laden products. Sound familiar? The great news is, there are lots of ways to get your home environment squeaky-clean using essential oils. Here are four to add to your cleaning kit – and next week, I’ll share my best essential oil cleaning recipes.

1. Lemon oil

This is my number one essential oil for your cleaning kit. Why? Well, it’s great for removing stains and spots on clothes, it brightens and whitens and is a natural disinfectant. It can cut...

Yes, it’s true – you DO have a day spa waiting to happen in your kitchen! Here are some common pantry ingredients and how to use them on your face and body to feel like a million dollars.

Oats

This humble cereal grain is obviously great for making a hearty bowl of porridge on a cold morning – but did you know it can be the base for a lot of fab face and body treatments, too? Oats are perfect to use on sensitive skin and their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties mean they’re actually recommended by a lot of...

Getting sick in any way is never pretty. The body, normally such an inspiration of strength and durability, suddenly becomes a weak shell housing a never ending supply of snot, sweat and streaming eyes. If you could only take your nose off and wash it under a tap! And all of these gorgeous symptoms drain your body of essential fluids, leaving you parched with dry lips and crepe paper for skin. And I'm just talking about your average winter cold or 'flu, at most a viral infection.

After spending the last few days in bed with the above mentioned revolting...

Quite a few years ago I was given a hand scrub as a gift

I loved the idea of it, as I've always felt I have old lady hands.

The skin on the back of our hands is so thin, and the lines on my hands are quite prominent so when the skin is dry, they look extremely dry.

The scrub not only removed the dead skin cells via the salt, but also contains moisturising oils. My skin was smooth and soft the moment I used the scrub, and this result was long lasting. Using it daily meant my hands were...