Beauty Rebel

With 10-step routines, marketing spin lauding anti-ageing products, and an overwhelming amount of products in the market, it can be hard to sort fiction from fact when it comes to beauty. We love to tell it like it is (after all, our founder Sharon is known as a ‘truth speaker’ and the motto of our blog is sharing all the stuff the beauty industry doesn’t want you to know!) so here we debunk 5 common skincare and beauty myths to set the record straight. Myth 1. You need a specific type of cleanser  While it’s true that there are different skin-types...

What do you think of when you hear the word marketing? When most people think about marketing, they might think of tactics like paid advertising via magazines, or television commercials, email marketing, or social media and influencer marketing. While the media landscape has changed over the years, brands typically follow a blueprint of how to 'successfully' market themselves in the modern landscape. And part of that, is never talking publicly about their marketing practices! We want to change that. We want to flip the script and empower women and men to feel good about themselves, not market to them (or...

Part 1. The privilege of ageing   Age is - let's face it- a construct. we know that depending on where in the world we live, we may hold very different views on ageing. But, when exposed constantly to unrealistic images, the more we tend to question our own image staring back at us in the mirror.  How funny that when we're kids we think of being in our 20's as unimaginable, and when we're a teenager we think of being in our 30's as ancient. Once we hit our 20's, being 40-something is heading for retirement and as we hit...

Imagine this. Your friend has almost won you over to try out an essential oil she adores, but when you go to actually hunt it down, things get complicated. The claims on the bottle, like ‘100% Pure’, ‘100%’ Natural’, ‘All-natural’, ‘Pure & Natural’, all sound like variations of the exact same thing - but with different price tags, leaving you totally confused. Is $15 Lavender oil the same as the one in the $29 bottle? Is it all spin, or is there actually a difference? Reaping the full powers of nature Let’s first define essential oils. In a nutshell, essential...