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Journal articles on skincare, fragrance, wellbeing and news
Where healthy hair begins...
Run your fingers through your hair and you can feel it, the difference between smoothness and resistance. The way it slips easily through your hands, or catches slightly at the ends. Hair is often thought of as something to cleanse, soften, or style. But at its simplest, it is a...
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Mental health awareness, your self-care
Mental Health Awareness Week is a good time to explore where we see ourselves in terms of our mental wellbeing. Mental health is a relatively recent concept that is thankfully far better understood today than it was even twenty years ago. Science has realised how mental and physical health are...
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A more considered wedding
Planning a wedding today is less about scale and more about meaning. From choosing the right venue and suppliers to creating thoughtful wedding favours and a calm wedding morning routine, it is often the smaller decisions that shape how the day feels. This guide explores simple, considered wedding ideas to...
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A more considered way to travel
Before You Leave Travel begins long before departure. There’s a moment, usually a few days ahead, when attention turns to preparation, what to take, what to leave behind, and how to carry the essentials of daily life into a different setting. It’s here that habits tend to show themselves. Overpacking,...
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The gentle art of fragrance at home
There are certain moments at home that feel small but quietly important. The strike of a match in the early evening. The soft glow of a candle on a windowsill while rain gathers on the glass. A diffuser releasing fragrance slowly across a room while the day settles. These are...
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Movement, stillness, ritual
There’s a moment just before movement begins, a pause where everything is still. For dancer Angela Venturini, that space is just as important as the movement itself. It’s where awareness starts. Not performance, not pressure, simply paying attention to how the body feels. We first spoke with Angela several years...
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Give to yourself to gain your life back
There is a kind of giving that leaves women smaller. It happens quietly. In minutes taken from sleep. In boundaries softened to keep the peace. In days shaped around everyone else’s needs before the self is even considered. It is so familiar it rarely feels like loss, and yet, over...
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Winter places quiet demands on the skin
Cold air, wind and shifting temperatures all influence how skin behaves, especially when time outdoors is followed by warm, heated spaces. In the Lake District, winter often means long walks, time on the fells, or simply being outside more intentionally, wrapped up against the elements. These moments are grounding, but...
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The flowers that appear first
There is a particular kind of beauty to winter that asks for patience. It doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t bloom all at once or fill the air with colour. Instead, it waits, pared back, damp with rain, shaped by frost and low light, revealing itself slowly, if you’re willing to...
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A love letter to sleep
Sleep has become something we negotiate with. We bargain for it, steal it back in fragments, track it, optimise it, complain about it. And yet, it remains one of the most instinctive, intelligent things the body knows how to do. Long before wellness became an industry, sleep was our most...
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