Acne and makeup a complicated relationship Ok so you have a special event to go to on Saturday night, but you have acne flares too. You really want to party hard, but you don’t want to wake up Sunday morning with a face filled with more pimples. Enhance your best features The key is to […]
Let’s talk fertility Fertility is a hot topic and one that can tear at people’s heart strings. This is a blog post written in direct response to some women’s request for me to share my personal experience with other younger women. By now you would know that everyone has an opinion and that’s ok. But […]
Breast cancer’s battle … It’s 6:30 am on a Saturday and NO, I am not coming back home from a big night out. In fact, I’m in my swimmers, my surf lifesaving cap is on and I am just about to race, 2 km in soft sand. Did I mention, that I am really a […]
DOES STRESS SMELL? Does stress smell? Yes, it certainly does! The cause of the smell is all thanks to sweat. Not ALL sweat smells bad, just STRESS sweat. Sweat is produced in the deeper layer of skin called the dermis. Sweat glands are located all over the body, however, mainly on the forehead, armpits, palms […]
Did I mention that I did not always work in the glamorous world of cosmetics and fragrance development? A Science Degree alone, did not fast track me into my dream job. My first job was more like a nightmare, but I had to start somewhere! My very first job, after completing my degree at the […]
You smell nice! Thanks, but I can’t smell myself! Can you relate? There are some of you that take the matter into your own hands by over spraying yourself and anyone else that dares to come too close! To the people out there that think that pouring half a bottle of fragrance all over your body […]
10 kms down and 10 to go! Grrr….the voice inside my head is saying “Give up!” But there is a voice on the outside, yelling “Daph…come on Daph…nearly there…SMILE!” For the very first time in my life, I ran in a 20 km obstacle course in Tough Mudder. This event is going down as one of […]
What ignites the fire in your belly? What a great question and one that I found quite thought provoking. As a guest panellist at the University of Technology, Sydney, one of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) students asked me the question, “What drives you?” My answer: My father’s death! Aged 44 my father […]
Begin from the inside and SWEAT it out! For happy and healthy skin for longer, you don’t need expensive miracle potions and lotions. All you need is discipline and a holistic and balanced approach to skincare. We all know that exercise is good for our heart, but did you know that it is also good […]
After years of trying, I finally became the Product Manager in the Marketing department at Avon. I was the marketing person in charge of skincare. Perfect for a qualified and experienced cosmetic chemist, right? WRONG…
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