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How do natural oils, help provide protection from UVA and UVB rays?

Herbs have been used in medicines and cosmetics from centuries. Their potential to treat different skin diseases, to adorn and improve the skin...

Multipurpose Kitchen Ingredients

We put so much thought and energy into making the right choices for our skincare. Finding the appropriate combination of moisturisers, toners, oils...

Parents

For a lot of us being in lockdown means spending extended time with our families, perhaps more than ever before and maybe not since we were childre...

Cleaning Up Your Beauty

Everybody is asking for clean beauty these days; skincare and make up that doesn’t come at a huge environmental cost, that is cognizant about what ...

Manly Gifts

Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to give men presents? Its not that men are recalper se. But there seems to be iron-clad codes on whats ap...

30 Days of Ilana Organics Brightening Skin Serum

A great deal of research and time goes into making sure Ilana products are safe and effective. But once they’re out there it’s always exciting for ...

In praise of 21st Century Dads!

It would seem that some relationships are both so ubiquitous as well as so complex, that we need a designated day to talk about them. Granted as In...

Still Trying to Shake That Plastics Addiction

When our business is skincare then primary packaging is a crucial element. Finding a good quality safe, airtight container to send you your favorit...

That Glass Versus Plastics Debate Again

Lockdown fatigue is setting in. So this week’s blog is about something that has been around long before the pandemic of 2020 and will continue to b...

Skin Deep and Under

A couple of weeks ago we talked about aging and wrinkles. How advertising and media makes it out to be a severe unnatural condition that must at al...

Hot versus pretty? Whats the difference?

Recently somewhere deep down an instagram feed there was this interesting question...Are you mature enough to appreciate someone else’s beauty with...

Rethinking Aspirations

We’ve all seen countless ads on television with sad women with blemished skin being shunned from social events or unable to leave the house because...

Mother’s Day

Days that celebrate special relationships tend to be chock full of rituals that primarily benefit greeting card companies and gift shops. That it's...