Cocoa butter is a vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean. It's used in chocolate and in some toiletries. It has a long storage life, and has moisturising properties that are often recommended for prevention of dry and itchy skin. For many people, cocoa butter is an excellent moisturiser. It is thought to have been used for improving skin tone as far...

These past few months have seen many victims of sexual abuse/assault speak out against their abusers. The main focus of this has been throughout Hollywood. On one side, this is such a positive push towards work places free of sexual abuse for women and men. And people feel as though they are finally going to be taken seriously when speaking out against their...

I've been thinking about how we, as a generation, are so involved with the world. And I love it. 'Millennials' get a lot of stick, "gen z" too. Basically just young people. But this year, there was a huge youth turn out in the general election. Young people are interested in politics, and what is going on in the country and the world.  We use this...

Since finishing my degree, I've not done a whole lot. But one thing I have tried to do more is read and I just wanted to blog about why I love it so much. While at uni, doing my undergraduate degree I never really read any books because I always had reading to do for my lectures. The thought: "If you have time to read for fun, you should be reading your uni...

Well here it is, the long neglected blog. I finished my masters degree last week in a blaze of couch surfing, terrible diet choices and even worse clothing choices. But what a year it's been. I won't bore you with me gushing again about how great it was, but as I've said on Twitter, seeing the department talk about new starters kinda hurts. Seeing @sheffjournalism...

As you'll see in my last post (here if you missed it) I was at the Good Housekeeping Institute last week for a placement, and what an exciting week it was. I helped to prep samples that were being sent out to testers, I helped to find future products to test, I helped to taste food ( i know, what a hard week), I attended three PR events and spent my lunch times...

Just in case you're one of the people I haven't spoken to about this week, I have a placement at the Good Housekeeping Institute in Soho, London. I've been so excited and so nervous for this for months. I have never been in London on my own before, in fact this is only the fourth time I have ever been. So this is all quite new to me! Things I've learnt...

Big news in the beauty world this week, NARS are starting selling in China.  If you didn't know, Chinese law dictates that animal testing is required by any foreign cosmetics company. So, although European law bans animal testing for cosmetic ingredients and final stage cosmetics, some brands aren't cruelty free as they sell in China. L'Oreal,...

Ok, so I knew I hadn't blogged in a while but I hadn't realised my last one was the 27th of April, oops. But, I'm still here, hanging around and hasn't a lot happened. In my own life, I've made it through the May from hell. I somehow survived through my deadlines. My last one was the 30th May and I'm still not fully recovered from the lack of sleep and lack...

In the lead up to the snap elections in June I wanted to write a quick post about helping people. When the election was announced I saw people slip very quickly into the attitude of "omg how dare you not vote, educate yourself" but let's break this down. Firstly, politics is important, to every single person in the country. BUT, not every political element...

Last year brought two shock election results. Many young people are blaming the over 65s for the way the results have turned out, does this mean they are too old to vote? Read on to find out. On the 23rd June 2016, I voted for the first time at 22 years of age. I was excited, brimming with hope that my vote would make a difference to my future. On the...