Hot stuff: New Zealand s best natural hot springs
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Plunge into soothing and healing natural hot pools and springs, writes Ewan McDonald
New Zealand s blown hot and cold over the millennia, so we have more than 100 thermal hot pools and springs – from the free to the luxurious. They ll help soothe your skin and muscles and maybe add years to your life.
Thorpe Talbot is not a name that resounds in Aotearoa s literary history, so full credit: in 1882 she published our first tourist guidebook,
The new guide to the lakes and hot springs, and A month in hot water. Unfortunately, many of her not-to-be-missed attractions were blown up four years later in the Tarawera eruption. Not to worry, there are still plenty to soak in today.
Jason Lloyd-Evans
Most of us donât give the near-invisible peach fuzz (or vellus hair) on our faces a second thought, but itâs currently getting a lot of attention on TikTok. Yes, shaving the face â or dermaplaning, to use the professional term â has been adopted by the Gen-Z crowd as a way to brighten and smooth the skin. Influencers from Chloe Morello to Jaclyn Hill are among the current fans of the technique, and it is said that Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor also incorporated dermaplaning into their routines way back when.
âDermaplaning is actually a manual exfoliation technique that is used to scrape the top layers of skin (or stratum corneum), to brighten and allow products to penetrate deeper into the skin,â explains aesthetic doctor, Dr David Jack, who has offered it as part of his Egyptian Facial for over eight years. âIt is best done using a surgical scalpel blade in clinic, and is often combined with an exfoliating peel.â
Living without disabilities, for many, means taking certain seemingly simple tasks for granted. When s the last time you put on your antiperspirant and actually thought for a moment how challenging that action something you do each and every day without obstacle might be for someone else? So perhaps it s because so many of us without disabilities haven t considered the needs of those who have them that it took so long for a mainstream drugstore brand to finally design something long overdue: a deodorant made to be accessible for those with a visual impairment and upper-limb disabilities.
Unilever has partnered with a team of design experts, occupational therapists, engineers, consultants, and people living with disabilities to create
Study characterizes anti-inflammatory effect of strawberry geranium on the skin
Strawberry geranium (
Saxifraga stolonifera) has been used in Japan as a herbal medicine to treat wounds and swelling, and continues to be an ingredient in food and cosmetics. Pharmacological studies have shown that extracts of strawberry geranium have antioxidant and antitumor activities. However, the anti-inflammatory effect of strawberry geranium on the skin had not been well characterized.
This study, first-authored by associate professor Takeshi Kawahara of the Institute of Agriculture, Shinshu University for a joint research project with Maruzen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. succeeded in obtaining results which showed that the suppression of excessive immune response mediated by Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) to infectious microorganisms of skin keratinocytes which indicates strawberry geranium, called yukinoshita in Japanese can be a means of resolving routine infectious dermatitis.