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Ask Lucy: How to soothe and heal sensitive skin

Is your skin constantly thirsty, itchy and inflamed? We talk to our founder Lucy Vincent on how to give the skin barrier the best start by feeding it a super dose of nutrients for soft supple skin all winter long.

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Ask Lucy: Why is pH so important with hair?

The foundation of shiny, luminous hair starts with pH. While internally our bodies thrive in an alkaline environment, our hair and scalp's ideal pH is acidic. Creating pH balance is absolutely crucial to avoid breakage, dryness, frizz and colour fade of your hair.

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Mekdela Maskal

You might recognise Mekdela Maskal from our beautiful recent campaign imagery. But modelling is just one part of the wide-ranging work this intelligent and generous-spirited woman does.

A trained journalist, she has worked with Open Newsrooms to help local communities understand and participate in the news process more effectively, and is the Engagement Editor for Covering Climate Now, which works to increase and improve climate change journalism. One aspect of her work that drew our particular interest is in the little-understood realm of food justice – or food apartheid, as it’s increasingly being called.

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Laura Schoorl of Pansy

Laura Schoorl wants you to feel wonderful in your underwear. The director of sustainable, ethical underwear brand Pansy radiates warmth, comfort and minimalist beauty, and has translated that love for people and nature into a beautifully organic and comfortable range of intimates that celebrates diversity in shapes and sizes. We talked to her about her rituals for inspiration, relaxation and how she works through the challenging moments of entrepreneurship. Image: Ophelia Mikkelson

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Elisabeth Vidal, Designer

Welcomed into the private home of Elisabeth Vidal on her 52nd birthday says much about the French designer’s warmth and enthusiasm, even before we delve into her sublime catalogue of collaborative projects, including ceramics, furniture and interiors. With a focus on working with artisans throughout Italy, France, Portugal and Japan, Elisabeth’s research on the essential object finds its foundations in tactile apprehension and gestures.

Originally a graduate from the ESDI in Paris, Elisabeth has spent many years working and tutoring in Milan, living with her husband and two children. A few years ago, they moved back to Montpellier where Elisabeth grew up, and it is here, we meet and spend the morning speaking about personal maps and the importance of taking the time to live. Images by Mary Gaudin

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Music to Retreat To

A one-hour-long musical journey with Angel Olsen...

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Marta Rubio, The Bathing Series — Tokyo, Japan

Bathing with a kind heart turned inward, we find transformation in the mundane sensing a connection between effort and pleasure...

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Maly Mann, Painter

With intentions on becoming a teacher, Los Angeles-based painter Maly Mann subsequently left university to pursue a freelance lifestyle as an artist. A pathway that was always calling, yet blurred with fear. We meet with Maly to speak about the moments that are pivotal in developing creative work — managing time & anxiety, and the courage to call one's own boundaries.

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Kristin Dickson-Okuda of Iko Iko

Kristin Dickson-Okuda has built her creative language from acknowledging an experience’s essence and then making it tangible. This process of design results in Kristin’s brand clothing line Rowena Sartin, and her husband Shin’s furniture project WAKA WAKA, both of which are housed in their Los Angeles-based concept space Iko Iko (Japanese for ‘let’s go!’). And as one would imagine, the energy of such sentiment is laden across all that they create.

For years we have admired Kristin’s approach to concept and construction, creating pieces for the body and home that encourage connection. Becoming a mother has further clarified this vision. Kristin's work is deliberate and bold, unveiled by ego and determined to gently answer some of life’s little questions.

Claire Cottrell visited Kristin at the studio, capturing her in motion, somewhere between problem-solving and play.

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Claire Cottrell, Filmmaker + Photographer

Award-winning filmmaker and photographer, Claire Cottrell has held our attention for many years. Dividing her work into design, women and food, Claire's work spans a narrative that references archetypes in architecture, literature and film. Now splitting her time between Los Angeles and France, Claire has created for herself a way to allow for dense working periods that are then balanced with ample space, time, and long solo walks...

We meet Claire at the Huntington Gardens in LA to speak about her approaches to freelancing, the importance of reflection, and how she self nourishes.

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Carter Were, Summer Series 01. Garden Quiche

Living off the land on a lush property in Federal, New South Wales, Australia, Were Bros founder Carter Were tends to her garden, chooks, jersey cows, and the most recent addition to the family-her baby girl. With an emphasis on well grown ingredients, Carter's cooking celebrates sun-ripened produce that has been grown with loving enthusiasm and a tender hand, with no nasty sprays or chemicals...

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Ask Lucy: Is vitamin A safe?

There is plenty of misinformation around vitamin A. Online chatter cites it as a cancer-causing ingredient and others warn pregnant women away from it.

Vitamin A is the one ingredient in dermatological studies with the safest record, delivering the most remarkable results for your skin.

We chat to our founder Lucy and find out the truth on vitamin A and what it can do for your skin.

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A soothing ritual for eczema relief

Bathing is one of the most important treatments for eczema and dermatitis as water hydrates and softens the stratum corneum [the top layer of skin], allowing your moisturiser to be more thoroughly absorbed. Bathing also removes allergens, irritants and dry, built-up skin cells.

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Lisa Cooper, Creative

Introducing the wonderful Sydney based artist Lisa Cooper –– author, Doctor of Philosophy & a self-confessed flower obsessive. Imagery by Kelly Geddes

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Juliet Allen, Sex Therapist

Knowing very well the power in having a job title that raises a few eyebrows, Byron Bay-based Sex Therapist Juliet Allen is publicly dismantling the mythology around love making one open conversation at a time.

Her approach to sexual pleasure avoids touching on anything too spiritual or overly romantic, instead Allen focuses on arming her audience with practical real-life tools so they can get the most out of their intimate relationships.

Her conversation extend from bedroom intimacy between lovers into realms that include friendships and one's own self care and respect...

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