Be an Eco Warrior with our Organic Products: Oil-based products can be good for you

Be an Eco Warrior with our Organic Products: Oil-based products can be good for you

At SW1, making you beautiful is just one of our priorities. Reducing carbon footprint is another. Preservatives are commonly used in products to prolong their shelf-life but these chemicals inevitably go down the drain and back into our water system.

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Being attractive is easier than you think, according to study.

Being attractive is easier than you think, according to study.

In 1997, Mehrabian and Blum started a research based on a simple idea – they wanted to find out what physical features were found to be most attractive to the opposite sex. More importantly, they wanted to find out the relative importance of stable features, such as body type and height vs changeable features such as grooming and clothing when it comes to physical attractiveness.

Basically, they wanted to find out what combinations deemed a person attractive.

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Post Feasting Acne and How To Get Rid Of Them

Post Feasting Acne and How To Get Rid Of Them

 If you are familiar with TCM (traditional Chinese medicine), you would have heard of different foods being referred to as being ‘heaty’ and ‘cooling’.

​​​​​​​This concept is based on the Chinese philosophy of yin (cooling) and yang (heaty), and the terms 'heaty' and 'cooling' are used as a classification system to describe symptoms and characteristics of certain foods and the effects they have on our body. This is a system that has been developed over more than 2,000 years of detailed observation in TCM.

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5 best facials before a red-carpet event

5 best facials before a red-carpet event

At some point in our lives, we’ve all had (or will have) the pleasure (and possibly stress) of having to attend an all-important event where looking our best is just scratching the surface. We’re talking about going all out to impress a la Crazy Rich Asians,

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A "Hot" New Facial That's Revolutionizing Beauty

A "Hot" New Facial That's Revolutionizing Beauty

At some point you will have to face the inevitable and accept the hard, cold reality when you notice more wrinkles and lines around your face. Ageing to most is never a pretty sight but thank goodness for medical advances in aesthetics, where a myriad of choices abound when it comes to looking young again

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