Barefoot Botanicals

Your Right To See Your Medical Records

Q: I want to look at my medical records, but my GP surgery seems reluctant to let me. Can they stop me from seeing them?

A: No. The Data Protection Act 1998 means that everyone is entitled to see their medical records, according to the Patients Association patient’s guide... read more

Gill Meets Kazu & Kidada

Kazu Namise and Kidada Jones are co-founders of Phylia de M. Based in LA, they have created a hair care system that effectively brings back hair health and vitality. How did the two of you meet? We met about 7 years ago through a very dear mutual friend. Kidada is a life-long hair product aficionado and lover of all things Japanese, who was always looking for an all natural product that actually works for optimum hair GROWTH and HEALTH. She was our toughest client who became our best client. read more

Finding My Sanctuary

If you are a dynamic person, who treats life as a race, there is sanctuary to be found in the gym. Especially if you are of a certain age. For someone who has long regarded fitness as something that needed to be achieved in record time in order to shed weight (invariably in record time too), it’s liberating to discover that, at a certain point in life, there is more to be gained in challenging your body in kinder, more compassionate ways...read more

Yoga For Life

I am a yoga bunny from way back. (You were more likely to find 12-year-old me attempting Tree pose in my bedroom with a copy of Teach Yourself Yoga at homework time than revising logarithms, that’s for sure.) Over the years since then, the one nugget of anti-ageing advice that I give out to everyone – aside from recommending eight glasses of water a day and plenty of omega 3s – is to take up yoga. And in the hope of making yoga a little more accessible for people...read more

Tips For Trips

Over the years of Beauty Bible, we’ve done a fair bit of travelling: Jo has countless relations in the States and Oz and now even Sarah (who once upon a time only went as far as a horse, car or train could take her) has been to Australia twice! (Her about-to-be-husband has a home in Fremantle.)Our mission, however – whether it’s a short train hop from Hastings to Charing Cross or a major trans-Continental flight across...read more

Spring

After a winter rest, the power of springtime surges through nature and through us. Ancient Chinese believed that we should live in harmony with the natural cycles of our environment and recognize the naturally occurring ebb and flow of energy reflected in our bodies. de Mamiel Spring Facial Oil is blended to work in synergy with these changes and put back what nature takes out at a time when it is needed. Spring is the perfect time to... read more

May Newsletter

Welcome to the May newsletter where we take a look at new product launches and I tell you about the most outstanding range of hair care products that I have ever used! With much emphasis in the media on the importance of ‘green’ foods, Shabir investigates the green ingredient that really makes a difference to our health and wellbeing, I write about a product because I like its name (it just happens to be excellent too, of course!) ... read more