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
My Stay-Slim Secrets
A couple of months ago, I shared with VH readers some of the tips I’ve gleaned over the years for not piling on the pounds: what I eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. (Click here to read it). But I’ve also picked up many other tips for resisting temptation and ensuring I eat healthily, even when I’m touring or away on business. I hope – as the bikini season approaches rather scarily fast, and we all start to think about our bodies! – that you might find these useful, too... 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
Lanolips
Lanolips™ is the result of eight years work, a lifetime of preparation. And more than a millennia of market testing. I own a lovely vintage book called ‘The Lanolin Book’, published by Beiersdorf who created mega-brand ‘NIVEA’, which used to contain lots of lanolin. One of my favourite passages is this: ‘Everyone who has seen the 2,500 year old Paczyryk carpet in the St. Petersburg Hermitage will have noticed not only the fine knots, but also the unusual radiance,... 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