The Journal

Christmas Host Gifts: What to Bring That Won't Be Regifted

Wine gets drunk by the guests and candles get regifted. What to bring instead when someone opens their home to you this Christmas.

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Stocking Fillers for Women: Small Luxury Gifts She'll Actually Use

Most stocking fillers are bought in a hurry and forgotten by New Year. Our rule for small gifts, and the pieces from this year's Christmas edit that pass it.

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Does Cuticle Oil Actually Work? What It Does, and When to Use a Cream Instead

Cuticle oil won't make nails grow faster. Used properly, it does make cuticles softer, hangnails rarer and nails less prone to splitting. What it can do, what it can't, and oil versus cream.

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Why Hands Age Faster in an Australian Summer (and the Routine That Helps)

Sun, salt water, chlorine and constant washing: why hands show age before the face does, and a simple summer routine to keep them soft and protected.

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The Chatelier Routine: Natural Luxury Skincare for Mature Skin

There is a particular kind of woman who comes to us having tried everything clinical. The acids, the retinoids, the actives with numbers in their names. Her skin is not worse for it, exactly, but it is tired of being...

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The Modern Woman's Guide to Cellular Wellness and Longevity

"Longevity" has become one of the most overused words in wellness. It is attached to everything from cold plunges to five-hundred-dollar supplement stacks, usually with a great deal of confidence and very little evidence. We would like to reclaim it...

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The Best SPF for Mature Skin in Australia

If you do one thing for your skin after 40, make it sunscreen. Not because it is the fashionable answer, but because it has the best evidence of anything in skincare. Yet the sunscreens most of us grew up with...

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Why Pre-Workout Energy Needs to Support Hormonal Health

The pre-workout aisle was not built for us. Most pre-workout supplements were designed for young men chasing a bigger lift: very high caffeine, tingling stimulants, neon flavours and promises of "explosive energy". For a woman over 40 whose sleep, stress...

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Perimenopause, Skin and Supplements: A Guide, Done Properly

Perimenopause is the most underexplained stage of a woman's life, and it arrives just when most of us have the least time to research it. The skin changes, the sleep changes, the body changes, and the thinking can feel slower....

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