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Wellbeing Week: Ridding The Toxins for Something More Organic
I know I’ve written passionately before about harsh chemicals and things like silicone in shampoo, my 5 Steps to heavenly Hair for example. After being further educated on such matters, I realised I’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg when it comes to beauty products that are more harmful than good. I met up with a beauty expert & what she had to say about ingredients like petroleum and Sodium Lauryl Sulphates(SLS) was rather terrifying and had me rifling through my beauty cabinet and filling up a large rubbish bag… Sodium lauryl sulphate , a chemical added to soaps and shampoo’s (to break down molecules & make them lather),…
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New Shoes???
It’s officially wedding season and whilst I don’t have a wedding to go to this year, I do have some events to attend-like the Dublin Horse Show in August. I like to pull out all the stops for the horse show, hat rental, new outfit, gloves and my hair up-styled. The Horse Show is the one event I hate to miss! I’ve been going since I was a child but Ladies Day is my secret pleasure, dressing up like a proper lady, enjoying champagne and fine food and watching the most beautiful horses do their thing! It’s marvelous… perhaps even afternoon tea at the Intercontinental hotel next door…. It’s about…
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Recipe:Vegetarian Dahl (Video)
We all try to eat healthier these days, and with trendy healthy restaurants popping up everywhere, some are charging almost ten Euro for a small cup of Dahl with nothing else, why not save a few bucks by making a big pot of it yourself? Lentil Dahl is protein packed, full of vitamins and you can make a pot full for less than a fiver! There are no rules and you can customize it how you like it! My Mum showed me how to make this when I was a teenager, we’d always add minced beef to it and serve it with a little rice on a Friday night and…
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Review: The Burrito Box Greystones – No Horsing About Here!
I know, I’ve been eating as cleanly as possible lately, avoiding meat, carbs and sugar, following a Keto’ based diet…but yesterday being Saturday, I decided to have a little treat.. So here’s me being really healthy, having lost almost 14lbs since Easter, my dresses feeling nicely loose again and well…..the tummy feeling less “Wobbly” as I get closer to my target where I join Pilates… My colleague started banging on about this new Burrito place down at the Greystones Marina and by the end of the day, I was positively salivating!!! So I went down after work to check it out! The Boat Yard in Greystones is fast becoming a…
A lifestyle blog by Sarah Cooke-O'Neill
