The Journal

When we feel stuck in life, how would you encourage people to keep following their yes and curiosity to do what they love and what they want to spend time...

Every woman who lives long enough goes through menopause, yet the experience is far from universal. In Western countries, around three in four women report hot flushes. In Japan, studies...

The study Reducing Phthalate, Paraben, and Phenol Exposure from Personal Care Products in Adolescent Girls published in the peer reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives set out to see if swapping...

How many products do you use daily before you leave the house? If you’re like most people it could look like a face cleanser, shower gel, moisturiser, deodorant, sunscreen, perfume...

Pip Edwards for ETTO Australia Ten years ago, Pip Edwards launched P.E. Nation. An Australian fashion-first active wear brand that changed the rules with an aesthetic blend of street and...

The times through history when mainstream, doctor prescribed medications have not only failed to live up to expectation, but have caused serious harm. Reminding us, it’s always prudent to question...

When Does a Plant Stop Being a Supplement and Start Being a Drug? In 20 years, only 4 botanical drugs have been approved in the U.S. Botanical drugs receive less...

Late last year, testing on imported honey sold in Australia turned up a familiar and unsettling result: some of it wasn't honey at all, but sugar syrup engineered to mimic...

Seasonal shifts are critical times when the body's internal balance is vulnerable. Many of us may notice we are more prone to illness and colds and flus seem to flourish...

Eucalyptus has long been included in traditional home remedies as well as over-the-counter pharmaceuticals for treating nasal congestion, sinusitis and allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever. A 2025 systematic...

Everywhere you turn, there's a new electrolyte powder or beverage promising the ultimate rehydration. The commercial beverage industry is worth billions and growing fast, fuelled by strong consumer interest in...

A new review in the Journal of Hazardous Materials: Plastics, argues that marine microplastics are feeding into the very systems the ocean relies on to regulate the planet's temperature. What happens...

Your skin is an organ, built from living cells, and like every cell in your body, those cells depend on water to hold their shape and do their job. That's...

Antibiotics are losing their potency. Bacteria keep evolving ways to survive the drugs we create to kill them and one recent scientific review estimates we'll need roughly 20 brand-new antibiotics...

That shimmery glow in your sunscreen, body lotion, and lip balm almost certainly comes from mica, a naturally occurring mineral (also listed on ingredient labels as potassium aluminium silicate, or...

We spend a lot of time keeping our hands and skin "clean," but a microbiology study suggests a bit of dirt might actually be doing your skin a favour. What...

Time in nature is one of the best-evidenced, lowest-risk tools we have for mental health. Yet according to a new comment piece in Communications Health (a Nature Portfolio journal), most people...

A cleanser that suddenly stings. Redness that shows up for no obvious reason. Skin that feels tight, reactive, or unpredictable from one week to the next. A generation ago, this...

We usually think of skin as a passive shield, it blocks sunlight, and the main consequence we worry about is sunburn or, over time, skin cancer. A review in the...

How Tea Tree for Pimples can and does work Tea Tree can treat breakouts, but the Tea Tree used needs to be pure, high in the active terpinen-4-ol, and if...

  As far as skincare ingredients go for 2026, Tea Tree Oil isn’t new.  It is however, powerful. And backed by decades of science.  For years, the skincare industry has...

Long before "tea tree oil" showed up on skincare aisle labels everywhere, Australian researchers put it head-to-head against a proven acne treatment in a real clinical trial. The 1990 study,...

For decades, doctors in Japan have prescribed something unexpected for mental health and overall wellbeing: a walk in the forest. You may have heard of it. It's called shinrin-yoku, or "forest...

The power is ultimately in the customers hands. It’s what we as buyers are willing to purchase and demand of companies. Yes, companies should be doing the right thing but...