No matter what your age, lifestyle, career, life stage or pretty much whoever you are, the power of a smile can never be underestimated; it can brighten the day of those around you and doesn’t cost a penny. Feeling confident with your own smile though can be a different matter and for me, despite nearly 3 years of train-track braces as a teenager I’ve never felt confident with my smile and have tried countless drug-store whitening products and toothpastes. I’d considered braces as an adult but the cost (and discomfort) has always put me off, so professional whitening seemed the best option. I visited Candure in London to try out their High Gloss Diamond Polish treatment and shared my experience here ; I highly recommend it as step-up from a regular hygienist appointment and works well as a deep clean treatment. When Candure invited me back in to review their teethwhitening treatment I couldn’t resist. THE PROCESS At the first appointment my Dentist, talked me through t
Disposable shaver or old-fashion shaves One of the most difficult products to find outside the supermarket is the disposable razor. This can be understood, its growth is closely linked to that of plastic and hypermarket. BIC and Gillette were the first to market in 1975 a disposable handle-blade assembly while France had only 284 hypermarkets and discovered the plastic industry. Four decades later, the disposable razor has become the hallmark of the bathroom! ... And our garbage cans. BIC, market leader in volume, sold in 2016 nearly 2.6 billion disposable razors in the world. Adding in this sector the sales volumes of the main players in the BIC market, Gillette, Wilkinson and some private labels, we reach a figure of 8.2 billion units sold per year worldwide, that’s 22.5 million disposable razors every day on the planet. But what is a disposable razor? To put it simply, a plastic handle, a plastic head, 1 to 5 steel blades, and a protective cover.