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Better safe than sorry we reckon. Before you make the swap, check out how we got on with the best aluminium-free deodorants in the beauty biz below:

This is not just a fragrance; it’s a movement. “Every bottle of DefineMe Fragrance represents mold-breaking, barrier-crushing women that speak to different qualities they strive for: being confident, creative, strong, free-spirited, loving, passionate + fearless. For every bottle purchased DefineMe Fragrance gives $1 to educational scholarships for girls in low-income countries,” describes the brand. It won’t just be you who enjoys this perfume.

Within the space, travellers can discover a selection of fragrances, candles and soaps, crafted by Dior perfumer-creator François Demachy. At the heart of the offer is the Maison Christian Dior collection of 22 fragrances – a blend of new creations and pre-existing classics from Dior’s La Collection Privée.

The year was 1958. On a cutting board beside a white enamel sink, Mom pounded fresh red cube steak with a green Coca-Cola bottle, tenderizing a tough cut of meat. On other days she used that bottle capped with a perforated top to sprinkle water across white cotton shirts. As she ironed, the crisp fragrance of steaming cotton filled the kitchen. And you can bet your bottom dollar that Coke bottle wasn’t going to end up in a stream, lake or the sea.

"So treat your recycling bin as a recycling bin. Any organic or banned material has the ability of contaminating good recyclable product and can therefore risk the recyclable material having to be thrown away. Washing plastic material prior to placing it in a recycling bin is also a good way of helping to ensure that it’s recycled."

With bloggers flaunting their impressive beauty hauls on Instagram (pictured), it’s thought that young women are feeling under pressure to keep up appearances by snapping up second-hand bottles and containers on sites like eBay instead of buying them brand new

What’s more, the use of small Ukrainian oak barrels means the distillery can produce whisky and rum quickly as more of the alcohol is in contact with the oak, Kirichuk explains. “Big distilleries don’t use small barrels because they cost much more money for the same amount of alcohol, and they’re inconvenient to work with,” he says. “But in six to eight months, it has the same effect as 10 years in a big barrel.”

“JP” Morreale’s surreal awakening inspired him to shock the world via an unprecedented olfactory revolution. He created what’s now hyped as most exclusive, fragrant perfume ever, bearing the Morreale family surname. Honor restored. Most dreams don’t smell this exceptional.

Early in my writing career, I had an editor who curbed my enthusiasm for alliteration. While she definitely didn’t disapprove of the dastardly device, she was decidedly disinclined to let me deploy its domination with such distinct and determined dedication as I was doing in my drafts.

The plastic waste is broken down using a grinding machine, and the flakes are loaded onto a plastic extruder to convert waste plastic into useful raw materials as granules. These reprocessed plastic granules are then loaded onto a pipe extrusion machine which produces decent quality irrigation pipes for farmers and homogeneous tiles, and hence they are recyclable.

*Distilled water is advisable, especially if your tap water is hard. This assures no minerals or hard-water marks will be left behind.

In an industry characterized by signature scents and marquee fragrance families (consider the empire of Chanel No. 5 and its numerous offshoots, for example), it’s clear that Atkin wanted to shake things up by introducing four unique EDPs all at once. In our interview, Atkin says she decided on multiple eaux after "realizing how many girls were interested in our fragrances via DM," and that naming them after her fave destinations was her way to "laud our girls around the world." After all, the only thing better than one Ouai girl? Four of them.