Not quite the real thing: Coca-Cola’s ‘secret formula’ is out of the bottle | Empty Aluminum Perfume Bottle

From the people behind The Fragrance Shop, this service sends an 8ml vial of the perfume of your choice every single month. There are more than 200 and you can either reorder the same one, try something new, or use the £12 towards a full-size bottle.

Pricing is listed at $40 in 10ml and $155 in 100ml sized bottles. To learn more about the Functional Fragrance, visit The Nue Co.’s website or Supplement Shop in New York.

Civet comes from the anal glands of the endangered wildcat found in India and Africa. The civets are captured and held in cramped cages for years, with the musk being “scraped” out every 10 days. Brutal and icky as this sounds, civet musk is still present in many of the world’s favourite perfumes. The problem is, you wouldn’t know it, because companies are not legally obliged to disclose the ingredients used in their scents. They count as “trade secret formulas” and are exempt. Instead, you’ll simply see “fragrance”, “perfume” or “parfum” on the ingredients list. 

It’s time to embrace a deodorant that’s a little more aluminium-free and a lot better for your health. Armpits rejoice!

Most of the glitter that adorns America’s name brand products is made in one of two places: The first is in New Jersey, but the second, however, is also in New Jersey. The first, the rumored farm site of glitter’s invention, refused to answer any of my questions. “We are a very private company,” a representative said via email. The second is Glitterex.

The best part is you’ll have plenty of each of the single notes left over, so you can continue to customize as time goes on, or just wear one at a time! A great trick is to keep notes on the strips so you can refer back before making a final decision, but the kit has enough product to try a few times should you need to.

“That was the early adjustments leading to the Puddle Jumper High Performance,” says Biolos. “Reduce the nose area in the forward third and pull in the tail block in the last few inches.”

"However, if a householder disposes of organic material in refuse and it goes to landfill, not all is lost from a re-use perspective. As rubbish at a landfill degrades, it releases methane gas. At modern landfills, this gas is extracted via a network of wells and converted into electricity. For example, EnviroWaste’s Hampton Downs Landfill currently produces sufficient electricity to power the operations at the landfill, as well as supplying the national grid with enough electricity to power approximately 5600 households."

This makes it very useful when compared to other items that might be in your kerbside recycling bin. As Jones points out, "aluminium is the most valuable commonly recycled commodity on a per tonne basis".

Like all boards, if you take something, in this case stability through width, you gotta lose something. Which meant the thing will give a little of that hi-fi feel but on the stable platform of the (again, ugh, ugh, ugh) fun board.

Other new brands have different strategies. The year-old Oo La Lab adopts the customisation approach, allowing customers to create their own scents by choosing from 27 fragrance notes in its shop in Alexandra Road. Customers select the base, middle and top notes and walk away with an individualised fragrance. A one-hour workshop to create a 20ml eau de parfum costs $88 for an individual and $156 for a couple.

If there’s one brand that nails Christmas gift packs every year, it’s L’Occitane. And their 2018 offering is no different. One of our favourite picks from their current holiday range is this Shea Butter Bauble. Featuring a 10mL Shea Butter Hand Cream, 20mL Shea Butter Body Lotion and 25g Shea Butter Soap, this decorative ornament will liven up any Christmas tree, while the products inside nourish and hydrate dry skin.