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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching

Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.

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Where hoarding and dementia meet

As Grandma’s dementia advanced, the things she’d amassed became more important: they consoled her. Clearing safe walkways through the piles became the first – though unwelcome – compromise.

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The fine line between collecting and hoarding

Being ‘a collector’ is often celebrated but being labelled ‘a hoarder’ can be humiliating, at best. Georgie Evans asks what makes one set of objects a collection and another a hoard.

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Sex in graphic novels

Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

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  • Advertisment for Calvert's Soaps
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard cosmetics, oils, moisturisers and soaps].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard cosmetics, oils, moisturisers and soaps].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard cosmetics, oils, moisturisers and soaps].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard cosmetics, oils, moisturisers and soaps].
  • Use Calvert's carbolic fluid, powder & soaps : the most effective disinfectants / F.C. Calvert & Co.
  • Established 1831 : P. L. Cusachs, chemist and druggist, importer of perfumery, sponges, soaps and brushes, mineral waters, vichy, kissingen, soda and mead on draught.
  • Established 1831 : P. L. Cusachs, chemist and druggist, importer of perfumery, sponges, soaps and brushes, mineral waters, vichy, kissingen, soda and mead on draught.
  • Dianthus caryophyllus L. Caryophyllaceae Carnation, clove-gilliflowers - Mediterranean Culpeper (1650) writes that ‘Clove-gilliflowers, resist the pestilence, strengthen the heart, liver and stomach, and provokes lust.’ They smell strongly of cloves, and an oil made from the petals is used in perfumery, soaps etc. The petals are sometimes used as a garnish for salads. In herbal medicine they are used to make a tonic. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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