✍️"I’ve never felt confident enough to shout about it, but now I find myself in such good company – with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s admission that they rarely use soap – that it’s time to speak my dirty truth"
📸Andrew Crowley
Pandemic aside, we just don’t seem to need it, Marina, who is married to Ben Fogle writes.
✍️"I’ve got sensitive skin, you see – I suddenly developed eczema aged 28 and have struggled to control it ever since"
"Soap is one thing that doesn’t help, so I’ll shower in the morning but I’ll use water to wash, with no soap"
📸Andrew Crowley
🔴Marina points out: "Using soap is thought to break down this skin barrier, leading to skin conditions that require yet more products to rectify it"
"The more I thought about the fact we are interfering with our bodies for no reason, the more cynical I became about the skincare industry"
📸Christopher Pledger
➡️She adds that 'Feminine hygiene' products, designed specifically for women to wash and fragrance intimate areas are sold throughout the UK, "in spite of gynaecologists warning that there is no need for a woman to wash her vulva with anything other than water"
🔴The British Retail Consortium, which represents the major chains, said it expected to see food shortages by the end of the week
Pork suppliers have warned of "farmageddon" within 10 days.
🐷Pig farmers have threatened to slaughter animals on their land for render because of a growing backlog at abattoirs and processing plants due to the CO2 shortage
📉In a landmark study, scientists from the University of Manchester and the University of Western Australia found that they could reduce the number of children being diagnosed with autism at the age of three, from 20.5% per cent to 6.7%
🔴The intervention involved videoing at-risk babies as they interacted with a parent, before a therapist showed how the child was trying to communicate, so that the parent could respond
🔴Denis Sergeev, a senior military intelligence officer who used the alias Sergey Fedotov, is accused of being part of the team who deployed a deadly nerve agent in an attempt to murder the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia
🚨 Sergeev allegedly carried out the attack alongside his fellow GRU operatives, Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, who were charged by the Crown Prosecution Service under their aliases Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov in September 2018
❌Shoppers face a shortage of meat and even ready-made pizzas long before #Christmas if the carbon dioxide crisis continues, supermarket bosses have warned.
➡️Pork suppliers warned of "farmageddon" within 10 days.