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Eating Well During Cancer Treatment

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Eating Well During Cancer Treatment

Research evidence shows that people who are well nourished tolerate their cancer treatments better and are at lower risk of developing complicatio...

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Yoga For Cancer Patients

In the yoga tradition Master Patanjali is a very important figure as he was the first person to summarise in 196 aphorisms – the Yoga Sutras (c.ca ...

depression from the diagnosis

An Introduction to Exercise

To most people the idea of taking part in exercise means getting sweaty and out of breath, with a pumping heart rate, lots of hard work, and feeli...

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Wound Healing

Natural Therapies, Hints and Tips - Wound Healing It was hard to separate skincare from nutrition when I was asked to write some hints and tips fo...

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My Hands Are Human Again – No Pockets Needed

As if being diagnosed and treated for Womb Cancer wasn’t bad enough, Debra Parry, 53, discovered that her skin suffered enormously as a result. Deb...

dry skin

A friend recommended Defiant Beauty Lip Balm. The improvement was incredible.

Sally, 43, has been hit by a double whammy – extremely sensitive skin and a tendency to get cold after cold through the winter. As we all know, con...

Help & Advice

10 Reasons to Cleanse

I am often asked about skincare routines and the best way to look after skin. We all know that everyone is unique and there are many different skin...

serum

What is a skincare routine? Step 3 - Treat

Cleanse, tone, treat and moisturise -are you beginning to get the picture? We have covered cleanse and tone in our previous two blogs and now it is...

dry skin

How can I help my radiation - damaged skin? I need to soothe it but don't know what I can use.

Radiation damaged skin is often described as ‘really bad sunburn’. When I have suffered sunburn I wanted to put soothing oils or gels on my skin ...

cancer treatment

What should you look for in skincare products?

What makes Defiant Beauty different? Defiant Beauty was created at the request of some of the lovely people at our local hospital, boy, were they s...

aging skin

Why Does Cancer Treatment Affect Appearance and Skin?

When asked ‘why does cancer treatment affect appearance and skin?’ I was surprised to discover that my answer was so much more than ‘chemotherapy d...

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Skincare routine - Exfoliation

Did you think we had forgotten? How could anyone forget exfoliation? It is just as important as the other four steps, but more so, if beauty thera...

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Thriving despite a diagnosis by Gail Donnan Part 2

This is the second of a three part blog which moves through a beautiful cancer survivor’s journey of how she thrives and continues to build resilie...