Beauty journalism has evolved massively over the past 70 years a google and comb through online archives is proof of how perspectives change. Case in point: US Vogue, February 1962’s report on ‘How to use a boat as a beauty treatment’. No one’s denying the power of the briny scent of salt in the air when it comes to enlivening the senses ... It’s just that now we know a stint at sea leaves one with straw-like stressed strands, a mottled complexion, lizard limbs and perhaps even promoting the dreaded skin cancer. Boats and beauty don’t go together. End of story.
That said, the reality of Australian life is that the beach is our backyard. And with the fingerprint of climate change revealing itself through more intense heatwaves and volatile weather patterns, we’re experiencing summers on steroids. Our products now not only have to be built in a certain way to withstand seasonal changes (meaning eau de
