Filmmaker Phyllis Ellis hopes to send you scrambling to the shower to search out labels on your soap and shampoo. After all, her eye-opening documentary Toxic Beauty (trailer below; streaming now on CBC Gem) not only follows the class-action suit against Johnson & Johnson—and the company’s cancer-linked baby powder—but Ellis also uncovers an unregulated amalgam […]
Bradshaw Pure Esthetics
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Bradshaw Pure Esthetics makes a move
After seven years in its Birmingham Street space, Bradshaw Pure Esthetics is moving to a new home. As of October 1 you’ll find Diana Bradshaw‘s holistic spa and its skin care and spa services—as well as Emily Lutz’s Curative Massage—two doors up at 1556 Queen Street, above James Bradshaw Goldsmith, her father’s design studio. Bradshaw […]
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Beauty clean
Halifax Seed 5860 Kane Street, 454-7456 All Ways Us Bath Bomb It’s amazing how much a little cube can change your tub-time experience. These hand-crafted bath bombs are made using natural ingredients and packaged using eco-friendly materials. Talk about clean. Pete’s Frootique 1515 Dresden Row, novascotiafisherman.com Nova Scotia Fisherman Soap This hand-poured bar is 100 […]
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Best Esthetician
Another win for Angela Bishop as Best aesthetician, representing Remedy with her skills now for a decade—she started as an employee and now is the owner of the place—and continuing to earn the loyalty of her clients. And keep in mind if you’ve never visited Remedy, they carry quality skincare products including Dermalogica, caters to […]
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Best Esthetician
We couldn’t speak to Angela Bishop directly because she was on her honeymoon—congratulations!—but we did speak to Remedy Spa manager Nicola Hancock, who described Bishop as “friendly and really good with clients.” Bishop has been at Remedy for eight years, plenty of time to build a loyal following, clients that have become her friends over […]