This is the first blog post in our series of meeting the makers of our beautiful products. First up is the lovely Rikita Kapadia, founder of Cocovít, a company based in the USA. Cocovít sources organic coconuts from India to use in the production of their pure coconut oil-based products. Welcome! Please introduce yourself. Hello, my name is Riki...

There seems to be so much hype around detoxing these days. It feels like there is always some new ‘detox diet’ being touted online, or some far out cleanse, a ‘reset’ programme, a 'tea-tox' or some intermittent fast to ‘clean out’ the system. (As uni students, many years ago now, there was the detox that was done before a re-tox, but let’s not d...

First it was ‘clean eating’ that was all the rage, and now we have ‘clean beauty’ as the buzzword that keeps popping up everywhere. From supermarket shelves to department store counters, there is no denying there is a ‘clean’ revolution happening. Many brands are jumping on the bandwagon and ‘green-ing’ their image and formulations. I have to co...