If you are sensitive to sugar, avoid using artificial sweeteners and saccharin as a substitute if you are chemically sensitive. The chemicals used can cause reactions. Some people react to sugars in any form (including honey and maple sugar and syrup) irrespective of the food from which it is derived. Other people can tolerate sugar [...]
The Sniff Test
Sniff any product gently before buying to see if it upsets you. You can sniff fabrics, clothing or footwear as well as cosmetics and other products. If you find the smell distasteful or it gives you strong symptoms, do not buy it. If you find the smell peculiarly alluring, even addictive, this is [...]
The most reliable way to detect if cosmetics and skincare products are causing you problems is to stop using them altogether for at least one week and see if any improvement results. During that period, use only the minimum of basic personal hygiene products (>PERSONAL HYGIENE). Put the things you regularly use away in a [...]
Fillers
There are various kinds of fillers. Two basic kinds are reasonably trouble-free – acrylic fillers used to fill gaps and cracks, providing ahard surface once §et, and cellulose fillers used to fill finer holes, providing a less hard surface.
Acrylic fillers can give off fumes on use and can cause sensitivity at the time, but do [...]
Allergy to nickel is widespread and well documented. It is particularly associated with causing contact dermatitis – sometimes at sites remote from the spot where nickel has touched the skin. This can complicate diagnosis, but as nickel allergy is reliably detected by patch testing, it can be quickly identified as a cause of remote reactions.
It [...]
By ‘natural’ we mean the absence of pills, potions and devices. Several methods are available. They are all best regarded as inefficient for the woman who is determined not to get pregnant, but they are useful for the couple who is not too worried about having another baby or for those who are really meticulous [...]
It has become fashionable in recent years to talk about people’s sexual problems as if we were being afflicted by a new epidemic. To some extent we may today be in the throes of a period of more prevalent sexual dysfunctioning but on the other hand, because of the publicity sexual problems now receive, people [...]
What is copulation? The word is the scientific term used to describe the act of putting the penis in the vagina. As any penis will go into any vagina there is nothing very special about being able to copulate. Any man who can have an erection and any woman who can open her legs can [...]
Divorce rates have been increasing since the end of World War II — as divorce laws have eased. The rate increased by three times in Britain between 1965 and 1975 and by two and a half times in the US over the same period. The troubles that wreck marriages, it has been found, usually start [...]
The main feature of wife battering is that the husband thinks he is unable to control certain issues in the home without resorting to violence. Such a man is usually a poor employee, poor partner, earns little and supports the family very inadequately. All of these are interlinked, of course, and an improvement in any [...]