Sleep, Beauty & Self-Care Blog | Tips & Inspiration

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: Inside the Modern Day Sleep Phenomenon

Remember those childhood excuses you used to extend the length of your bedtime? “10 more minutes” and “one last episode” will be familiar lines to everyone’s youth. Although they might...

Waist Training and the Postpartum Comeback

Each woman will have her own special experience of pregnancy and childbirth, and there’s nothing more precious in the world than a new human life, a tiny little baby. As...

The 2:30 Feeling: Secrets to Beating the Midday Slump

Do you ever get that feeling like the height of your afternoon is being chopped down by a wave of unshiftable tiredness and fatigue? Suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere,...

Sun, Sea and Sleep: How To Take Your Sleep With You on Holiday

We’re all going on a summer holiday! We hope that most of you share in our joy that the world feels a little less restricted right now and that our vision...

The Perfect Bedtime Routine To Follow if You’re an Adult

The thought of following a bedtime routine will often conjure up childhood memories of bedtime stories, climbing ladders on bunk beds, and succumbing to lights out even though it was...

The 7 Signs of Exhaustion

The body is capable of doing amazing things when pushed in the right direction, but sometimes when it’s pushed too far with honest intentions that spread life too thinly, the...

Bamboo’s Role in Sustainable Skincare

Skincare forms an important part of self-care, and a clear complexion is what the majority of people strive towards when keeping the face clean. It would only take a quick...

Got Your Back: How To Take Care of the Spine

The highways of the body venture far and wide, serving as vital routes for the hormones and health stimulators that keep the show of life running. But no matter where...

Lymphatic Fantastic: A Tour of the Body’s Wonderful Drainage System

In just the same way as a city needs pipes and drainage systems to carry away its rubbish and waste, so too does the body. The body is a metropolis...

Parasomnias, Somnambulism and the Most Peculiar Sleep State of All

We usually see sleep as the most peaceful part of the day, when the body and everything around it unplugs for a couple of hours. Internal systems seize a valuable...

DST: The Spring Sleep Suppressor No One Sees Coming

It’s a sunny, sleepy March morning and you’ve just woken up from a peaceful night's sleep to a day full of bright beginnings. Your eyes glance over to the time,...

Why Your Yoga Needs A Yoga Mat

There are lots of different types of exercises where it’s ok to work out directly on the floor, but yoga isn’t one of those cases. If you’re a regular yogi,...

Why Taking a Nap Is More Important Than Ever

The ways in which we’re looking after ourselves are vastly different to what they were this time last year. For many, the shifting attitudes around the idea of wellbeing have...

Acupressure: The Ancient Medicine That’s Curing the Woes of Today

The body is a parallel between the things we can see and touch, and the things we can only feel. A human being is so much more than just a...

Best Foot Forward: How To Come Back From an Injury Stronger Than Ever

For every athlete’s high, there’s an athlete’s low, with the brightest achievements being born from moments of intense personal struggle. Of all the metaphorical mountains to conquer on the road...

Why a Healthy Heart Needs Good Sleep

Beating between sixty and one-hundred times a minute, the heart is central to the body’s circulatory system, using a complex and clever network of veins and arteries to deliver oxygenrich...

Head Start: How To Wake Up Feeling Fresh and Ready To Go

If you regularly wake up in the morning feeling like you’re ready to go back to bed, you’ve come to the right place. Today, in the dawn of a promising...

Keep It Cool: How to Stress Less This Christmas

The year is just reaching its close, and as the sound of jolly celebrations and ever-familiar Michael Bublé continues to permeate the cold winter chill, the festive buzz is well...

Unwrapping SMUG’s Highly-Anticipated Christmas Collection

With the big day just around the corner, we thought that it’s about high time that we give our brand spanking new SMUGmas Christmas collection the introduction it deserves. After...

Restless Legs Syndrome and Other Sleep Disorders We Need to Talk About

For something that’s so integral to human existence, modern science has only scratched the surface in their understanding of sleep. What we don’t know far surpasses that of which we’re...

The Best Ways To Look After Your Hair This Winter

The harsh, unforgiving winter weather grapples its icy claws around everything in its path, and just as the skin experiences seasonal dryness, so too do precious locks of hair. For...

How Good Sleep Can Save Your Posture

The importance of good posture is difficult to overstate. The body works best when it’s properly aligned, and is especially important to the health of the spine. It allows for...

Why It’s Important To Do Breathing Exercises and How You Can Do Them

As one of the body’s most natural processes, breathing announces the rhythm and state of a person’s being. Whether they’re feeling anxious, confident, happy or sad, all immediate changes can...

What Would Happen if You Didn’t Drink Any Water?

Depending on age, gender and BMI, the human body is made up of around 60% water. It’s everywhere, in each and every one of our cells. Both the brain and...