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...
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...
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,...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
