When the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown happened back in March, we hastily left our offices and went home. One day, we were all working together in office spaces and meeting rooms, and the next we were frantically throwing together slap-up home offices on kitchen tables and in unused corners of our homes. Although many are still…
2020 has been a tumultuous year. However, it’s nearly over now, and with the vaccine being dished out across the UK and other parts of the world, everyone’s hopeful that the end is now in sight and we can start going back to life as we once knew it. Despite the vaccine and the hope…
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2020 was a tumultuous year shaped almost entirely by the coronavirus and the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. What was largely ignored and laughed off as nothing more than the flu in January and February of this year very quickly changed our entire world. As cases rose and many countries enforced full national coronavirus lockdowns, the…
A long, long time ago, humans discovered that it was possible to combine animal fat with alkaline salts or ash to create what we now know as soap. And this combination did a great job of cleaning. Some of the earliest recorded evidence of soap use dates back to before 2,000 B.C. in the Middle…
Now that hand sanitiser has become as regular a part of our day as eating dinner, brushing our teeth, and, well, breathing, there’s no doubt that you’ll be getting through bottles upon bottles of the stuff. And as with anything that comes out of nowhere to the front of peoples’ minds, lots of questions, scepticism,…
During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, cleaning your hands regularly and correctly is essential not just for your own health and wellbeing, but everyone else’s too. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), everyone should regularly and thoroughly clean their hands with soap and water, or if that is not available, an alcohol-based hand sanitiser (or…
On Saturday, October 31, Boris Johnson announced the second set of national lockdown restrictions due to come into force the following Thursday, November 4. Introduced to combat rapidly rising cases of COVID-19 up and down the country, the restrictions place us back into a situation largely similar to that in March, with the exception…
Hygiene has always been critical to survival. From ancient civilisations to our world today, it has played a vital role in preventing the spread of infection and disease. Indeed, in our modern world that’s currently being ravaged by coronavirus, hygiene plays a critical role in health and wellbeing. Unfortunately, however, it’s easy to become complacent…
Whenever new lockdown rules and restrictions come into force, there are always plenty of questions about what they mean, how they work, and who they apply to. This is equally true of one of the latest lockdown-related rules introduced on Monday, September 14th, the so-called “rule of six” which means that people can’t meet up…
Our hands are dirty. It’s a fact of life. You touch hundreds of different surfaces every day, all of which contain their own range of nasty germs and bugs. But more often than not, people write this information off as scaremongering when in actual fact, our hands are actually really, really disgusting. Fortunately, the ongoing…
