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The numerous different uses of some synthetic ingredients utilized by the cosmetics industry says much about those products, and goes someway into explaining why natural and organic skincare products are now replacing them on our bathroom shelves and dressers Who would have thought, for example, that a compound also used as a propellant for submarines, in the making of glow sticks, as a dye for paper, and as an odour controller in sewerage facilities would ever find its way into a skincare product

North Cyprus, which has been separate from the rest of Cyprus since the Turkish invasion of 1974, is divided from the rest of the island – and, through restrictions on trade and transport, the rest of the international community – in all sorts of ways It was only a couple of years ago that a visit to North Cyprus would necessitate a stopover flight in Turkey, because no other country flew planes into the north of the island