Water works, celeb style
Celebrities are always keen to flaunt their green credentials, but Cate Blanchett may just be the real deal. In an interview with the renowned W magazine, the writer notes that Blanchett and her husband "are trying to make the ecological footprint of their home as small as possible, installing solar panels and even a filtration system that will allow them to drink their own wastewater". If that's not going the extra mile, I don't know what is ...
Well, they are trying, that’s all we can say.

Smooth talking
US company Nair has just launched Nair Pretty, a hair-removal product that comes in peach and kiwi scents, and is aimed at 10- to 15-year-olds.

According to one of the company's research directors, this came about after focus groups showed teens were having "hair removal slumber parties" - which, frankly, sound a hell of a lot less fun than the "cake and a scary movie" sleepovers we had when I was a kid. And the advertisement copy is distinctly strange.

“I am a citizen of the world," it reads. "I am a dreamer. I am fresh. I am so not going to have stubs sticking out of my legs." Don't you just love it when a company tries to equate youthful idealism and depilation?

The Guardian