Category: Health
When I first started investing my time and money into establishing a solid skin care routine, I had absolutely no idea that my most valued product would be my moisturizing SPF spray. Not my cleansers, toners or exfoliating masks, nor my A and B vitamin serums. And no, not even my beloved Jour Gelée Payot […]
Holding the title of Skin Cancer Capital of the World is one gong our sunshine state could do without, yet it has done so for several years and will be hard to shake without major effort. In Queensland, more than 3,600 people are estimated to be diagnosed with melanoma each year and the Sunshine Coast […]
Understanding melanoma Melanoma is a familiar word to most Australians. But it’s only when melanoma directly impacts our lives that we begin to understand the seriousness of this type of skin cancer. Unfortunately, Australia has the highest incidence of melanoma in the world. On average, 30 Australians will be diagnosed with melanoma every day and […]
A tiny spot on our skin can be hiding a mean and deadly secret beneath: Melanoma, one of the most aggressive forms of cancer of all types. Sunshine Coast, Kawana resident, 47 year old Leanne Weyer, never imagined that a small mole on her shoulder could be rapidly spreading cancer inside. In 2015, the mole […]
We live in Queensland, by the ocean and are blessed with 25 degrees Celsius, warm sunny weather most of the year. Kids are playing outdoors and we want to help keep the littles ones protected. The ‘Fit Kids Festival’ ran over the Australia Day weekend at the new Stockland Shopping Centre. The bakslap team were […]
When I was given the opportunity to do an exchange semester abroad, I had a place in mind that I wanted to go…It was somewhere as far from home as possible and a place that would stay warm and sunny for most parts of the year. Just like that I’d found that place and began […]
We’re a social enterprise created to reduce melanoma skin cancer rates globally. As founder, I’m in my 30’s and for the first part of my professional career I understood ‘what’ I was doing, but I was unsure of ‘why’? It was the tragedy of losing my sister Tess to melanoma cancer in 2012 that I […]