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It is a pretty safe bet to declare that there will be new beauty products online in 2018. The beauty business is forever coming up with new creams and applications to sell more product to their predominantly female customers. Beauty is one of those intangible essentials, which sits at the top of the most important list for women in the world. We are determined by our biological imperatives and we shy away from acknowledging it. The need for the species to keep on procreating is paramount. Concepts like beauty and love are dependent upon the chemical mystery happening inside all of us.

Technological Innovations in Beauty Creams

Technological innovations are happening in the cosmetics industry all the time. New glitters and gloss, mega lashes and microbladed brows are not the stuff of Blade Runner, but shimmering at the glamour desk inside a department store near you. However, more and more consumers are purchasing their beauty products online in 2018. Retail figures show that online is up some 60% compared to bricks and mortar store sales. How about cruelty free beauty products this year? What is new in this neck of the woods? Cruelty free and vegan cosmetics are available online.

Cruelty Free Cosmetics are Becoming Increasingly Popular

Check this out to see a top-quality brand of cruelty free cosmetics available online in Australia. These products do not suffer from any drop off in quality. The only drop off is in the suffering experienced by some innocent animal in the production of a beauty cream. Some women have suffered from being thought vacuous in their search for beauty in a bottle or tub of fat, but conscious consumerism is ending that slur on their character. You can, now, maintain the health of your skin without hurting or harming animals via animal testing.

New & Safe Makeup Products Available Online

New beauty products online in 2018, include Eye of Horus Cosmetics and their stunning range of shadow palettes. There are great creams for skin care, lip glosses, blushes, and more, all available online for easy purchasing. The websites show and tell their customers what these great products look like and contain. You can be assured, more than ever before, about what you are buying and how it was made. Women want to know what went into the cosmetics and skin care products they use. No more secrets please!

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Ordering in at home has become a lot easier via menus on mobile apps. The takeaway and delivery of food from restaurants and cafes has become big business in Australia, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. Menus on mobile apps are making dollars for their masters in 2018. The convenience of being able to, just, pick up your phone or tablet and choose from a wide selection of cuisines is pretty cool. Now, ordering food from your favourite eatery is at the touch of a screen. Considering how many other major hassles there are living in a big city, it is great that this is not one of them.

Dark Kitchens Filling a Need

In fact, according to the latest reports, there are ‘dark kitchens’ specifically opening to service the demand from these menu app services. Dark kitchens are restaurants without tables and chairs, or home delivery food outlets only. Deliveroo in Melbourne are building dark kitchens to fill the gaps in what customers want from their service. If restaurants don’t exist in a certain area, they will build a dark kitchen to service that need. Delivery services totalled some $1.5 billion worth or orders in 2017.

Some Restaurants Balking at Charges

Menulog, Foodora, Deliveroo and Uber Eats must be the main players in the market. There have been a number of high profile restaurants withdrawing themselves from these delivery services in protest at the high margins they charge. Menulog does take a lower commission on orders than Uber Eats, but that is because restaurants usually have to deliver the food themselves. Menulog has recently introduced an in-house delivery option. However, these menus on mobile apps are making dollars for their corporate masters. Convenience is king, when it comes to innovations in the city. Time poor denizens of the city are willing to pay for a service which provides great meals as an alternative to cooking at home.

Good Food for More Australians, More Often

Click here to see an online menu from a fine Sydney catering company. They may not have an app but they provide exceptional food for all sorts of celebrations, occasions and situations. Communication and technology are increasingly at the forefront of innovations happening within the food industry in Australia and around the globe.  Good food is getting better for more people in this country, if you live in the main cities. These apps are dependent upon high density populations to make them cost effective.

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There are plenty of apps on our phones in 2018, so, what are the hot healthcare apps in the market? Can the apps on our phones really make a difference to our state of health? There are apps to keep our brains sharp in the hope that we can delay the onset of dementia, especially the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease. There are apps designed to help us eat healthier foods. Plus, there are apps to assist those living with diabetes. There are, also, cancer apps to help with those conditions. In addition, there are apps for mental health and apps to deter suicide. Here are some of those healthcare apps in review.

Popular Healthy Apps

The most popular healthcare apps are those that tell us what diseases we may have from the symptoms we have. WebMD Mobile provides a free service like this for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Instant Heart Rate is pretty cool too, as it lets you use the camera in your phone to detect your pulse by placing your index finger over the lens. It beeps with every heart beat and charts your heart rate in a graph. Eyexam can let you know how good your vision is via app tests.

New Online Technologies

The online presence of dentists shows a greater embrace of new technologies. See this for yourself here in this Melbourne dental clinic example. The iBreastcheck is another app, which allows consumers to download a video showing how to correctly check your breasts for tumours.  An iPeriod Menstrual Calendar helps you keep track of your menstrual cycle. There is a Stress Check app, which can rate your stress levels according to  a chart developed by clinical psychologists. Meditation is recommended to help reduce stress levels and these kinds of apps are proving popular as well.

Apps Need Assistance from Human Beings to be Effective

There are some negative results regarding the effectiveness of these kinds of apps for healthcare and a few experts have published their poor reviews online. A Bond University study found disappointing results in regard to the testing of these apps and their health claims. Weight loss apps in particular have been shown to be less than effective, when used in isolation. Fitness apps, similarly, were unlikely to help consumers, when not used in conjunction with a fitness program or personal trainer. These apps are far more constructive if they are employed in conjunction with a hands-on service.

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It is an exciting time for home chefs and catering professionals, with more and more technology appearing in the kitchen. There are refrigerators with video monitors on their doors, and computers inside them, telling cooks what is inside them and the use by date of the produce. Home chefs can look up recipes online and/or order necessary ingredients. It is a great use of space in the kitchen and a smart combination of appliance and digital device. You can have a large digital time display, which can act as an alarm for the precise cooking of particular dishes as well.

Technology in the Kitchen

Digital technology is impacting positively in today’s kitchen. Delicate cooking of ingredients like fresh fish can be done in cryovaced pouches, which are then steamed or poached at high speeds. There are ovens that have multiple types of cooking functions, which include steaming, poaching and turbo charged convection heating. Thermomixs are popular in both domestic and commercial settings, because they control the process and can be set and forgotten. The blast chiller and the cook chill system is another technological shift that is capturing the imagination of chefs in the twenty first century.

Infrared cooking has started to become the new buzz in culinary technology, especially for grilling. This radiant heat form of cooking generates much higher temperatures far more quickly. 370 degrees Celsius in just 7 minutes., which means searing meat, locking in the juices and after a short rest – super tender flesh. This is fast cooking and very suitable for commercial requirements. Super-duper home barbeques in the US are, now, featuring Infrared Grills. The BBQ has become a new outdoor kitchen, in many ways, as it is a cooking appliance with heaps of bells and whistles.

Technology through the smartphone allows home chefs to easily set up a kitchen renovation online. You can browse through thousands of images of incredible kitchen designs and pick and choose the elements which grab you. Kitchens are the new black and continue to be the most renovated room in the house, right around the globe. Kitchen make-overs are very affordable these days, as well. There really is no excuse for having a dysfunctional kitchen in your home in 2017. Cooking is fun if you have a groovy, well-appointed and designed kitchen in which to cook up a storm or two. Get some terrific technology in your kitchen and the sky is the limit, when it comes to brilliantly prepared meals at home.

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