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Antonia and Jonny Philp worked tirelessly to create a hand cream that helps our nation’s NHS professionals and is commercially successful (they promise to give a month’s worth of free hand cream to a nurse or midwife with every purchase). Hear

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Ruby Hammer MBE, beauty entrepreneur, on the beauty of embracing ageing and who we are

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