Arbonne and the Crackers
LinkedIn, which if you don’t know it is a sort of sensible version of Facebook that you can get away with using at work, is a great place to get into interesting and informative discussions. Read the rest of this entry »
Parabens References and links
Looking at my web traffic I can see that my 8 posts about the safety of parabens has not been a huge hit with readers. Read the rest of this entry »
Men Are Useless
There is an old philosophical conundrum. If a man says something, and there is no woman around to hear it, is he still wrong? Read the rest of this entry »
Alec Lawless – Artisan Perfumer
In Douglas Adam’s Last Chance to See he describes his long and convoluted trip to see the Komodo Dragon. Read the rest of this entry »
A New Way to lose Weight?
Most people have some idea of what a hormone does. We have lots of hormones that work together in complex ways to keep our bodies working. The overall hormone system is called the endocrine system and its study is called endocrinology. Read the rest of this entry »
Squalane and Squalene
I got into a bit of trouble talking to a young woman in an internet chat room the other day.
Postscript on the King of Shaves Azor Review
Having reviewed the Azor and really liked it, I had a look to see what other reviewers thought of it. To my surprise it had a fairly middling rating on Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »
The Azor from King of Shaves Review
There are about 30 million men in Britain which probably means there are 30 million different ways of shaving. And most of us are completely confused about the technology on the shelves to help us. Read the rest of this entry »
Finally, I have worked out what The Story of Cosmetics is really about
Since I was a teenager in the Seventies, I’ve always regarded myself as a pretty green. Green in the environmental sense that is. Read the rest of this entry »
Do Chemicals in Cosmetics Accumulate in Your Body?
I have spent a lot of time over the last week looking at the coverage of the Story of Cosmetics video in the blogosphere, and sometimes challenging stuff written there. I have to say it wasn’t a particularly productive thing to do. For a start, not many of the things I posted ever appeared. It seems that a lot of them are happy to criticise without having any kind of debate about it. I also noticed that the same things get said time and again, almost as if there is only a small group of people actually writing this stuff. Read the rest of this entry »
