Archive for December, 2008

Triclosan

You might have seen the name triclosan on your toothpaste tube or even remember it being mentioned in adverts.  It is an anti-bacterial agent made by the Swiss company Ciba-Giegy, and has been used since the seventies in a wide range of products like baby creams and bath additives, toothpaste and washing up liquids.  The [...]

Beauty Products and the Credit Crunch

They say that a mild recession is when you hear about people losing their jobs, a major recession is when people you know lose their jobs and a depression is when you lose your own job. Well I haven’t lost my job yet and I don’t see any more reason to think they might sack [...]

Beautytweets

I am now on Twitter, so if you want to follow my Beautytweets just follow me here.  If you don’t know what I am going on about then ask one of your cooler friends to tell you all about Twitter, or sign up for it at http://twitter.com. 
Once you have got the hang of it [...]

Miscreants who Moisturise

It is easy to get depressed with all the bad news in the papers and on the telly, so it is good to hear of a case where a wrong is righted and justice prevails. In the past women in German prisons were allowed to spend more on cosmetics than male ones.
A prisoner has challenged [...]

Best of Category Product Lists

Regular readers of this blog will probably be surprised that I am about to start a new initiative when I am so obviously half way through several others.  But there is a reason to this madness as I will explain.
I have decided that I am going to chose the product in each category of cosmetic [...]