A great many cosmetic products nowadays contain plant extracts of one kind or another. I think the first product that really captured the imagination of the public with this approach was the shampoo Timotei. When it was first launched it was advertised by a slim blond woman who was pictured wandering dreamily around a field […]
Before I whizzed off to Professional Beauty I picked up an e-mail from an American friend about an article in the Huffington Post. This was an even more ludicrous than usual story about toxic chemicals in cosmetics.
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Working in a lab you often get people describing you as a mad scientist. It’s hilarious every time and never ceases to be funny. But just too make sure that nobody thinks that scientists are really mad I have prepared a diagram that explains the true situation. Basically there are a lot of people some
One of the things you have to bear in mind when you are developing men’s products is that a lot of them are bought by women for men. Or for themselves. There is probably a marketing term for it. Cross gender sales drift or something. It reflects the fact that women are just a lot
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The French word for glue is col. Think of a collage, a picture made up of lots of other pictures glued together -that’s where it gets its name from. The name for collagen comes from the same root as well. It is the glue that holds the skin together. What it actually is is a
Glycerol, propylene glycol and hyaluronic acid are all good moisturisers, but this why I prefer glycerol.
British Beauty Blogger is posing an interesting problem over on her blog at the moment. Can you be both a blogger and a journalist?
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(See http://colinsbeautypages.co.uk/book-review-silent-spring-part-1/ for the first part of this review) Silent Spring is sometimes described as the book that started the environmental movement. This is an extravagant claim but it really is remarkable the extent to which so many things that trouble us today are already there in its pages.
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Are the slim models in the magazines and on the television distorting your view of yourself and making you fat?
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(See http://colinsbeautypages.co.uk/book-review-silent-spring-part-1/ for the first part of this review) Listen to one of the many stories detailed in Silent Spring. It started in 1949 at a fishing reserve called Clear Lake in America. This was a project undertaken with great care. The object was to get rid of the gnats that were troubling fishermen. A
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