EDTA turns up near the bottom of the ingredient lists of lots of different personal care products. You also see disodium EDTA and tetrasodium EDTA. For all intents and purposes these are the same – they are just different ways of delivering the same thing.
Lilliana is wondering about her heat protection spray’s ingredients. Hi Colin, I suddenly decided to change my heat protection spray. However, this slightly more expensive product (I usually use Tresemme) doesn’t have any of the wheat protein ingredients of which I know they actually do protect my hair from heat. Is this my latest impulse
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I have decided to throw my hat into the ring and chance my arm as consultant. Giving up the regular monthly salary is a scary prospect, but I am looking forward to the challenge. In particular I am hoping to spend more time doing what I most enjoy, which is getting about and meeting people.
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BB creams have taken the beauty world by storm over the last two years. Are the consumers demanding what they want from the industry? Or is this marketing people cunningly foisting a trend on an easily led public? There is certainly a lot of interest in them as this graph from Google Trends shows.
Researching my recent post on Michelle Phan I came across one of her videos where she explains how you can make your own product to treat cellulite from coffee grouts. Well having christened her the most influential person in the cosmetic business I have to take issue with that one. I think this is what they
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I spend a lot of time on this blog pointing out the shortcomings of scaremongers who delight in trying to suggest that there is something wrong with the cosmetics that everyone uses every day.
Who is the most influential person in the beauty world? Well I am working on it, but it isn’t me yet. It is hard to work this kind of thing out. I started considering job roles like the head of L’Oréal or the editor of Vogue. But without resorting to Google I don’t know their
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This isn’t a blog about politics or economics. (Just as well in the case of the latter – I can’t even work out my electric bill let alone decide whether Thatcherism was good or bad for the country.) So I don’t have anything to say about most of the controversy surrounding her. But I feel
Ambergris is really one of the weirdest ingredients used in the cosmetics industry. It is a foul smelling substance that is from time to time washed up on beaches around the world. It was in the news in the UK back in February when a man called Ken Whitman found a huge chunk of it
We don’t pay a lot of attention to vellus hair. This is the fine downy hair that covers a lot of our body, with the exception of the palms of our hands and for some reason, the backs of our ears. It isn’t very visible so the beauty world doesn’t take a lot of notice
