I’ve had this Genealogy of Perfumes in my papers since I picked it up in the eighties. It was produced by a big fragrance house called Haarman and Reimer. It has always been something I have found interesting. I have had it stuck on the wall of labs I’ve worked in at times.
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Rosemary improves memory according to data presented at a meeting of the British Psychological Society. The study involved memory tests on 60 subjects in a room filled with the scent of rosemary. The scent helped.
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Cetrimonium Chloride is the mainstay of hair conditioners. It works in a very simple way. Damaged hair has an electric charge. This is why you get flyway hair. The hair shafts are literally repelling one another. Conditioners work by neutralising that charge and replacing it with a lubricious layer of loveliness.
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Rosacea is a condition where the skin turns red for prolonged periods of time. It is most common in fair skinned people – largely because it is more noticeable. It also more common in women, though possibly because they take more notice of their skin. And it mainly strikes between the ages of 20 and
Another cosmetic company has announced that they are not going to operate in China because of its policy towards animal testing. This time it is Korean company Aromatica. There hasn’t exactly been a huge number of companies taking the same stance yet. Most of them seem to be taking the view that any bad
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I get a lot of people arriving at this blog looking for information about triisononanoin. I think the main reason is it used in Bio-Oil which always seems to generate interest. Who wouldn’t be curious about a cosmetic ingredient with such a strange name? It would be great if the ingredient itself were equally
When you are developing new products it is very easy to mess them up. I think more disasters are caused by spoiling good ideas than by trying to get a bad idea to work. Here are a few ways to convert soaring swans into frumpy turkeys.
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