A question from my first Twitter chum, Musicalhouses. Dear Colin, How can we guess how much retinol there is in a skincare product? It’s quite hard to get a percentage ge since companies don’t disclose this. In particular, I’m looking at the Hada Labo Retinol Lifting and Firming Lotion (Ingredients: water, butylene glycol, glycerine, PEG-20 […]
I have been doing a safety assessment and I needed to estimate how much nail varnish you apply. I assumed that somewhere there was some kind of official guidance on this figure published by, say, the Nail Varnish Marketing board or something. Google rarely lets you down on this kind of thing, but I could
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A regular feature on the calendar of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists is the Southern Educational Event held this year on the 6th of June at the London College of Fashion. The first speaker was former president of the society Dene Godfrey who was talking on a subject that he has basically made his own.
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There are quite a few ways to give your skincare product some personality. You can have a unique active. You can have a particular geographical location. You can be endorsed by a celebrity. Salix Alba ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to this. It boasts a natural source of salicin. It comes
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In March 2011 an accident at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan led to a release of radioactive elements into the atmosphere. A few days later, these unique elements were detected in Oxford in the UK. Given that Japan and the UK are on opposite sides of the earth, that accident must have filled the
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My favourite book is Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It is a phenomenal piece of work that spans the period of time from the reign of the artful emperor Augustus across 15 centuries until the final fall of the last remaining fragment of the state he founded. It was a book
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There was a story in the papers this weekend that someone is suing Rihanna because she caught herpes from a sample of her lipstick given away at a concert. Before I get onto the main point, I find it interesting that this kind of promotion goes on in the first place. It does make sense.
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