I get a lot of traffic to this blog from people interested in methylisothiazolinone, or as it is now known MI. For people who haven’t been following the story, here’s a quick recap. MI has been used for about 40 years in combination with a closely related chemical called methylchloroisothiazolinone. I’ll call that MCI. […]
The second highest selling personal care product in the UK at the moment is Olay Regenerist Daily 3 Point Treatment Cream. (The top seller is Bio-Oil, but I have already done that one.) Users are giving it pretty good reviews, and if Olay are stuffing the reviews with fake positive ones they are doing it
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A question from Junie Hi My doctor whi is also a dermatologist says I have dermatitis. On my face and eye lids, the cream he gave me made it worse, the next cream he suggested I refused as it contained steroid, which I am told it should not be put on eyelids. Please can you
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People are living longer, which means that there are more older people around. Consequently the problems that older people suffer from are now affecting more and more people. One of those problems is aching joints, and any product that brings relief from them is going to get a lot of takers. But how good are
Based on a totally unscientific sample of people whose opinion of Jasmine I happen to know, it is a very polarising smell and is one that appeals to men more than women. That many people don’t particularly like the smell is a bit unfortunate given the trouble that has to be gone to to obtain
If you like scented candles and you like trivial facts, you will love this post. It is five trivial facts about candles.
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Not being in the news is usually a sign that things are going okay, and the ASEAN group of countries are rarely on the front pages. I wonder sometimes how many people in the EU even realise that there is a comparable organisation in South East Asia. If they aren’t it is because the
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The dudes at the Beauty Brains tweeted a link to an article in the Huffington Post in which the American cosmetic industry was accused of acting in an untrustworthy manner over the issue of reforms to the cosmetic industry. What is going on?
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There was a lot of interest in hypoallergenic products back in the eighties when I first started as a formulator. Back then the perception was that natural ingredients were the problem. Like a lot of popular ideas it corresponded to prejudice rather than evidence. But few of us, scientists included, trouble to check our beliefs
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Neroli is an essential oil made from the petals of the bitter orange. The amount of oil in a petal isn’t very high so it takes a lot of them to make much oil. So it isn’t surprising to learn that the use of neroli oil was originated by an aristocrat. The production and use
