I have written a couple of times about products promoted as gluten free. Framed like that, for the vast majority of people they are completely pointless. Unless you know you have a specific problem with gluten there is no reason to seek out gluten free products. But another way of looking at this is to […]
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A friend of mine has a premium lipstick they use for serious socialising, and a cheaper workaday one that is good enough for when they are seeing less important people like me. She hit on a whizzo wheeze of melting the small amount left in the bottom of the pricey one and pouring it onto
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Water is just as much an ingredient as any other in personal care products. Yes it is cheap, and yes the more water you put into a formulation the lower your costs will be. But in all but the cheapest of products this is hardly a consideration. You put in the amount of water you
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After the huge success of BB creams a lot of attention has been given to the rest of the alphabet. We still don’t know what the next combination to take the industry by storm will be. A lot of us thought that the trend would stick with consonants, but there has been interest in vowels
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The big show of the year for cosmetic formulators and other people at the sharp end of cosmetic development is SCS Formulate, organised by the Society of Cosmetic Scientists. It will be held as usual at the Ricoh Conference Centre in Coventry on the 11th and 12th of November. I go most years and feel
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I have been meaning to do a post for a while now with a comprehensive list of all the great online beauty resources that are available to the beauty enthusiast who wants to dig a bit deeper. I still have that one on my list. To get started I had a look at my browser
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We all see a lot of adverts and most of us do our best to ignore them. Somebody who is trying to sell you something is rarely a source of useful information. But just how far do advertisers go in stretching the truth? I don’t think that big name companies are exactly pure in
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Who is the most popular chemist? Avogadro. Everyone knows his number. Okay it is a corny joke, and it is also probably a bit baffling if you have never heard of Avogadro’s number. It is one of those things that sounds a bit dry if you describe it in purely technical terms, but which is
Facial masks have been around for ages, and are popular enough to get stocked in supermarkets in the UK. But they are still exotic enough that you can’t assume people know what they are. The idea of putting a clothe soaked with a fluid on your face and leaving it there for about 20 minutes
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I used to think about things in boxes when I was at school. There was chemistry, biology and gym. I didn’t really think much about the connections between them. But these subject headings we learn are not real. All the time your body is doing all sorts of exercise and there are processes
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