Colin

I am a formulation scientist, inventor, manager, beauty blogger, beauty futurologist, science communicator and environmentalist. Biggest achievements to date - Conceiving and formulating one of the top selling pharmaceutical scalp treatment shampoos. Organising the first two Formulate trade shows, now a key feature of the UK cosmetic industry's year. Starting Colin's Beauty Pages, the UK's main blog devoted to cosmetic science and other health and beauty matters. Elected as a Fellow of the Society of Biology 1st October 2013. Specialties: Formulation development, science communication, cosmetic regulatory compliance, rheology, experimental design, finding odd connections between things that nobody else has noticed.I am a formulat

How Can An Anti-Ageing Collagen Tea Work?

Should we be drinking anti-aging collagen tea? That’s the question I was asking myself having seen a supplier of specialist supplement materials suggesting that we should take them up on exactly that proposition. Collagen is one of the longest standing cosmetic buzzwords and it has been turning up on ingredient lists, in marketing copy and

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Your Shampoo Bottle Isn’t Going To Make You Fat, and Don’t Get Health and Beauty Information from the Daily Mail

In an ideal world the Daily Mail’s credibility as an information source should have been lost forever as a result of their role in undermining measles vaccinations back in the late 1990s. But we don’t live in an ideal world and the Mail remains one of the most important platforms where people find out about

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Scoop on the Gloop – Olay Total Effects Anti-Ageing Moisturiser And Serum Duo SPF 20

We’ve just started a new series of videos where we have a look at beauty products and their ingredients and say what we think of them. If you’ve got a product you are interested in let us know in the comments below. Let us know what attracted you to the product in the first place,

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