Lush really are the enfant terrible of the British cosmetic industry. Their latest attention seeking wheeze is to put on a display in one of their shop windows in London where an actress is supposedly put through the same kinds of things that animals in research labs have to endure. An attractive young actress as [...]
Samantha Brick may have been deluded, but she wasn’t the only one.
Some interesting things I picked up at the Natural and Organic Products show at Olympia.
I have been hanging back on story about Avon losing its animal free status with the BUAV, the society that campaigns against the use of animals in scientific experiments. I wanted to read the ASA’s actual adjudication first, but I have just realised that Avon have not contested it so there won’t be one. Avon [...]
My rant about No More Dirty Looks, a blog I particularly dislike.
“This morning the L’Oreal Ambassador, Mr Hugh Laurie, handed Gillette a final note stating that, unless we hear from them by 11 o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their Gillette Series Senstive Skin Gel from the top shelf at the supermarket, a state of war would exist between us. I [...]
Before I whizzed off to Professional Beauty I picked up an e-mail from an American friend about an article in the Huffington Post. This was an even more ludicrous than usual story about toxic chemicals in cosmetics.
Not really the sort of thing I normally cover on this blog, but it caught my eye. A film is being made about Coco Chanel. Coco Chanel is famous both for her innovations in style and couture and for being one of the very few major fashion designers of the twentieth century who liked going [...]
www.nvwah.com is a new website set up by a biochemist to share her chemical knowledge by applying it to cosmetic formulations. The site looks very good but it is very new so although it has lots of products on it already most of the descriptions are very short. So what is it? Basically it is [...]
I remember being really surprised the first time I got a press pack sent to me by a PR company as a result of this blog. You type away on your keyboard in familiar surroundings and it is easy to forget that other people read what you write. When you get professional attention it is [...]