A Cosmetic Scientist Asks Should I Start A Beauty Blog? Six Reasons You Should
Someone just starting out as a cosmetic scientist has asked me if they should start a beauty blog. They have been told that they should be careful. What should they do?
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Dr Leah Treatments
Okay, this is the internet so I have a right to talk about subjects on which I know next to nothing and pontificate on matters where my opinion is totally uninformed. So here is a blog post about a business I have never used and have no intention of using any time soon. I noticed …
Are Cosmetic Chemists An Endangered Species?
I was sorting out some slides for a presentation to a company about the future of the cosmetic industry while listening to the Beauty Brains podcast earlier when a thought struck me. The Brains were discussing a project they had worked on in the nineties, and chance had it that I had worked on a …
Does Science or Emotion Drive The Cosmetic Industry?
The full title of the last talk in the Society of Cosmetic Scientists London lecture series for this year was ‘What drives trends in cosmetic claims: consumer dreams or scientific reality?’ The debate was between Stirling Murray – a marketing guru from The Red Tree consultancy and Steve Barton who trades as Skin Thinking. …
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Crowdfunding Your Cosmetic Company Start Up
Is crowd funding your cosmetic company start up a good idea? I have somehow ended up on the mailing list of a company that is putting a lot of effort into getting funding via this route. As I am not interested in investing I am finding it all a bit intrusive and annoying and I …
Doing Green The Right Way
I am a big fan of being green. I’d love to see a lot more progress in that direction in the cosmetics industry and I am very happy to report on a company that according to a report in the trade journal Happi, is doing just that. Toms of Maine have just issued a report …
Are You a LOHAS Consumer?
Are you a LOHAS consumer? No idea what I am talking about?
