I don’t suppose many people stop to think about how much shampoo or body lotion they are using. I know I don’t. But it is something that some people need to worry about. When cosmetic products are assessed for their safety the amount that is used is a relevant parameter. Obviously you use a lot […]
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Being a weak and not very disciplined person I tend to start my day not with a vigorous work out or reading something weighty and worthy, but scanning my Twitter feed for something entertaining. So this morning I woke up to a meme accusing fashion house Dolce and Gabbana of making homophobic comments. This isn’t
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I have always been rather mystified by the appeal of REN. I haven’t sampled the whole range, but the ones I have tried have been distinctly not particularly good examples of their class. I have also never quite worked out the philosophy behind what they approve of in the way of ingredients and what they
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Timea Sulenta – an Austrian cosmetic formulator has written a very informative article in the latest edition of the Personal Care magazine about the difficulties of formulating lipsticks. Because formulating lipstick is not easy. For something so every day they are surprisingly complicated. A lot of it is mainly of interest to beakerheads, but I
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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