They are out to scare you. Don’t worry – I am on the case.
A debate about the safety of chemicals in cosmetics chaired by Alice Hart-Davis with Chris Flower (Director General, CTPA) & Dr Peter Taylor (Pharmacy lecturer, De Montfort University) speaking for them and Jo Fairley (Journalist/Author of the Green Beauty Bible) & Jayney Goddard (President, Complementary Medicine Association) speaking against.
A regular feature on the calendar of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists is the Southern Educational Event held this year on the 6th of June at the London College of Fashion. The first speaker was former president of the society Dene Godfrey who was talking on a subject that he has basically made his own.
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In March 2011 an accident at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan led to a release of radioactive elements into the atmosphere. A few days later, these unique elements were detected in Oxford in the UK. Given that Japan and the UK are on opposite sides of the earth, that accident must have filled the
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Is Phenoxyethanol Banned in Japan? My recent post on phenoxyethanol prompted this question on Twitter. The answer is no it isn’t. Phenoxyethanol is limited to 1% in Japan exactly as it is in the European Union. But why did my twitter chum think it might be. I did a quick google and found that there
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I spend a lot of time on this blog pointing out the shortcomings of scaremongers who delight in trying to suggest that there is something wrong with the cosmetics that everyone uses every day.
Endocrine Disruptors – What Are They? Endocrine disruptors are a bit of a tough subject, so before starting this post I went for a walk to think it over. After a disappointing summer the god responsible for the weather had given us the consolation prize of some balmy warm days in late August. It was
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The idiots at No More Dirty Looks have just come up with a blog post that manages to outdo even their normal low standards for common sense, let alone scientific accuracy.
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A great many products are promoted on the basis not of what they do contain, but what they don’t contain.
There are good reasons to believe that enjoying yourself is beneficial for your health. Unhappiness has some severe downsides. Being depressed or stressed makes a wide range of medical conditions worse. The exact reasons for all this haven’t been teased out in the kind of detail that chemistry anoraks like me enjoy, but it seems
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With stories in the last couple of weeks including scares about lead, cadmium, arsenic and today cobalt, I have decided to set up a bingo card comprising the Periodic Table. The rules are simple. When there is a scare story you just cross off the element involved. Fabulous prizes for a full group or a
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