Skin pH – Should You Worry About It?
Skin pH is talked about, but how important is it?
Science
Hard core science straight from the journals.
Breakthrough Skincare Active – Nature Identical Collagen
Collagen has always been a promising skincare active, but a new form of it,Nature Identical Collagen, might finally fulfill that promise.
by A.S.Barwich
Smellosophy is a difficult book on a difficult subject. But if you want to learn more about the sense of smell, worth a look.
Intermittent Fasting
I stumble into intermittent fasting. I am already losing a lot of weight.
Learning Cosmetic Science for Non-Cosmetic Scientists
A question from Emma Dear Colin I started reading your blog a few months ago, and find it a fascinating and useful resource. I am in the process of setting up a small business selling soaps and bath products that I make myself by hand. I started this as a hobby about 4 years ago, …
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Egg and Yoghurt As A Hair Conditioner
I was talking to someone who grew up on the Indian subcontinent and he asked me about something his mother and sister do. They make their own hair conditioner using yoghurt and egg. It’s quite an interesting idea. As a cosmetic chemist I can draw on raw materials from several hundred suppliers and use all …
Grey Hair Gene
Grey hair is something we can all look forward to. That the genes have something to do with it is pretty clear. Some people go grey in their twenties – a few put it off until their fifties or even later. And it is very rare that someone goes grey and then turns back again. …
Antibiotic Free Rosacea Treatments – Dermalex
A question from Lucy Exciting to find your site… thank you for interesting articles. Do you know anything about Dermalex Rosacea Cream? It sounds tempting in so far as being antibiotic free and reducing redness but the scary-sounding ingredients are unfamiliar. Is it genuinely safe?I’d be grateful for your opinion
Hair Care Secrets – Horizon BBC2 23rd January 2017
So how much hair care can you cover in an hour? Quite a lot, but maybe not as much as the producers tried to cram into this one. We had the biology of hair, a run down of the chemistry of both shampoos and conditioners, restorative hair surgery, a new hair strengthening agent, hair evaluation …
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Is Standing Healthier Than Sitting?
Is standing up a lot a good idea? The claimed health benefits for standing rather than sitting are quite impressive. According to juststand.org excessive sitting is causing “obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, depression and the cascade of health ills and everyday malaise that come from what scientists have named sitting disease. “
