Colin’s Beauty Pages Podcast Episode 4 Langerhans Cells Click to listen now. Right click and save to listen later. (Control and click on a Mac) Microscopes began to be used around 1600 but it wasn’t until 1868 that a medical student called Paul Langerhans noticed some small black smudges in the skin.  And it took [...]

Cocoa has been shown to reduce sun burn and contains antioxidants and other skin benefits.

It has been suggested that eating a lot of sugar might prematurely age the skin. The argument is a good one, but ultimately there is no actual proof and any effect is probably drowned out by more significant effects.

The bulk of dust in your house is dead skin from the people who live in it. The skin is continually renewing itself from below and part of this process is the shedding of dead cells. This creates a lot of dusting. As always seems to be the case with the skin, looking into the [...]

This is a product that takes itself very seriously. It comes with a CD with videos that explain what it is all about and show you how to use it. There is also a website with an impressive amount of information. The bit that interested me most was the clinical data. This has been done [...]

Acne is a miserable condition, particularly severe acne.  When I used to work in research into acne I often used to get people asking me if it was affected by what they ate.  A lot of people claimed that chocolate, particularly Mars bars for some reason, seemed to make their spots worse. I used to [...]

Review of Wellbox, the latest beauty treatment device. A nice story but no evidence that it works yet.

The bath oil is often overlooked as a way of hydrating the skin. Dispersing mineral oil bath oils are best. Enjoy some me time while benefiting your skin

An article I wrote for http://girlstravelclub.co.uk The skin is the largest organ in the body and in many ways the most remarkable. It manages to be flexible, sensitive and does an amazing job of keeping the contents of your body in while keeping most of the stuff in the environment out. I think everyone knows [...]