Looking at my web traffic I can see that my 8 posts about the safety of parabens has not been a huge hit with readers.

There is an old philosophical conundrum.   If a man says something, and there is no woman around to hear it, is he still wrong?

In Douglas Adam’s Last Chance to See he describes his long and convoluted trip to see the Komodo Dragon.

Most people have  some idea of what a hormone does.  We have lots of hormones that work together in complex ways to keep our bodies working.  The overall hormone system is called the endocrine system and its study is called endocrinology.

I got into a bit of trouble talking to a young woman in an internet chat room the other day.

Having reviewed the Azor and really liked it, I had a look to see what other reviewers thought of it.  To my surprise it had a fairly middling rating on Amazon. 

There are about 30 million men in Britain which probably means there are 30 million different ways of shaving.  And most of us are completely confused about the technology on the shelves to help us.

Since I was a teenager in the Seventies, I’ve always regarded myself as a pretty green. Green in the environmental sense that is. 

I have spent a lot of time over the last week looking at the coverage of the Story of Cosmetics video in the blogosphere, and sometimes challenging stuff written there.  I have to say it wasn’t a particularly productive thing to do.  For a start, not many of the things I posted ever appeared.  It [...]

I hope I haven’t tried the patience of my UK Twitter followers too much lately with my tweets drawing attention to the shortcomings of the proposed Safe Cosmetics Act which is the brainchild of the arch donation-hungry scaremongers the EWG. It is a very silly bit of legislation which would cost manufacturers and taxpayers a [...]