Epidermis and Dermis
Time and again online you come across the statement that 60% of what you apply to your skin is absorbed into it. Something that so many people are saying must be true, must it not?
Well no it isn’t. But I have to admit that it does sound sort of believable. You apply a cream to your skin and rub it in and does disappear. Where is it all going? Read the rest of this entry »
There have been some amazing and unexpected revelations coming out of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. But the one that really caught my attention was that the surprisingly close relationship between the journalists and the police extended so far as to include putting senior officers up at top spa facilities.
I hadn’t realised that the force is so full of men who moisturise. I don’t know about the Metropolitan Police, perhaps its time to rename them the Metrosexual Police. Anyway, I have obviously been ignoring some potentially enthusiastic Colin’s Beauty Pages readers so to make amends here are my top tips for the appearance conscious copper. Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks for an interesting question from Mike
I have extremely sensitive skin below my eybrows. The skin appears to be very sensitive to sun/wind/perspiration. I am a keen cyclist so am very prone. I wear wrap around sunglasses but his does not help. Using various creams seems to aggrivate the sorness. My daughter has suggested dermalogica total eye. Can you help?
When I was a student one of my friends shaved off his eye brows. I am still not entirely sure why he did this, but it was probably attention seeking at some level or other. It made him look odd, but it took a while to work exactly what was wrong.
One of the consequences was that he found that if he ran, as the sweat started to run down into his eyes. It was bad enough that he had to give up playing rugby until his eye brows had grown back.
I think there may be a clue as to the root cause of your trouble here. I wonder if when you are cycling small quantities of sweat are accumulating in your eye brows and slowly leaking down onto the skin between your eye brows and your eyes. If so, I think the solution might be to dispense with creams and instead go for Vaseline. This ought to provide a strong enough barrier to let your skin recover. It will work best if you apply it before strenuous exercise.
Dermalogica Total Eye Care is a great product but I am not sure that this is the kind of problem it would be good for. It would also be a pretty expensive to use in large quantities.
Here is my review of Dermalogica Total Eye Care.
One of the reasons given for eating organic food rather than conventional food is that it is richer in nutrients. This is possible. The way a plant is grown or the way an animal is kept is going to have an effect on how it turns out, and this could affect how valuable it is to you when you eat it.
This is an interesting issue and one that I might well return to in future blog posts. But this particular series is looking at whether or not you should use skincare made from organic ingredients. Is the question of nutrient levels significant when choosing your skincare products?
I don’t really need to answer that one. We don’t eat through our skin.
Not really, but most moisturisers will help a bit. Some also contain fine reflective pigments that can reduce the appearance of them. Drinking plenty of water can help a little too. But none of these things can really do much more than improve them a bit. Basically as we get old we get more wrinkles. Read the rest of this entry »
I am probably one of the few men in their fifties who can spend a lot of time online reading blogs by young women and exchanging messages with them without having to clear my browser history before my wife sees it. I do of course have a perfectly legitimate reason to do so, and I am also lucky enough to have a very good relationship with Mrs Beautyscientist. But the attraction for older men of younger women has been the source of a great deal of scandal, comedy and gossip over the years. The older men rarely come out of it with much in the way of dignity, but that doesn’t seem to put them off. Read the rest of this entry »
I got an anonymous question via Formspring.
Colin, I’d love to hear your take on the dangers (if any) of silicones in skin and hair products. Dimithecone, cyclomethicone and phenyl trimithecone have particular interest.
“This morning the L’Oreal Ambassador, Mr Hugh Laurie, handed Gillette a final note stating that, unless we hear from them by 11 o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their Gillette Series Senstive Skin Gel from the top shelf at the supermarket, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received.”
I am not sure what a brand ambassador does exactly, though I suppose it probably doesn’t involve declaring war on other brands. It is just as well in the case of Hugh Laurie. Read the rest of this entry »
The Palace where Diocletian grew organic cabbages
The emperor Diocletian did something that very very few rulers in history have ever done. After a long and successful reign he handed over to someone else and retired. He set up a palace and set about growing vegetables. Politics being what it is, before long there was a crisis and someone was sent to persuade him to come back into public life. His reply was “you wouldn’t even ask me if you could see the cabbages I have grown with my own hand.”
They must have been some cabbages.
Happi reported last week that the Personal Care Products Council spent $170,000 lobbying the federal government in the first quarter, a 21% increase from the same period a year ago.
Is that all? That barely covers the cost of an office and a couple of staff. I know its easy to spend other people’s money, but surely the big cosmetic companies can pony up a bit more. I don’t mind spending a bit of my free time combatting the nonsense spread by spammers and scaremongers but it would be good to think that there was at least some serious cash being devoted to the same cause by an industry that spends billions on adverts.
http://www.happi.com/news/2011/07/01/personal_care_lobbying_group_boosts_spending_21%25
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