I’ve Launched A Product! Welcome to alpha-21
After years of developing products for other people, I’ve now come up with my own antiageing skin cream.
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Beauty Brands Founded By People
There is something special about a product where you know the beauty brand founder.
Trends For 2019
Cannabidiol is being treated by everyone on the business as the next big thing. It is getting media coverage as a treatment for mental health problems, so its connection to personal care isn’t that obvious. But if you think logic has anything to do with this sort of thing, well you haven’t been paying attention. …
Does The Way You Sleep Cause Wrinkles?
Can you avoid wrinkles by sleeping on your back?
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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Do You Need Shampoo?
I don’t generally trust the Daily Mail, and in fact usually try to avoid it. But I couldn’t miss a fascinating story about falling shampoo sales. It seems that last year some of the big brands lost as much as 11% of their sales. What is going on? The Mail of course is never short of …
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. “
Is It A Good Idea To Make Your Own Cosmetics?
I don’t like the Daily Mail. There are a number of reasons. There’s their support for the fascists prior to the second world war. There’s their campaign against the MMR vaccine which led to a major public health problem. And there’s the general nastiness of their columnists. But I am also a bit worried that …
Sleep And Skin Tone
I have written several times on this blog that I can’t make sense of all the diverse and often contradictory information out there about health. I am a great believer in the scientific method, but it has to be admitted that it isn’t good for everything you would like to know. A good example is …
