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Tag Archives: dry skin
Eucerin Extra Dry Skin Intensive 10% w/ w Urea Treatment Lotion Product Review
Okay, you’ve got really dry skin. What is a good choice of skin cream? One approach is to look for actives that have a good effect and then find a product that has a lot of that ingredient. This sounds … Continue reading
Three Reasons To Skip The Shower
Cosmetic Design Europe ran a piece plugging a new product launch a few weeks back. They also copyright protected it so I couldn’t cut and paste from it to run a commentary. How they run their blog is up to … Continue reading
Does Lip Balm Make Your Lips Dry?
The Beauty Brains highlighted a list of three useless cosmetic product categories on their Twitter feed a couple of days ago that they had found on a blog. The first two were pretty hard to argue with. Split ends … Continue reading
Elemis Pro-Collagen Super System
Elemis have some highly rated products but their Pro-Collagen Marine Cream seems to have a particular appeal to people who want a moisturiser that doesn’t bring them out in spots. The fact that it doesn’t have this downside gets … Continue reading
Fabric Facial Masks
Facial masks have been around for ages, and are popular enough to get stocked in supermarkets in the UK. But they are still exotic enough that you can’t assume people know what they are. The idea of putting a clothe … Continue reading
Posted in moisturisation, Product Reviews
Tagged dry skin, moisturisation, Product review
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Dermatitis on the Face
A question from Junie Hi My doctor whi is also a dermatologist says I have dermatitis. On my face and eye lids, the cream he gave me made it worse, the next cream he suggested I refused as it contained … Continue reading
Lanolin
I wrote recently about hypoallergenic products and and pointed out that one of the few ingredients that we have any data on the incidence of allergic reactions is lanolin. This isn’t a coincidence. Lanolin was really the original cosmetic ingredient … Continue reading
Posted in Ingredients, Scaremongers, Waxes
Tagged dry skin, ingredients, moisturiser, scaremongers
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Why natural oils are better for your skin
Despite what a lot of marketing suggests, there is no particular reason to suppose that natural ingredients are safer or superior to synthetic ones. It depends on what you are doing with them. It’s horses for courses. You pick the … Continue reading
Should You Shampoo Your Hair?
There has been a lot of debate online following a video being run by the Huffington Post about a woman who hasn’t used shampoo for five years. This was picked up by the Beauty Brains and it has generated and … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty News, Beauty Tips, Ingredients
Tagged dry skin, hair, personal care products
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Dove Soap
Dove have been running a rather stupid advert showing the difference between Dove and ordinary soap. They put some coloured paper in the shape of a woman on bars of soap and left them on the soap bar. Ordinary soap … Continue reading
