Microplastics, including plastic glitters banned in Cosmetics
The ban on microplastics in cosmetics, including the immediate ban on exfoliating beads, has taken the industry by surprise.
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Hypoallergenic Is A Meaningless Claim
Hypoallergenic is a meaningless claim.
Silk Pillows:A New Category of Beauty Product
Can a silk pillow improve your skin?
Breakthrough Skincare Active – Nature Identical Collagen
Collagen has always been a promising skincare active, but a new form of it,Nature Identical Collagen, might finally fulfill that promise.
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 …
Is Lanolin Beneficial For Eczema?
A question from George Hello Colin, I was hoping to hear your opinion on a moisturiser by D.R. Harris & Co, the world’s oldest pharmacy. The majority of ingredients in this cream seems very standard, but it is also formulated with isopropyl myristate and lanolin – two ingredients which I know you are particularly fond …
How Soap And Shower Gel Dry Your Skin
I think I can claim to be something of an expert about soap and skincare, but the trouble with getting really immersed in a subject is that you begin to forget that not everybody knows what you know. I spend a lot of time talking to people in the beauty industry who know a great …
Goldfaden MD Doctor’s Scrub
I am, as I often am, indebted to British Beauty Blogger for her review of this remarkable product – Goldfaden MD Doctor’s Scrub – which she described as ‘one heck of a scrub’. Well it certainly should be because the first item on the ingredient list is ruby crystals. BBB is rightly cynical about beauty …
Pixi Glow Tonic Review
What do you call someone who works somewhere you used to work, but who joined after you left? Are they still a colleague? Not sure. But whatever, someone who now works at one of my old stomping grounds drew my attention to a product that gave her a skin reaction. It is a product …
