Glyceryl Monostearate (aka Glyceryl Stearate)
Glyceryl monostearate, or gylceryl stearate as it appears on ingredient listings, is a widely used emulsifier.
March 2011
At last, a real cosmetic ingredients database
There is an old prayer that goes, dear God please make all the bad people good and all the good people interesting.
Goodguide – Another misleading source of information
I have just come across a website called the Goodguide, which announces itself as a guide for the green consumer. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I was instantly wary. I had found it by chance looking for safety information on a particular raw material and as it happened, the information provided by the …
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Can a Moisturiser thin your Skin?
N.B., The references to Aqueous Cream BP in this post are specific to the UK and those Commonwealth countries that use the BP. But I hope you will still find it interesting if you live elsewhere. Many years ago I read a paper that changed my attitude to skin creams. It looked at the effect …
If you take the Skin Deep Database seriously, read this!
I didn’t think that this was possible. Reading Lisa Lise’s blog the other day lowered my opinion of the Skin Deep database. Given I that I regard it as highly misleading and often wrong, this is quite an achievement. But even I thought that the materials that they have set up their database to malign …
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Clay Mud Masks
Clay Mud Masks are interesting because of how well they work, and for the science behind them.
Choosing your first face cream
What age should you start using a face cream? Is it a good idea to start looking after your skin at an early age so as to keep it in better condition later? Which is the best face cream?
Update on Chromium Hexachloride Scare
Last year I picked up on a story about alleged poor water quality in the United States. This centred around a report about hexavalent chromium levels in tap water. I wasn’t particularly impressed when I saw how low the figures being quoted were. But I did point out that there might be an issue because …
