Glyceryl Monostearate (aka Glyceryl Stearate)
Glyceryl monostearate, or gylceryl stearate as it appears on ingredient listings, is a widely used emulsifier.
Glyceryl monostearate, or gylceryl stearate as it appears on ingredient listings, is a widely used emulsifier.
There is an old prayer that goes, dear God please make all the bad people good and all the good people interesting.
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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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 …
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 …
If you take the Skin Deep Database seriously, read this! Read More »
Clay Mud Masks are interesting because of how well they work, and for the science behind them.
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?
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 …