Any product that has water in it and needs a shelf life of more than a week is going to need some kind of preservative, and personal care products, topical pharmaceuticals and cosmetics are no exception. But products that are applied to the skin have one extra problem that other products don’t generally have. This […]
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I have looked at the benefits of organic skincare to you as a consumer in the first two posts in this series. I concluded that the risk posed from pesticides in conventional products was zero for ones that didn’t contain natural ingredients. And as we don’t eat through our skins, there is no advantage from
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It is often said that 60% of what we apply to our skin is absorbed. The true figure is far lower.
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There have been some amazing and unexpected revelations coming out of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. But the one that really caught my attention was that the surprisingly close relationship between the journalists and the police extended so far as to include putting senior officers up at top spa facilities. I hadn’t
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Thanks for an interesting question from Mike I have extremely sensitive skin below my eybrows. The skin appears to be very sensitive to sun/wind/perspiration. I am a keen cyclist so am very prone. I wear wrap around sunglasses but his does not help. Using various creams seems to aggrivate the sorness. My daughter has suggested
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One of the reasons given for eating organic food rather than conventional food is that it is richer in nutrients. This is possible. The way a plant is grown or the way an animal is kept is going to have an effect on how it turns out, and this could affect how valuable it is
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I am probably one of the few men in their fifties who can spend a lot of time online reading blogs by young women and exchanging messages with them without having to clear my browser history before my wife sees it. I do of course have a perfectly legitimate reason to do so, and I
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I got an anonymous question via Formspring. Colin, I’d love to hear your take on the dangers (if any) of silicones in skin and hair products. Dimithecone, cyclomethicone and phenyl trimithecone have particular interest.
“This morning the L’Oreal Ambassador, Mr Hugh Laurie, handed Gillette a final note stating that, unless we hear from them by 11 o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their Gillette Series Senstive Skin Gel from the top shelf at the supermarket, a state of war would exist between us. I have to
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The emperor Diocletian did something that very very few rulers in history have ever done. After a long and successful reign he handed over to someone else and retired. He set up a palace and set about growing vegetables. Politics being what it is, before long there was a crisis and someone was sent to
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