I was born right just when the drug thalidomide was being prescribed for morning sickness. This has always made me feel particular empathy towards those people who were born with defects caused by that drug. I have run into a few of them over the years, and of course they are always about my age […]
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I get some strange questions on here sometimes. Here’s one from Maria. You said we could ask anything, not necessarily related to the cosmetics industry. I live in a very hard water area and my washing machine heating element gave up the ghost recently. On inspection, it was covered in a rather nasty, hard, discoloured
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Dr Rozina Ali is a good choice to front an hour long review of the current developments in anti-agening research. She is a plastic surgeon who not only looks extremely good for her age, but is also a very good speaker. If she wrote her own script (and it sounded as if she had) she
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It is possible to make a living as a beauty blogger, but it is very hard work.
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A couple of posers this time. I have taken a while to get onto the first one, but it is a bit of knotty one in many ways. Dear Colin Feel a bit behind the curve only finding your fantastic blog in 2012.. However have a couple queries both regarding products for African hair. 1.
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Micellar water based eye makeup removers are getting a lot of coverage right now. They are mild and effective and are a good choice, but aren’t as different or new as you might think.
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The previous programmes looked at how we have ended up so fat. In the third part the subject was so called healthy foods. Health foods have been around a long time, but they really took off in the nineties when a series of health scares over food eroded people’s confidence in the mainstream food industry.
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There is some coverage in the less credible media today about a cream that is supposed to reduce breast size. I don’t want to add to their publicity bandwagon by naming it. Knowing how many women resort to breast reduction surgery I have to say it would be a fantastic product to have created. Not
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