Colin Solves Your Problems 20: How Long Does Nail Polish Last?
How long does a nail polish last?
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August 2012
Titanium Dioxide – A Pure White Ingredient
Titanium dioxide is a white pigment widely used ingredient including in cosmetics and particularly in sunscreens.
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A Message to Aleppo
I woke up this morning to a story on the radio that people from Britain are going out to join in the fighting in Syria. No doubt they feel strongly about what is happening there, but it just made me depressed. The news from Syria is bad enough without thinking that my countrymen are contributing
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The Halo Effect
The Halo Effect has a big effect on what we think of the products that we use, particularly ones like natural products which offer no tangible benefits.
Is Your Body Lotion Explosive? (Hint: No)
The idiots at No More Dirty Looks have just come up with a blog post that manages to outdo even their normal low standards for common sense, let alone scientific accuracy.
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Organic Certification Doesn’t Mean Ethical
Is organic food better for you? Maybe, but there is no actual evidence. But at least we know what organic food is. Grow a crop without pesticides or fertilisers and you can call it organic. You can give a farmer a certificate to prove his food is organic if you have monitored what he
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Free From Claims
A great many products are promoted on the basis not of what they do contain, but what they don’t contain.
Colin Solves Your Problems 19: Matte Moisturisers
A reader asks: What are Matte moisturisers?
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