Sodium laureth sulfate is in just about every shampoo and foam bath, as avid readers of ingredient lists can confirm. The name tells you pretty much what it is, if you know about these things. It is the sodium salt of sulfated lauryl alcohol, which has been ethoxylated. If you had hadn’t ethoxylated it, it […]
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A tough question from Andy. “I need a really good recommendation for a hand cream colin, i have tried so many yet always end up disappointed with it being gloopy, tacky and sticky on skin, with me being a hairdresser hands hurt and are sore at night, the only hand cream that i like is
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A deeply probing question from Kareen of Ziba.com. Hi Colin, I’ve been following your blog regularly and reading some of your articles on personalcaretruth.com as well. I am a beauty blogger and I am looking for advice on the best way to read cosmetics ingredients lists and make sense of them. When I do my
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I was invited to give a talk about the NPD process at the Making Cosmetics show in Birmingham, and I thought it would be something that might be of interest to a bigger audience. It would be great to help get the next Anita Roddick or Liz Earle get started.
There was a time, and it wasn’t that long ago, that almost all beauty and personal care products were sold by shops. There was a small sector that sold from adverts in magazines and periodicals. This was known as ‘off the page’ – I suppose it still is because it still exists, but I imagine
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Beauty by the Geeks is a new blog about beauty written by a couple of scientists, Brigitte and Rosie who are at Newcastle University studying medical science. There aren’t enough scientists blogging about this area. There is room for a lot more. The Beauty by the Geek approach is quite different from others. They look
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Coal tar is no longer legal in cosmetics. It was banned in 2005, in the process destroying two really well known brands: Vosene and Wright’s Coal Tar soap. There was evidence that coal tar could cause cancer. This was based on various bits of information, but most convincingly by an increased incidence in cancer amongst
The Making Cosmetics show is on at the National Motor Cycle Museum in Birmingham. I’ll be packing my bags and heading up there. I am giving a talk on NPD. (If you don’t know that is, don’t worry there will be some recycled presentation notes interesting blog posts coming up over the next couple of weeks.)
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Matrixyl has been in the news. There have been a couple of stories this week in the Mail and the Mirror. The effectiveness of an anti-wrinkle ingredient has been scientifically proven. Journalists have been onto me asking for comments, so it seems to have struck a chord at least in the media. Let’s unpack it
An intriguing query from an individual who calls themselves simply B. I’ve been looking around online on topics related to Sodium Benzoate and Vitamin C as I have read that when these two ingredients are mixed it can form Benzene which is a known carcinogen. I’ve been looking for a good Vitamin C serum
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