July 2013

Is Liz Earle unravelling?

I’m very grateful to Eric for drawing my attention to a job advertised on the Liz Earle website. It is described as a continuous improvement buyer. I suppose “Purchasing Manager” would sound a bit old fashioned.  But most job adverts have their fair share of trendy verbiage.  This particular one has some interesting features.

A Quick Tip for Methylisothiazolinone Free Hair Dye

I have had a couple of people asking me about methylisothiazolinone free hair dye.  The answer is that although I don’t know a lot about hair dyes, I don’t think that many of them contain methylisothiazolinone or methylchloroisothiazolinone in either the colour shade or the activator.  But quite a lot of them also include a conditioner, and this …

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Methylisothiazolinone

I get a lot of traffic to my post about the combination of Methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone.  If you read all the comments it gets, you’d probably get the impression that this preservative system had a really big problem with sensitisation.  This would be pretty misleading.  In real life products preserved with these ingredients don’t generate unusually high …

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