As a keen environmentalist I often find myself face palming when a cosmetic company picks up on a green issue. They often home in on things that aren’t particularly relevant and propose solutions that are questionable. But I think the recent interest in the risks posed by microbeads is one where there is a real […]
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Almost every successful wart product in the world is based on salicylic acid. The level is somewhere between 10 and 20% and the base is a solvent rich gel that dries to form a white film. They all work pretty well, and there is not much if anything to choose between them. The popular one
The full title of the last talk in the Society of Cosmetic Scientists London lecture series for this year was ‘What drives trends in cosmetic claims: consumer dreams or scientific reality?’ The debate was between Stirling Murray – a marketing guru from The Red Tree consultancy and Steve Barton who trades as Skin Thinking.
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One of the problems with being a beauty blogger is sourcing samples. Do you spend your own money on them? That’s an expensive proposition if you post regularly. Or do you accept free samples from brands, and compromise your integrity? It is a tricky one. I suppose there is always shoplifting. Luckily as a
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I was a bit slow off the mark with this one. When the Beauty Brains started their podcast I tried to find it on iTunes but couldn’t locate it. So I gave up. I should have persevered because I needed to search not for ‘BeautyBrains’ but ‘TheBeautyBrains’. So when the penny finally dropped I was
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Lavender farmers are worried that under new legislation products containing lavender oil will have to bear a black and red warning symbol. They will also have to bear the warning ‘fatal if swallowed’. You can see why this might put people off.
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Gluten free diets have had their moment in the sun over the last year. They have become a big enough thing for the New Yorker to run a cartoon with the punchline ” I have only been off gluten for two weeks and already I am annoying.” Gluten is found in wheat and
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