Beauty Pages

2012 was an eventful year in Britain, with the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics generating a lot of excitement.  But quite a lot has happened here at mist-wrapped Castle Beauty Pages.  I gave a talk on social media at the Society of Cosmetics Formulate event in November.  Looking back I probably should have literally given […]

There have been some amazing and unexpected revelations coming out of the News of the World phone hacking scandal.  But the one that really caught my attention was that the surprisingly close relationship between the journalists and the police extended so far as to include putting senior officers up at top spa facilities. I hadn’t

My followers on Twitter are a smart self confident, sassy, sometimes sarky bunch of well informed with-it hipsters who know what they want and aren’t short of an opinion or two.  Its a bit of shame really.  I was hoping for a bunch of adoring fans who doted on my every word.  I suppose my

All great ideas are about solving a problem.  And great as perfumes are, they have a bit of a problem.  When you apply them to your skin they gradually wear off.  But don’t worry, intrepid inventor Christine Martz has an answer.   In a 1998 patent she divulged her solution.  She has designed nifty heart

  You sometimes see people suggesting that cosmetics are in some way unregulated and we can get away with putting whatever we want in our products.  I sometimes wish it were true – I don’t think many people like having to keep up with continually changing regulations and I know I don’t.  But the fact

British Beauty Blogger is posing an interesting problem over on her blog at the moment.  Can you be both a blogger and a journalist? 

(See http://colinsbeautypages.co.uk/book-review-silent-spring-part-1/ for the first part of this review) Listen to one of the many stories detailed in Silent Spring.  It started in 1949 at a fishing reserve called  Clear Lake in America.  This was a project undertaken with great care.  The object was to get rid of the gnats that were troubling fishermen.  A

The etymology is simple.  An obesogen is something that causes obesity, in the same way that a carcinogen is something causes cancer.  So what kind of agent might cause obesity?  Pies spring to mind. 

Here’s something to look out for the next time you see footage on a documentary of the concentration camps in the Second World War.  You often see people being dusted with a powder.