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The Advertising Standards Agency in the UK is charged with maintaining standards in advertising.  On the whole, I think they do a good job.  You don’t have to work in a consumer goods company to know that there are people about who will say almost anything to make a sale.  If you spend any time […]

Arrogant Cat launch a pair of fragrances

I will be at the Science Online conference again this year.  Last year’s was great fun.  I not only got a t-shirt I was also introduced to Twitter and got to meet some interesting people. You can see me in this picture if you look carefully (and know what I look like).   The only

Height matters more than skin colour when it comes to picking a mate.

I am indebted to Heather B on LinkedIn for drawing my attention to this blog post – http://www.beautyschool.com/blog/green-beauty/how-your-hair-can-save-the-world/ – which gives some details of a scheme whereby discarded hair from beauty salons is packed into nylon stockings and used to soak up oil spills.  It seems that the fibrous and adsorbent nature of hair is

My twitter chum featuresjourno drew my attention to a recent article in the UK press which warned that anti-wrinkle creams could be damaging to the skin of young women.  A survey has found that a third of women under 25 had used an anti-wrinkle cream.  The article suggested that this put them at risk of

As I have said before, shea butter is one of the ingredients I recommend in hand creams. I have been busy lately researching an e-book on shea butter.  In the course of this I came across the first reference to shea butter in Western literature – though it was of course already well known in

Beauty Brains is a great American blog devoted to the science behind beauty, and I have just written a guest post on it.