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Is CBD About To Be Banned In Europe?

CBD skincare faces a critical challenge as France proposes classifying CBD as a potentially toxic substance to the European Chemicals Agency. While this could lead to a Europe-wide cosmetics ban, it might push the industry toward more focused, research-backed applications. A smaller, more targeted market could ultimately create stronger, more credible products.

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Astringents

A Twitter friend asks what an astringent is. And the answer is basically quite straight forward on one level. It is something that stings the skin and stimulates it to react. The easiest way to think about it is to consider the material that is most often used as an astringent, or at least most

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Placental Protein – Should You Seek Out Products Containing It?

My long term Twitter pal@just3nita asked me about placental protein.  It seems to me that there is always somebody somewhere in the world putting something stupid into a cosmetic product.  But in fact placental protein isn’t a particularly new idea.  It has been around long enough for their to be an official EU monograph for it

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