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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Someone is having trouble with a balm containing zinc ricinoleate going grainy.
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INKEY List in trouble for lack of evidence for how well their caffeine shampoo works. I didn’t report them honest!
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Collagen has always been a promising skincare active, but a new form of it,Nature Identical Collagen, might finally fulfill that promise.
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Fashions come and go in the cosmetics and personal care world, and everyone is keen to be on the latest trend as soon as possible. The latest buzzy thing seems to be Cannabidiol or CBD. This has an interesting background, being a derivative of hemp which is also the source of cannabis – which has
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The rise of the Ordinary has stimulated the interest in cosmetic active ingredients. Or has the rise in interest in cosmetic active ingredients stimulated the rise of the Ordinary? It’s hard to say, and I dare say we’ll never know. But I now find myself reading beauty blogs where the bloggers are intensely interested in
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Allantoin was in the news a couple of years back when some researchers made the rather astonishing discovery that it prolonged the life of some species of worm. This is the sort of thing that gets journalists excited and articles duly appeared. Whether or not this means we can extend our lives by taking it
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I have just seen a post on Facebook where someone is wondering about how much beer they need to put in a beer shampoo. They aren’t very sure – in fact they are considering anything between 5 and 50%. That’s a lot of beer! The only thing they are sure of is that they
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
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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