Nothing worth doing is easy, and working with natural products is no exception. The way you handle them makes a difference. I have just come across a good example, rosehip oil. When I was growing up rosehip syrup was routinely administered to growing children. I particularly remember a spoonful of it being added to a […]
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My friends over at the Beauty Brains blog have been talking for a while about using coconut oil as a pre-conditioner. Basically the idea is that the oil soaks into the hair shaft and makes the hair less brittle. It is an interesting idea, and one that has some evidence behind it. So I thought
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A lot of people are concerned about palm oil production. Palm oil production has some serious environmental issues associated with it to do with sustainability and destruction of precious wildlife habitats. Older readers might remember serious air pollution caused by palm oil farming in Asia some years back. The symbol of this has become
What is the best oil for baby massage? This ought to be a simple question. But first of all, should we be massaging babies at all in the first place? It doesn’t sound like it should be a problem. People like cuddling babies and babies seem to like being cuddled. Massaging is just an extension
The names of cosmetic ingredients, and food ingredients, often make them sound a lot more complicated than they really are. Caprylic capric triglyceride is a name that often appears on ingredient lists and I doubt that many people take much notice of it or wonder where it comes from. But it is, usually, simply a
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I get a lot of people arriving at this blog looking for information about triisononanoin. I think the main reason is it used in Bio-Oil which always seems to generate interest. Who wouldn’t be curious about a cosmetic ingredient with such a strange name? It would be great if the ingredient itself were equally
LinkedIn, which if you don’t know it is a sort of sensible version of Facebook that you can get away with using at work, is a great place to get into interesting and informative discussions.
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