I have just come across a website called the Goodguide, which announces itself as a guide for the green consumer. I hadn’t heard of it before, but I was instantly wary. I had found it by chance looking for safety information on a particular raw material and as it happened, the information provided by the […]
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Clay Mud Masks are interesting because of how well they work, and for the science behind them.
A great many cosmetic products nowadays contain plant extracts of one kind or another. I think the first product that really captured the imagination of the public with this approach was the shampoo Timotei. When it was first launched it was advertised by a slim blond woman who was pictured wandering dreamily around a field
The French word for glue is col. Think of a collage, a picture made up of lots of other pictures glued together -that’s where it gets its name from. The name for collagen comes from the same root as well. It is the glue that holds the skin together. What it actually is is a
Glycerol, propylene glycol and hyaluronic acid are all good moisturisers, but this why I prefer glycerol.
In a recent post on antibacterial products I deliberately avoided talking about individual antibacterial ingredients. Most of them are interesting enough to deserve a post in their own right, and none more so than triclosan.
Triclosan – Why you should use it, and why it should be banned Read More »
To say that the beauty business is prone to fashions and fads is a bit of an understatement. Andy Warhol said that in the future everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes.
A great many cosmetics and personal care products on the market contain an insecticide, and sometimes even the people formulating them don’t realise. To make things even scarier it is one of the very few things in cosmetic formulations that can penetrate the skin and get into the blood stream.
The Insecticide in many common personal care products Read More »
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.
Arbonne and the Crackers Read More »
