One of the most surprising things about blogging is how much you learn. A good example arrived in my inbox yesterday. I have just started a newsletter for people with sensitive skin, largely because I get a lot of people getting in touch looking for information about it, and in particular sensitivity to methylisothiazolinone or […]
I get a lot of traffic to this blog from people interested in methylisothiazolinone, or as it is now known MI. For people who haven’t been following the story, here’s a quick recap. MI has been used for about 40 years in combination with a closely related chemical called methylchloroisothiazolinone. I’ll call that MCI.
Brands are significant things in the personal care world. Huge sums are invested in creating, promoting and protecting them. The effort made by the guys in the lab who formulate them is a tiny fraction of the time, care and money lavished on the marketing.
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I got a good point made to me via e-mail responding to one of my posts about methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone. He or she desribes themselves by the pathos ridden name foreverbotheredbythisallergy and referring to some products that readers have identifed as free of those two chemicals – Some the products above have the benzylisothiazoline which
Update 14/5/16 This post is from 2013 and was probably already getting out of date by that time. Since then I have started some MI Free Product Lists that I am trying to keep up to date, but I’ll leave this up as it is still a very long list and may be of interest
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I have had a couple of people asking me about methylisothiazolinone free hair dye. The answer is that although I don’t know a lot about hair dyes, I don’t think that many of them contain methylisothiazolinone or methylchloroisothiazolinone in either the colour shade or the activator. But quite a lot of them also include a conditioner, and this
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I get a lot of traffic to my post about the combination of Methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone. If you read all the comments it gets, you’d probably get the impression that this preservative system had a really big problem with sensitisation. This would be pretty misleading. In real life products preserved with these ingredients don’t generate unusually high
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Is Phenoxyethanol Banned in Japan? My recent post on phenoxyethanol prompted this question on Twitter. The answer is no it isn’t. Phenoxyethanol is limited to 1% in Japan exactly as it is in the European Union. But why did my twitter chum think it might be. I did a quick google and found that there
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Phenoxyethanol is a preservative that hasn’t gathered a huge amount of attention until recently. This is largely because of what it isn’t. It isn’t a formaldehyde donor. It isn’t particularly sensitising. It has never been linked with cancer. Basically it has kept its head down and nobody has taken a lot of notice of it.
Deb asks whether natural preservatives are safer than synthetic ones. Hi Colin, stumbled across your site somehow and so now have a question – I personally prefer to use “natural” preservatives (well actually prefer to make natural products with essential oils etc) over synthetic preservatives – the thought being that the synthetic preservatives may be
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