Certificates Of Free Sale – What Are They?
Certificates of free sale – what are they and where do you get them from?
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Legislation
Boring, but sometimes you need to talk about it.
INKEY List Advert For Caffeine Shampoo Pulled Due to Lack of Evidence It Works
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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Animal Testing – The facts, the opinions and the politics
Animal Testing – The facts, the opinions and the politics
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The Truth Behind Racy Olivia Buckland’s Banned Advert
What is the truth behind the ban on the racy advert by Olivia Buckland?
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Flawless Beauty, LLC Issues Voluntary Recall of Unapproved Drugs
What is the difference between a drug and a Cosmetic? The simple answer is it depends on the claims you make for it. So if you sell a shampoo to treat dandruff, it is a cosmetic. If you say it cures psoriasis then that makes it a medicine. The more complicated answer is that if
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What the Plastic Microbead Ban Means
I had imagined the UK’s much publicised microbead ban would be basically much like the legislation that is either already in force or well on the way around the world already. Despite all the recent evidence I still think of my fellow countryfolk as sensible pragmatists who don’t panic about things. So when I heard
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Rosemary Water – Is It Good For You?
I am not religious, but I was struck once by something a Catholic priest said on the radio. He was talking about a seminar they had just had on morality. “It’s easy to agree on principles. The arguments start when you get into the details.” Well I don’t know about morals, but that is certainly
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New FDA Guidance On Lead In Lipstick
This feels like the end of a chapter. December 21, 2016 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance recommending a limit of no more than 10 parts per million (ppm) of lead as an impurity in cosmetic lip products (such as lipsticks, lip glosses, and lip liners) and externally applied cosmetics
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Does MI Cause Developmental Problems?
There are an interesting couple of points in the comments thread on my blog post asking for MI not to become a scare story, from Suzanne. She has drawn my attention to a paper from 2012 that details developmental problems in tadpoles exposed to MI. She concludes from this that MI is potentially unsafe for
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Dangers of Mineral Oil In Lipstick
A paper in the most recent International Journal of Cosmetic Science has just drawn attention to a little noticed issue that has been bubbling away in the background of the cosmetic science world for a while. The issue is the use of long chain hydrocarbons in lip products. This sounds pretty formidable, but it is
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