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Clinique’s Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion Plus Product Review

20 Comments / Product Reviews / By Colin

One of the most popular products in the lotion category for many years has been Clinique’s Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion. The name has long been a source of amusement for cosmetic scientists. It really should have been called a Boringly Unoriginal Much Like All The Rest Moisturizing Lotion. It’s formulation was basically the most […]

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Salix Alba Maximus for Men

1 Comment / Product Reviews / By Colin

There are quite a few ways to give your skincare product some personality. You can have a unique active. You can have a particular geographical location. You can be endorsed by a celebrity. Salix Alba ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to this. It boasts a natural source of salicin. It comes

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Colin Solves Your Problems 27 – Heavy Duty Hand Cream Recommendation

20 Comments / Problem Pages / By Colin

A tough question from Andy. “I need a really good recommendation for a hand cream colin, i have tried so many yet always end up disappointed with it being gloopy, tacky and sticky on skin, with me being a hairdresser hands hurt and are sore at night, the only hand cream that i like is

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Colin Solves Your Problems 25 – Dry Cracked Skin

8 Comments / Problem Pages / By Colin

A plaintive e-mail from Talia. Do you have any advice on what can be done for healing peeling skin on the face more quickly? I live in a very dry climate and lately my mouth and cheeks have been cracking and peeling from the dryness. (I might add that I’m also on some very drying

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Cetearyl Alcohol

64 Comments / Ingredients / By Colin

We all know what fat is. And we all know what alcohol is. But how about a fatty alcohol?

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Can a Moisturiser thin your Skin?

15 Comments / Beauty Tips / By Colin

N.B., The references to Aqueous Cream BP in this post are specific to the UK and those Commonwealth countries that use the BP. But I hope you will still find it interesting if you live elsewhere. Many years ago I read a paper that changed my attitude to skin creams. It looked at the effect

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Arbonne and the Crackers

11 Comments / Ingredients, Oils, Product Reviews / By Colin

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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Boots Protect and Perfect Serum – Clinical Trial published

Leave a Comment / Product Reviews / By Colin

I reviewed the famous Boots No 7 Serum back in 2007 when it was in the news last time. It is getting widespread media coverage again now that positive results of a proper a trial published in the British Journal of Dermatology – a highly respectable scientific journal. You can read the full publication here.

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Men who moisturise update

Leave a Comment / Men's Grooming / By Colin

I was idly looking through product websites and came across the Elemis one. For people who don’t know the brand, this is a mid-market spa range promoted principally in spas. (Their marketing people will be shaking their fists and saying they are up-market I expect.) Quite nice products on the whole. Anyway they have a

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Should you exfoliate?

7 Comments / Beauty Tips / By Colin

The bulk of dust in your house is dead skin from the people who live in it. The skin is continually renewing itself from below and part of this process is the shedding of dead cells. This creates a lot of dusting. As always seems to be the case with the skin, it is fascinating

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