Should you use natural products if you have sensitive skin? There is an argument that you shouldn’t. The problem is that an allergic reaction is caused by your immune system reacting to something that it encounters and identifies as a threat. Natural products contain a wider diversity of ingredients so you have a bigger chance […]
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Colin’s Beauty Pages has been getting massive traffic over the last couple of days from people searching out information on methylisothiazolinone. I gather the issue has got some media coverage over in the US – which is where most of it is coming from. I don’t know exactly what form it has taken but it
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One of the Chemists’ Corner team made a very good point on Twitter. If antibacterial soaps, most of which contain triclosan, are effective then industry shouldn’t have any trouble demonstrating the fact. The context to this is a recent request from the FDA for data supporting the efficacy of antibacterial soaps.
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An interesting question from Patricia that I think might interest some other people. I have sensitive skin and always look for cosmetic products which are free of harsh chemicals. I was not aware of the m1 preservative until today when a report was made on the breakfast show and will in future try to find
I was disappointed with the way Watchdog handled its coverage of methylisothiazolinone. Quite apart from the blatant sensationalisation and lack of explanation, it also failed to address a pretty key question. What do you do if you develop a reaction to a cosmetic product?
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Although it is a long way from being my most popular post, the one I get most comments on is my one on Methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone free products. These preservatives are used in a lot of products. I doubt that anybody alive hasn’t come into contact with them. Most people don’t have any issue with them,
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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
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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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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