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It feels almost like yesterday that we announced opening of the 2016 FreeFrom Skincare Awards, and yet today we are delighted to announce the Shortlist! We had a record number of entries in this, the fifth Award – around 270 products, from roughly…
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‘Free From’ labelling is based on fear. So declared a cosmetics industry panel at a summit last year, as reported in Cosmetics Design Europe last month. No, we countered in response. ‘Free from’ messaging is vital to those with allergies, or…
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‘Free-from claims are based on fear and should stop‘ reads the headline of a report from Cosmetics Design Europe, which is drawn from remarks made by an industry panel at a recent In-Cosmetics Summit meeting. Are they? I don’t read ‘free from animal derivatives’…
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We’re always juggling one award or another in our offices. Our FreeFrom Food Awards are open to entries for another week or so, while last week we announced the winners to our second FreeFrom Eating Out Awards at Food Matters Live, and – of course…
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We often get asked by readers to recommend Christmas gifts for natural living, pure skincare and anything for general ‘free from’ enthusiasts, so here are a few links which we hope will at least give you some pointers and ideas….
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Two of my favourite food ingredients have been in my thoughts a bit lately — but not in a culinary capacity! First came a request from one of our readers: I cannot have any coconut ingredients in any body products…
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So it was Bloom Remedies who emerged triumphant from the fourth annual FreeFrom Skincare Awards, announced last Friday 3rd July at the Love Natural Love Organic Show at Olympia – winning the overall Best FreeFrom Product for their Men’s Daily…
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For this year’s judging for the FreeFrom Skincare Awards – the fourth! – we swapped things around. Previously, our expert judging panels would gather for several days to judge all the entries – and decide on a shortlist of products to…
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Three interesting snippets on issues that concern us have come to our attention lately … The first concerns the preservative methylisothiazolinone (MI) — a subject we have covered extensively before. Cosmetics Design Europe recently reported that Denmark has called for…
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Five weeks after having sent our first parcel of FreeFrom Skincare Awards-entered product samples to our first Beauty Bible tester, we are just about to send our last to our last. I say ‘we’ but in fairness I should credit Adriana. Adriana…
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