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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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“In Italy we used to bathe babies in this,” said my mother, carrying a large pot of watery yellow whey towards the kitchen sink. She had just made a little bowl of fresh, stiff ricotta cheese (very easy — bring a couple of…
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Many of you will know Ruth Holroyd for her prolific blog – What Allergy – which tackles everything from celery allergy, anaphylaxis and eating out with allergies, to (safe) beer drinking, oxygen therapy and free from food. She’s a great…
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It may only have been two years ago, but it’s easy to forget the extent to which Barefoot SOS’s Face and Body Rescue Cream dominated the 2013 FreeFrom Skincare Awards – not only taking home the champion’s prize for Best…
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Cosmetic Scientist Colin of Colin’s Beauty Pages has just posted a very interesting blog about an Australian brand’s particular product label. In it, he wonders about their marketing claims and imprecise use of the word chemical, but what interested us more…
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It’s transition time at Skins Matter Towers. Having met with a select panel of judges a few months ago to plan the 2015 Free From Skincare Awards, it has been time in recent days to distribute the remaining boxes of samples…
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The subject of fact in natural skincare is something Michelle and I think about a lot as editors of the SkinsMatter.com site – we want to bring you accurate information, after all – but getting to the bottom of certain…
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We won’t beat about the bush on this one: last week, we were pretty shocked to be asked by a natural skincare company whether negative feedback was ‘filtered’ out before we publish reviews submitted to us by our team of…
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We recently came across this Q&A from the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, concerning almond oil in skincare products — and the associated risk of an allergic reaction — possibly even anaphylaxis. The perceived wisdom with regard to…
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