Tag Archive: Green People

Free from grooming — what’s new?

In my dear dad’s day, men’s grooming toolkits consisted almost exclusively of Brylcream, an industrial soap, some shaving foam and razors. The Brut I’d buy him for Christmas as a boy was a late addition to his repertoire. Or was…
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FreeFrom Skincare Awards 2017: The Winners

Given that the decision last year to launch a new Lip Balms category for the 2017 Awards was, we thought, a little risky and experimental, it came as a surprise even to us that it transpired that the new category’s inaugural Gold…
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Testing and judging at the FreeFrom Skincare Awards 2017

Every year, to some degree, the Free From Skincare Awards is a bit of a numbers game. Here are 2017’s: 264 entries (just a few shy of 2016’s total), 120 brands (54 of them first-time entrants), 94 testers, 14 categories, 14…
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New awards – new sponsors!

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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Show’s Over – but what a Show!

“We’re such a small brand, we’ve only just started – we didn’t think we’d have a chance of winning against Weleda, Green People and the rest!” For the second year running following the announcement of the results of the FreeFrom…
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The Allergy and FreeFrom Show North – a look back

I’m embarrassed to admit that I expected to find less knowledge of and interest in ‘free from’ skincare at the Liverpool-based Allergy and Free From Show last weekend. I’m not quite sure why I felt like this. So many of…
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The Big Match-up

I recently spent two days at the Natural and Organic Products Europe Show in Olympia: an annual showcase of the best in natural, organic, ethical and ‘free from’ – including food, drink, skincare, supplements, household goods, clothing and much more…
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