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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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“Unable to find skincare products free from parabens, petroleum derivatives and SLS, our founder decided to create her own!” I have lost count of the number of press releases we at Skins Matter have received over the years containing variations…
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One of our minor pet peeves at Skins Matter is manufacturers describing their products as ‘chemical free’. We’d been meaning to write a blog on this for a while, but planning and this month launching the Free From Skincare Awards…
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Although the last few months have been our ‘down’ period in terms of the Free From Skincare Awards calendar, this doesn’t mean we’ve not been busy thinking ahead to 2014! Much of the work we’ve been doing over the summer…
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Although it’s our ‘rest’ period during the annual cycle of the Free From Skincare Awards, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy thinking, pondering, rethinking, and thinking some more about how the 2013 Awards went, and about how we can…
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What actually is natural? When it comes to natural skincare, it’s a question that labelling regulations have no real answer for yet — and a question which typically incites a lot of passionate debate amongst those who take pride in…
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