Personal Care Products and Exercise
I used to think about things in boxes when I was at school. There was chemistry, biology and gym. I didn’t really think much about the connections between them. But these subject headings we learn...
View ArticleIs Benzophenone A Risk To Reproductive Health?
Big corporations are run for profits and are not too scrupulous about how they seek them. We have seen tobacco companies ignore the health of smokers. Big chemical companies have pushed lead into...
View ArticleToothpaste Cannot Regenerate Your Enamel
The human body is continually breaking itself down and reassembling itself, even bones. This is a good feature because it keeps everything in good condition. It also means that many problems can be...
View ArticleFormulating Lipstick Is Not Easy
Timea Sulenta – an Austrian cosmetic formulator has written a very informative article in the latest edition of the Personal Care magazine about the difficulties of formulating lipsticks. Because...
View ArticleThe Bare Minimum You Need To Do To Comply With The Cosmetic Regulations
There is a concept in the software business called the minimum viable product. This is the barebones of an application that does just enough to enable it to get onto the market so the concept can be...
View ArticleWhy It’s Important To Develop New Products By Steve Jobs
There is very little rest to be had if you want to keep up in the beauty business. New products come out with a frequency so high it is only audible to dogs. Consumers might well wonder why cosmetic...
View ArticleBad Advice For Kitchen Cosmetic Chemists
I am great supporter of people making their own cosmetics at home. It’s a fun thing to do and for me life is all about building a better understanding of things. A good way to do this is to look...
View ArticleHair Care Secrets – Horizon BBC2 23rd January 2017
So how much hair care can you cover in an hour? Quite a lot, but maybe not as much as the producers tried to cram into this one. We had the biology of hair, a run down of the chemistry of both...
View ArticleBeer Shampoo
I have just seen a post on Facebook where someone is wondering about how much beer they need to put in a beer shampoo. They aren’t very sure – in fact they are considering anything between 5 and 50%....
View ArticleAre Floral Waters A Health Hazard?
I think this is a universal truth, but it is certainly true in labs. The most stressful role is middle management. I enjoyed my time as a bench chemist doing the actual work. I enjoy supervising...
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