by Sarah Brown
My earlier post on animal testing prompted a lot of you to email and tweet in with questions. Your number 1 query being ‘is animal testing actually legal’? Here are the facts. Outside Europe it is a free-for-all, with little or no restrictions on animal testing of cosmetics in many countries, including USA and China. [...]
Over the past week you may have seen articles in the Daily Mail, METRO and The Independent exposing the big beauty brands giving up their Leaping Bunny Cruelty Free accreditation to enter the lucrative Chinese market. The current situation in China is this – all cosmetic imports into the Chinese market have to be tested on [...]
New research into the potential health risks associated with hair straighteners and fake tan emerged last week, as reported by The Huffington Post UK. According to the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, those of us who prefer our hair smooth and sleek should be more mindful of where we leave our straighteners. Of the 421 children [...]
Fancy winning a spa break worth €1000? Of course you do! To be in with a chance, all you have to do is tell STELLAR magazine which beauty products you’ve been loving over the past year. While we’ve been collecting lots of awards for our sensitive skin-loving products at home in the UK, we’ve yet [...]
I’m sure many of you will have seen the Sanex Zero% television advertisement – you know the one where naked women are smearing luminous substances onto their bodies before applying a lovely ‘natural’ looking gel to their skin? The voiceover says, ‘We put so many different chemical ingredients onto our skin.’ ‘New Sanex Zero% contains [...]
L’Oreal have found themselves in hot water yet again today over their recent advertising campaign starring Rachel Weisz. The Advertising Standards Agency concluded that the effects of Revitalift Repair 10 had been ‘misleadingly exaggerated’ through digital enhancement. While many would argue Rachel Weisz needs absolutely no retouching, the ASA deemed L’Oreal had adjusted her appearance [...]
A little late reporting this one but I thought it was such a huge step for the cosmetic industry that I couldn’t miss it out all together. Last month Cosmetics Business broke the news (Brussels plots restrictions on parabens in cosmetics, 12-Dec-2011) that the European Commission is planning to ban the use of certain parabens [...]
A new study claims Winter ages a woman’s eyes by four years and eight months, the Daily Mail reports today. After studying the eyes of 5000 women throughout the seasons, researchers found that bags were significantly puffier and darker in the Winter months. This is apparently due to the fact that less sunlight means paler [...]
For many years Cold Pressing has been the most common way to extract organic oils, and you’ll often hear brands singing its praises. What is Cold Pressing? Cold Pressed oil is obtained through pressing and grinding fruit or seeds with the use of stainless steel presses. The raw plant material is placed between horizontal plates [...]
Imagine if the key to bright, youthful, glossy hair was as easy as popping a pill with breakfast. Well, according to Metro.co.uk, soon it will be, and the striking effects will last long into old age too. Scientists at L’Oreal’s sprawling HQ have reportedly been developing the “wonder” pill for over a decade, and plan [...]
Before developing a skin allergy, I was your average beauty consumer, mixing and matching products with little consideration for what they contained.
After years of research, trials and skin tribulations I discovered the remedial and rejuvenating powers of natural ingredients and Pai Skincare was born.