Barbara Olioso, Author at The Green Chemist

May 02

New Ways with Solid Bars

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Sustainability, Trends

As plastic pollution is a growing concern, solid cosmetics make good sense. The most common format is solid bars, a.which re not only on the rise in hair care but also in many more cosmetic applications. What are the advantages and where are possible pitfalls…

Feb 10

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Sustainability at the time of COVID 19

By Barbara Olioso Sustainability, Trends

The pandemic is affecting sustainability in cosmetics in a variety of ways, in different parts of the world, including disruption to the supply chains. Despite the disruption there are growing sustainability related trends in finished products and initiatives by retailers to help conscious consumers navigating…

Jan 20

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The Handbook for Cosmetic Preservation is here

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, natural preservatives

I'm very excited to announce that my new book, the 'Handbook for Cosmetic Preservation' is finally available. It is the result of over 20 years experience in the beauty industry working on alternative preservative systems for cosmetics. The handbook's aim is to help people in…

Aug 07

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Are all natural ingredients mild?

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Ingredients

Nature is full of wonders so it is spontaneous to think that natural ingredients are mild. In reality only a small fraction of its plants are suitable for human consumption. In a society living far from nature, there is a real longing for naturals, often…

Nov 27

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Forty Shades of Green Cosmetics

By Barbara Olioso Sustainability

Following the famous Irish song, we can close our eyes and picture a vast forest of cosmetic products on the market, a wooded landscape made up of many shades of green. Which one is the greenest? The answer depends on many factors such as the…

May 15

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Smoothing the path to Organic Beauty

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Ingredients

Organic beauty is growing in popularity and gradually becoming more mainstream. However, despite this popularity and consumers’ somewhat romantic vision of ‘organic’, in the cosmetic formulator’s laboratory it is a different story: quite far from romance and closer to a drama, although always enjoyable. After…

May 15

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Honeysuckle extract

By Barbara Olioso Ingredients, natural preservatives

Cosmetic preservation has become one of the key challenges in the industry today, triggering a great interest for alternative preservation systems that are widely antimicrobial, dermatologically and toxicologically safe and that have ‘consumer friendly’ INCI names, such as botanical names. Very few of these multifunctional…

May 15

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Ecolabels

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Sustainability, Trends

Cosmetic ecolabels are super trendy because consumers desire for natural and organic cosmetics is growing. However there are a lot of grey areas in relation to green cosmetics claims and consumers do not have the skills to distinguish what is really natural and what is…

Feb 12

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Organic Healthier?

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Ingredients

Recently I read an interesting article published on the British Journal of Nutrition. The article reported that organic produce has lower pesticide and higher antioxidant contents than non organic produce, opening a big debate about the value of organic. Is organic healthier? answering this question is…

Feb 12

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What you need to know about suncare product development

By Barbara Olioso Formulations

Sun protection is very popular and in demand these days as women associate UV light with ageing and look for sun protection for their faces all year round. However when it comes to developing a beauty product that has a sun protection factor things get…

Barbara Olioso

New Ways with Solid Bars

Sustainability at the time of COVID 19

The Handbook for Cosmetic Preservation is here

Are all natural ingredients mild?

Forty Shades of Green Cosmetics

Smoothing the path to Organic Beauty

Honeysuckle extract

Ecolabels

Organic Healthier?

What you need to know about suncare product development

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