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Feb 24

Why the Beauty Industry Needs a Plant-Based Preservatives Database

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Ingredients, natural preservatives

The beauty industry is at a turning point. With mounting pressure from regulators, retailers and consumers alike, formulators are being asked to do something that once felt contradictory: create products that are both rigorously effective and genuinely sustainable. Preservation — the science of keeping a…

Jul 16

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Emerging Research Finds Extensive Cosmetic Ingredient Exposure in Children

By Barbara Olioso Ingredients

Overview A recent, NIH-supported investigation has uncovered significant exposure of young U.S. children to a wide array of chemicals, many of which are common components of cosmetic and personal care products. This work, published in a leading peer-reviewed journal, highlights the routine detection of several…

Nov 09

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Eight myths about natural cosmetic preservation

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Ingredients, natural preservatives

In my 20 years of cosmetic development and training in the cosmetic industry I have come across a few misconceptions about ingredients used in cosmetic preservation. In this article I will debunk eight myths about natural cosmetic preservation: Myth 1 Vitamin E is a preservative…

Oct 27

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In Conversation with Forest Wise, walking the talk of sustainable ingredients

By Barbara Olioso Ingredients, Sustainability

While looking for new natural and sustainable ingredients in Paris at In Cosmetics Global I bumped into Richard Eyles and Dirk-Jan Oudshoorn from Forestwise and started an interesting conversation about sustainability and the ingredients they offer. So here is taste of our chat in Paris…

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…

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…

Feb 23

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What is the difference between natural, synthetic, naturally derived in cosmetics?

By Barbara Olioso Ingredients

We trust natural, and we find this word all over, however what is the difference between natural and synthetic today? What was natural 100 years ago is different from what is natural now. 100 years ago our ancestors were doing their washing by hand using…

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 01

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Why henna hair dye is great and how best apply it

By Barbara Olioso Formulations, Ingredients

Being a regular henna user and fan I finally got round writing a post about why henna hair dye is great and how best apply it to make the most of it. Not all henna available is the same and the way you apply it…

Ingredients

Why the Beauty Industry Needs a Plant-Based Preservatives Database

Emerging Research Finds Extensive Cosmetic Ingredient Exposure in Children

Eight myths about natural cosmetic preservation

In Conversation with Forest Wise, walking the talk of sustainable ingredients

Are all natural ingredients mild?

Smoothing the path to Organic Beauty

Honeysuckle extract

What is the difference between natural, synthetic, naturally derived in cosmetics?

Organic Healthier?

Why henna hair dye is great and how best apply it

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