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Nov 27

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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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…

May 08

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Organic fake tan: dream or reality?

By Barbara Olioso Ingredients

The word organic is very reassuring, giving us a feeling of safety and health. So when it comes to artificially change the colour of our skin we love the thought of getting it with organic fake tan. But is it a reality or not? let's…

Feb 24

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Is Water Organic?

By Barbara Olioso Ingredients

I asked the question is water organic to my natural cosmetics workshop students last November because I was really curious to hear their views on this hot topic. Nearly everybody agreed on the idea of water being counted as natural but not organic. I found…

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Forty Shades of Green Cosmetics

Smoothing the path to Organic Beauty

Ecolabels

Organic fake tan: dream or reality?

Is Water Organic?

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