Eczema – Skins Matter

Three ingredients, three problems …

Alex May 27, 2015 2 Comments

Three interesting snippets on issues that concern us have come to our attention lately … The first concerns the preservative methylisothiazolinone (MI) — a subject we have covered extensively before. Cosmetics Design Europe recently reported that Denmark has called for…
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Contact Dermatitis, Cosmetic Ingredients, Eczema, Food Allergens, Fragrance Allergens, Preservatives

'free from' skincare, Contact Dermatitis, Cosmetics Design Europe, eczema, food allergens, Fragrance Allergens, lavender fragrance allergen, linalyl acetate, Methylisothiazolinone, Papain, papaya allergy, patch testing, plant-based pepsin, preservatives

Whey to go?

Alex March 8, 2015 0 Comments

“In Italy we used to bathe babies in this,” said my mother, carrying a large pot of watery yellow whey towards the kitchen sink. She had just made a little bowl of fresh, stiff ricotta cheese (very easy — bring a couple of…
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Eczema, Food Allergens

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Ruth’s on fire!

Alex February 9, 2015 0 Comments

Many of you will know Ruth Holroyd for her prolific blog – What Allergy – which tackles everything from celery allergy, anaphylaxis and eating out with allergies, to (safe) beer drinking, oxygen therapy and free from food. She’s a great…
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Eczema

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