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Clean Beauty Is Wrong and Won’t Give Us Safer Products

November 14, 2020 By Michelle 31 Comments

Clean Beauty Is Wrong and Won’t Give Us Safer Products

If you use beauty products, it’s impossible to not have heard of clean beauty. It’s a revolution. You want your products to be clean – you don’t want to use dirty products! You want your products to be good for your health and good for the environment. There are beautiful celebrities telling you about how…

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Filed Under: Analysis, Critical Thinking, Rant, Science, Skincare, Video Tagged With: analysis, chemistry, controversial ingredients, critical thinking, health, mythbusting, natural, rant, science, video

Sunscreens in your blood??! That FDA study

May 9, 2019 By Michelle 16 Comments

Sunscreens in your blood??! That FDA study

You’ve probably seen the recent influx of articles about the new FDA sunscreen study, usually titled something like “sunscreens can make it to your bloodstream!” The study itself is fine and good and necessary as a first step in the FDA’s new zeal for sunscreen regulation. But the more I read the coverage around it,…

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Filed Under: Analysis, Health, Rant, Science, Skincare Tagged With: analysis, chemistry, health, rant, science, sun protection

Amodimethicone: The Science of My Favourite Hair Ingredient

March 1, 2019 By Michelle 29 Comments

Amodimethicone: The Science of My Favourite Hair Ingredient

Since I bleached my hair and dyed it purple (and am now slowly shifting to pink), my hair care needs have changed massively. Typical straight, black East Asian hair naturally has low porosity, with the outside cuticle lying very flat. This means that water and other ingredients don’t go in or out of the hair…

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Filed Under: Analysis, Hair, Review, Science Tagged With: analysis, chemistry, hair, review, science

Skincare Chemistry: How to pick out humectants

January 3, 2019 By Michelle 7 Comments

Skincare Chemistry: How to pick out humectants

I recently posted an excerpt from The Lab Muffin Guide to Basic Skincare on my Instagram and Facebook (which is one of many useful tables in my eBook by the way, and it’s packed full of information on the super important fundamentals of science-based skincare – although I’m obviously biased since I wrote it and…

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Filed Under: Analysis, Science, Skincare, Tutorial Tagged With: active ingredients, analysis, chemistry, moisturser, science, skincare, tutorial

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Hi! I'm Michelle, chemistry PhD and science educator, and I'm here to help you figure out which beauty products are worth buying, and which ones aren't using science!

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