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Let’s Get Picky About Professional Skin Care Lines

California Skincare Supply

How to Choose the Right Brands for Your Beauty Business and Your Clients For the beauty professional, perhaps one of the most exciting but also intimidating aspects of building your business is choosing which products to use and retail to your clients. Most of these brands have retail products for you to use at home as well!

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What makes a cosmetic chemist – Episode 168

The Beauty Brains

Here’s a story published in the Insider back in November talking about the Luxury skin-care brand Sunday Riley and whether their founder is actually a cosmetic chemist. This type of formulation strategy is known as “hurdle technology” and a lot of natural brands are doing this. Beauty Science News What makes a cosmetic chemist?

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Vitamin C in Cosmetic Products – Does it work? episode 211

The Beauty Brains

Well, in a study published in Dermatologic Surgery back in 2001 looking at this exact question, none of the derivatives significantly converted to L-ascorbic acid in the skin. Ignoring that, is there a difference in the ascorbic acid these various brands us? There is some evidence that they might convert but this is pretty weak.

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Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Linked to Higher Cancer Risks (2024)

Aesthetics Advisor

They are aggressively marketed with strong brands to promote consumption and are gradually displacing traditional dietary patterns based on fresh and minimally processed foods.” percent of calories in the beginning of the period studied (2001–2002) to 57 percent at the end (2017–2018).

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Why Collagen Is a Proven Necessity

Aesthetics Advisor

Also, do not use JELL-O brand 35 "gelatin" snacks, as ready-to-eat JELL-O cups contain no gelatin whatsoever. 2001 Oct; 109(10): 983–994 38 Amazon JELL-O Powder Reposted from: [link] Instead, they’re using carrageenan, which can induce inflammation and contribute to a wide variety of chronic diseases. Environ Health Perspect.