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A comment on the 2024 EWG Sunscreen Guide; Is EWG actively harming safe consumer sun protection?

The Eco Well Blog

Or are they putting these guides out as a fear marketing campaign to promote the EWG seal program (which makes them money)? But these EWG narratives aren't going to help get new ingredients approved. For example, with their claims about ingredient stability where they comment that there are projected efficacy losses of 50/25/0%.

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How can you find a cheaper natural lip balm? Episode 161

The Beauty Brains

I’m also wondering if you can tell me if there’s anything else on the market that might be similar to this because this is very expensive. Bite Beauty, in case you’re not aware, is a Toronto based company that hand crafts lip products using “food-grade, or good-enough-to-eat ingredients.”

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How Energy Drinks Are Draining Your Brain’s Power

Aesthetics Advisor

The makers of these drinks promise that ingredients like caffeine, amino acids, and herbal extracts will deliver superhuman focus and motivation by the sip. However, it wasn’t until the massive marketing campaigns of Red Bull in Austria and beyond in the late 1980s-90s that energy drinks really took off globally.

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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.” “UPFs contain little or no whole foods and are often energy dense, high in salt, sugar and fat, low in fibre, and liable to overconsumption,” the scientists note.

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Is Your Shampoo Making You Sick?

Aesthetics Advisor

Under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, products do not require FDA approval before being sold on the market. 5 Chemicals in Personal Care Products May Poison Water Supplies One of every eight of the more than 84,000 ingredients in personal care products are pesticides, reproductive toxins, hormone disruptors or industrial chemicals.

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Balancing the Skin Biome

The Dermatology Digest

acnes back in 2012, Dr. Huiying Li at UCLA…published a paper 1 that really opened my eyes to the importance of C. Rebooting the Biome: How Properly Caring for Your Skin Biome Can Do More for Your Health and Beauty Than Any Skincare Ingredient on the Market. And so when we looked at C. acnes as a species. [It]

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Buyer Beware: Most Collagen Supplements Sourced From CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations)

Aesthetics Advisor

In a nutshell, if a collagen or bone broth protein product is not certified organic, it is very likely the primary ingredients are sourced from animals raised in CAFOs. 2012 January;36(1):61-67 22 Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2013 March;32(1):41-52 21 J Ginseng Res.