The Journal
Botanical ingredients, formulation, traditional preparations, skin science and evidence.
Vitamin E appears on countless skincare labels, but the ingredient hiding behind those two familiar words is not always the same. Tocopherol and tocopheryl acetate both belong to the vitamin E story, yet differences in their chemistry affect their stability, antioxidant behaviour and role within a cosmetic formulation.
Read the articleAt fifty I have finally let rose into my skincare cabinet properly. I had been resisting it for years, partly on principle (the marketing around rose is some…
Read the articleAt fifty, skin behaves differently. Oestrogen falls, collagen production slows, the lipid barrier becomes less reliable, and the small mistakes that did not matter at thirty start to…
Read the articleOne of the questions I’ve been asked most often since talking about Botanicals & Co is why the very first qualification I’m taking is in aromatherapy. After all,…
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