Soapy Hollow

First, let me say that yes, I do realize that almost a year’s worth of content has suddenly dropped off the server. I don’t know what happened either.  I’m frantically checking backups and server logs.  Content will be restored as soon as I can find it.
In other news:

NSF International’s Standard for Personal Care Products [...]

The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, (H.R. 5786) passed by the House of Representatives into committee, is starting to look like it is going to be a reality, not in small part due to the lobbying of very large cosmetics concerns who would like the House to stop artisans from competing with them. You can [...]

Colin Sanders has posted a long and informative article on cosmetics, skin absorption  and the long term effects therein over at the Personal Care site. Colin Sanders has been a formulator of cosmetic and topical pharmaceuticals for 27 years and an active member of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists since [...]

You know the big difference between me and nanotech researchers?  I have never once been at a carnival with a big ball of spun sugar and thought “Wow, I could make nanofibers with that cotton candy machine!”
But that’s just what happened with the bioengineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as [...]

One of the groovy things about science is that obscure discoveries can suddenly become world-changing.
As an example; examine the organic material called a Janus dendrimer. Janus was the dual-faced Roman god. Dendron is the Greek word for ‘tree’ or many branches. A dendrimer is a molecular sphere with many branches forming the [...]