The Campaign For "Safe" Cosmetics = FAIL

Does this logo look familiar to you? Bet you've probably researched cosmetics companies and/or ingredients by perusing through the Skin Deep database. Many moons ago, I signed the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. I don't do any animal product testing, I use neither micronized ingredients, nor nanoparticles in any of my products. All was well and good with the world.About a year ago, things

TotalBeauty Saga Continues

After over 12 hours of promising a response to his TotalBeauty blunder, Emrah finally posted a response on YouTube that is completely lacking. Interestingly, his video has comments disabled. Here's the video:I've watched this video several times. First off, Mr. CEO has yet to apologize to beauty bloggers for being unprofessional, unedukatd uneducated, non-journalists. Kovacoglu states that Total

Blogger Product Review Uproar

The blogging world has been a focus of major controversy in the last couple of days. It began on Sunday, with an article published by the AP Newswire that the FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims and payments. The opinion held by the FTC is that "Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, $500 gift cards or even thousands of dollars for a 200-word post. Bloggers

What do peanut butter and cosmetics have in common?

In August 2008, I published this post about about the FDA Globalization Act of 2008. Small, independent companies such as this one were vehemently opposed to such a regulatory procedure, as the fees involved were hefty (large enough that only "big business" would be able to afford to register), and the word on the street was that we would have to disclose our ingredients on a percentage basis,

FDA Globalization Act of 2008

There is a proposed act on Capitol Hill that would effectively put all small cosmetic companies and makeup crafters out of business. It would leave you with only Big Business from which to choose - you know, the very ones that add cheap fillers and harmful additives to their products just to reduce their costs?Please read the Petition Against the FDA Globalization Act of 2008 and sign it. This