Doesn’t your lip gloss make your lips look bigger and your face more youthful? Of course, it would be great if it were organic, too. The truth is, however, that there is no certified organic lip gloss (or makeup for that matter). We may call it “organic” because of its certified ingredients, such as botanical …
After the very first try, I was addicted. I have no idea how I lived without this water-resistant brow pomade before. This product not only colors my brows but also conditions them to stimulate hair growth. In addition, it helps me achieve natural-looking yet silky, shapely, and luxurious eyebrows. If you use brow makeup, this …
How do you choose a shampoo? For example, you can go by looks, familiarity, price, recommendation, habit, performance, and/or advertisement. And how should you choose a shampoo? The answer is – by ingredients. I have been reading shampoo ingredients since 2012 and published my study of over a hundred shampoos. It will help you choose …
Do you prefer a foaming shampoo to a non-foaming one? Me, too! The ingredient that creates lather is called a surfactant, or cleansing agent. In this post, you will learn about cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine – one of many newly emerging surfactants that is especially popular in shampoos for curly hair. In addition, you will see it …
Like many straight-haired women, I considered curly hair a blessing and never thought it could cause any trouble to its owner. Neither did I think that curly hair needed any special products or way of treatment. When DevaCurl came around, all the curly ladies out there started having a good hair day 365 days a …
Manufacturers often use the word “natural” to describe products we put on our bodies or use in our homes. For example, one shampoo company boasted that their shampoo was made of 96% natural origin ingredients. Specifically, they considered the ingredients to be of natural origin if they retained more than 50% of their molecular structure …
Today you will learn about the safest shampoo that does not contain soap. How do I know that it is the safest? Well, it is a bit of a crazy story. I compared over 114 shampoos by studying each ingredient of each shampoo and then created a rating system. Thus, the 2020 Shampoo Rating List …
A morning smoothie enriched with collagen or protein powder seems like a good call, right? It is easy, fast, and, most importantly, healthy! Or so you would like to think. As it turns out, however, there are a lot of factors that can contribute to making protein powders unsafe. You want to make sure you …
Do you get upset when you notice your wrinkles? For me, it became an issue when I was in my twenties. Again and again, I visited spas in futile attempts to reverse the signs of aging. Looking back, I realize that there was not much to reverse then. Now, in my mid-forties, though I do …
One of our biggest concerns is how to safely and effectively clean and disinfect our homes, especially in the age of coronavirus. Have you ever wondered how people cleaned their homes less than a hundred years ago? There were no factories to make chemical cleaning products. Possibly, the idea to replace non-toxic cleaners with chemical …
