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Ingredient Atlas
Ingredient origins, textures and practical answers about cosmetic labels.
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Solid Cosmetics School
Practical lessons for using, storing and travelling with solid cosmetics.
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Which One? Comparison Studio
Clear comparisons for the cosmetics you use, the routines you enjoy and the gifts you give.
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Gift & Gifting Encyclopedia
300 articles about thoughtful gifts: people, occasions, traditions, beautiful presentation and words that feel like you.
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Body Cleansing Explained
Does your skin feel tight after the towel? Are you choosing a bar, or wondering where to put it when it’s wet? Start with the part of the shower you’d like to make easier.
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Ingredient Atlas
Candelilla wax
A wax coating on slender desert stems can become the firm edge of a balm. The pleasure comes when that support still allows an easy stroke.
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Behentrimonium methosulfate
A conditioner bar has to deliver its conditioning system through a useful texture. Behentrimonium methosulfate and its supporting ingredients help explain how the small solid does that work.
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Bisabolol
Chamomile is a familiar doorway into bisabolol, but the named ingredient can come by several routes.
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Black pepper essential oil
The pepper mill gives away two experiences at once: a fragrance rising from the crushed spice and a bite arriving with the food.
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Berry wax
Some waxes help a stick stand firm; a softer wax can help it give a pleasant stroke. Berry wax adds that yielding personality to the texture conversation.
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Bergamot mint essential oil
Bergamot mint sends the imagination towards a citrus fruit, then leads you to a leafy herb instead.
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Bergamot peel essential oil
Bergamot can bring to mind a curl of citrus peel or the fragrant lift of Earl Grey tea. Follow that familiar scent into a bar and the story becomes more...
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Bentonite clay
A quiet-looking clay powder can change the movement of water. Bentonite’s most interesting scene begins when its layered minerals become properly dispersed and hydrated.
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Beeswax
Before it shapes a balm, beeswax gives a colony places to raise young and store food. That first building job makes the everyday swipe more interesting.
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Sodium bicarbonate
A dry bath product keeps its ingredients waiting. Water changes the scene: sodium bicarbonate can join an acid in the familiar rush of fizz.
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Argan oil
Inside an argan fruit, a hard nut protects the kernels that supply the oil. Opening those kernels brings the story close to skilled hands, working Moroccan landscapes and the flowing...
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Aloe leaf juice
An aloe leaf invites you to look inside: an outer rind, a clear gel-like interior, and several possible processing routes.
