#scaremongers

Why you should stop putting MSDS sheets on your gel polish website.

The recent coverage in the media of reactions to nail gel polishes is not really news. This is something that people in the business know about and have been talking about for a long time. There are also a lot of ordinary consumers who have been following it in Facebook groups as well. I could probably get a pretty decent blog post out of the whole thing, but I’ll stick to one aspect of…

The recent scare story about gel nail polish is a good case study for how to deal with a adverse press.

Last Friday there was an article on Radio 4’s Today programme that caught my attention. It talked about the risks of acrylates in nail polishes and reactions to them. Dermatologists are concerned. Products from China are a problem. It all sounded pretty scary. As is usually the case, the Daily Mail weighed in. (more…)

J&J Finally Win A Court Case Over Talc

Does talc cause cancer? It is pretty unlikely. I’ve covered before the cases where Johnson and Johnson have had huge damages awarded against them. This is due to the suggestion that the talc they sell contains asbestos, and that this has increased the risk of users getting cancer as a result. Continue reading

The Toxic Makeup Scam

I’m a chemist, and chemicals are my friends. So I always get a little upset when journalists pick on them. It’s particularly upsetting when it is the Guardian that is doing so. The Guardian has a reputation for being the most accurate of the UK newspapers, a reputation that in my experience is usually well founded. But they’ve let themselves down with an article exposing the presence of what they…