While the Beauty Brains may have been the first cosmetic chemists to start a beauty blog, we are no longer the only ones. Here are a few of our fellow scientists writing about the chemistry & science of beauty products. 
5 More Sciencey Beauty Blogs
1. Colin’s Beauty Pages – Written by a UK-based cosmetic scientist. Colin reviews products, beauty advice, and the science behind beauty and attraction. He’s currently writing a book on the science of beauty and you can see some excerpts on the blog.
2. The b-spot Nikita is a cosmetic chemist who works as a consultant to the industry. She also has a regular column in the prestigous Cosmetics & Toiletries magazine, one of the top publications for cosmetic science professionals. She gives an insider’s view of the cosmetic industry.
3. Science of beauty – Here’s a site that discusses the science behind beauty products from the perspective of a university professor. Joanne doesn’t work in the beauty industry but she loves beauty products & knows a thing or two about chemistry. Be sure to see her video experiments.
4. Natural Haven – Written by JC, a natural haired scientist based in UK who does not work for any cosmetic company, but is well-versed in the latest beauty research published in scientific journals like the Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. Definitely worth checking out.
5. Chemists Corner – This website is a teaching resource for people interested in learning to become a cosmetic scientist. If you are curious about what chemists need to know to develop beauty products, this is the place for you.
Are you a cosmetic chemist / scientist or formulator with a blog? Leave a message below and we’ll add you to the list.
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This is a lovely post, I was not aware of a single onw of these blogs!
None of these touch BeautyBrains! Colin’s beauty pages is not that great. It’s a lot of wild speculation and is completely heterosexist. Thanks for the other ones though!
Wouldn’t trust anything Colin has to write after the debacle as a guest on Beutybrains(should’ve done your research as well). His nonexistent research on Is Meat Eating Bad for your Skin prompted Jenny Q to write:
I’m a MD, I’d love to love you guys, but you are sometimes sloppy. Those studies your guy references AREN’T ABOUT THE ISSUE asked. Talk about sloppy inference. It’s not hard to find these studies referenced below (and many others). Why the cherry picking? Such poor science.
How bout this:
http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/71#F2
Here’s the easy to-the-point graph:
http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/71/F2
Thanks for the kind words Carmen. We’ve definitely been doing this longer than all of those new bloggers. We just like to encourage the voices of other scientists to be heard.
@Tristan – you make a good point but Colin does provide a slightly different perspective on different topics. Some of his stuff is worth reading and will make you think. He does gloss over the science a bit much for my tastes but it is a blog after all, not peer reviewed research.
Bloggers (especially ones that haven’t done any professional writing) rely on the conversation to help keep them in line when or if they’ve made glaring errors.
Thanks for this list, I’m eager to look at all of these sites. Esp. excited about The Science of Beauty.
Excellent list! I recently discovered Natural Haven and quite like it. And the Chemists Corner is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for! I have to agree about Colin’s blog, unfortunately — not much there that’s truly news to those of us who read a lot about beauty and cosmetics. And nobody touches The Beauty Brains for quality!
Thanks to the Beauty Brains for the mention, which was much appreciated. I am sorry my blog doesn’t seem to appeal to everyone, but when you offer something up for public viewing you can’t complain if people don’t like it.
To reply to Tristan, I confess that I hadn’t picked up that particular paper. If that qualifies as a debacle scale oversight then I must say I respect the high standards you hold.
With regard to the paper itself, I have to say that it doesn’t change the conclusions I came to. I spent some time familiarising myself with multiple linear regression a few years ago in order to solve problems similar to the one that paper tries to investigate. I started with high hopes for it as a technique, but I found it had many drawbacks. In particular the way you appear to be able to quantify the effect of different factors is beguiling. The trouble is you generate some data and then apply the technique, and you get some numbers. There is a great temptation to think you have something meaningful when in fact you don’t. This is particularly problematical if you look at lots of factors at the same time and ignore interactions between the different factors. In that paper they did not find any association between smoking and skin wrinkling. I find that very hard to believe, so I feel quite entitled to reject their conclusion that meat eating is factor that leads to skin wrinkles.
But thanks again for drawing this paper to my attention. I enjoyed reading it – I may even do a blog post on it when I have some time.
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