cosmetics
Here's Why Brushing Your Teeth Is Bad for the Oceans
A significant amount of plastic pollution in the world's oceans comes from personal hygienic products like facial scrubs and toothpaste.
These Combinations of Everyday Chemicals Could Cause Cancer
An international group of researchers tested 85 chemicals not considered carcinogenic to humans and found about fifty of them could actually bring about cancer when combined with other chemicals.
This Woman Successfully Scammed Thousands into Buying “Magic Cheese”
Pyramid schemes are as old as magic. One elderly French woman recently managed to scam thousands of Chileans into purchasing a cheese with magical properties that have yet to come to fruition.
How Fake Skin Will End Animal Testing (as Soon as We Can Mass Produce It)
A new L'Oreal partnership with a bioprinting startup could finally end the practice.
Toxic Whiteness: Ivory Coast Has Banned Skin-Whitening Creams
Despite their popularity, many of these skin-whitening creams contain stuff that can kill you.
Scientists Have Figured Out How to Get Almost Infinite Flavor from One Grapefruit
An aromatic compound from grapefruit has tons of applications, from flavoring to insect repellant, and now we can get gallons and gallons from just a single piece of fruit.
Argan Oil Is the Best Thing to Come Out of the Backside of a Goat
Of all the touristy things to do just outside Marrakech, the most fulfilling is the trip to the argan oil collectives. There will be potions for your sun-beaten face and delicious nut butters that look vaguely like the product of a bowel disease. And...
Rich Kenyans Are Injecting Themselves with Black Market Creams to Become White
The popularity of skin-bleaching injections has rocketed over the last 18 months. The trade in black market creams and injections is completely unregulated. There is no way of knowing just how dangerous they are.
China Finally Put an End to Mandatory Animal Testing
Animal rights groups are cautiously optimistic, but not exactly euphoric.
Natural Beauty Is Just a Marketing Tool
In porn, one of the things I'm marketed as is "all natural." This phrase basically indicates that I have not had breast implants or other obvious plastic surgery. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether I've dyed the hair on my head, what...