Skip to main content

Home/ Adv Chem Yellow 1/ Group items tagged allergies

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Katie Rigdon

Allergies and Cosmetics - 2 views

www.webmd.com/...cosmetics

chemistry cosmetic allergies fragrances

shared by Katie Rigdon on 16 Oct 12 - Cached
  • Katie Rigdon on 16 Oct 12
     
    Interesting article about causes of skin allergies from WebMD. Looks like fragrances can play a big part in allergies and it also looks like there are some things that you can do to prevent these allergic reactions.
  • Andrew Kang on 16 Oct 12
     
    Interesting - but we have to be careful not to stray into the biology of allergies when explaining why they occur.
Amanda Jara

Skin Deep - Gold Face Cream - A Costly Leap of Faith - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...27skinWEB.html

shared by Amanda Jara on 14 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • Amanda Jara
      Amanda Jara on 14 Oct 12
       
      we can look up other common ingredients that cause allergic reactions...ie arbutin
    • Katie Rigdon
      Katie Rigdon on 16 Oct 12
       
      I think allergies could be a really interesting topic to add to our blog because, like Jenny said, we are kind of all over the place and I think we need some topics so skin allergies (to things in cosmetics) could be one of them!
    • Jenny Mu
      Jenny Mu on 16 Oct 12
       
      But we also have to keep the topic focused on chemistry, and allergies could really easily go into biology or something like that. but there is a chemistry side to allergies too, so maybe that could work
    • Andrew Kang
      Andrew Kang on 16 Oct 12
       
      The article kept stressing the benefits of colloidal gold as opposed to gold in flakes or just applied to the skin. Perhaps we could look at nanochemistry in cosmetics - it was nanoparticles that gave the colloidal cream its advantage and with anything you apply to your skin perhaps there is consideration given to the substance on the molecular scale for its efficacy.
    • Jenny Mu
      Jenny Mu on 17 Oct 12
       
      But we should also consider the element itself. Whether in nanoparticles or in flakes, what scientific evidence is there that gold is good for the skin? Or is it just one big, expensive scam...
Jenny Mu

INGREDIENTS: Figuring out what's "hypo-allergenic" and "non-comedogenic" - 0 views

www.ingredientsofstyle.com/...whats-hypo-allergenic-and.html

chemistry cosmetic ingredients allergies

shared by Jenny Mu on 17 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Jenny Mu on 17 Dec 12
     
    This is an easy to read, interesting blog post about the usage of worlds like "hypo-allergenic" and "non-comedogenic" on cosmetics, and what it actually means chemically for products to be labelled with those words. This kind of addresses what we were talking about on the simvastatin article, about cosmetics that can help clear skin Things that are non-comedogenic do not necessarily clear skin, but they do not cause acne. We could start there, looking at chemical compounds in cosmetics that can cause acne and that don't cause acne and then look into how to treat it.  
1 - 3 of 3
Showing 20▼ items per page