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we can look up other common ingredients that cause allergic reactions...ie arbutin

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!

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

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.

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...