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New Studies Examine Safety of UV Curing for Fingernail Coatings
This technical article was written for the Radtech Report, a magazine that specializes in UV curing applications. This article reviews two studies commissioned by the Nail Manufacturers Council (NMC)...
View ArticlePregnancy and Artificial Nail Coatings
When your clients discover they’re pregnant, one of the first questions they will ask nail professionals is, “Can I keep wearing my nail enhancements during my pregnancy?” The answer is YES; they can...
View ArticleUV Nail Lamps Tested and Found Safe by Two Leading UV Experts Dr. John Dowdy...
A comprehensive scientific study concerning the safety of UV nail units (aka UV nail lamps) has just been published and it is VERY important for several reasons. 1. This is the first study to compare...
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Continued Progress Made by International Cooperation on Cosmetics Regulation...
The ICCR is an international group of regulatory authorities for cosmetics from Canada, the European Union, the United States, and Japan. The goal of this multilateral framework is to maintain the...
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New Sunscreen Monograph for Canada
Health Canada recently announced the release of the final Sunburn Protectants Monograph, dated July 7, 2013 Version 2.0. The document is titled “Sunscreen Monograph” to reflect the common term used by...
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Two Leading UV Researchers Determine That UV Nail Lamps Are Safe
A scientific study was just released by two of the leading experts on UV and skin exposure. They are the first to “properly” test UV nail lamps to the Internationally Accepted Standards. These results...
View ArticleThe Game of Fear: Cosmetic Activism Gone Wild!
I received yet another e-mail from an anti-cosmetic activist group asking me to donate money to their “cause”. This is the third such e-mail in the last few weeks. It doesn’t matter which particular...
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October Two-Day EU Cosmetic Safety Assessment Seminar Cosmetic Safety...
This is the first seminar of this type that I’m aware of being held in the US and it promises to be important for anyone interested in learning HOW to prepare EU cosmetic product safety reports (CPSR)...
View ArticleThe Natural Nail
This month’s Education Update is focused entirely on the natural nail. You may not realize it, but over the past several months I’ve regularly posted on Facebook some pretty cool images related to the...
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Beiersdorf Rapped Over Misleading Ad
Cosmetic and personal care marketers must be more vigilant to avoid misleading or exaggerated claims. Marketing is supposed to be the “Truth Well Told”, yet many marketers seem to think they have a...
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Health Canada New Cosmetic Notification Form
Health Canada has developed a new Cosmetic Notification Form which allows users to save the form with data, validate ingredients before submitting the notification via the Internet. Click here to...
View ArticleRisks of Improperly Curing Nail Coatings
Recently, I recommended to a group of nail professionals that they should NOT try every new nail product that comes along, especially if it is a UV cure nail coating product. Nail professionals are...
View ArticleWant to make £1million (1.6 million US Dollars) the easy way?
All you have to do is identify a truly chemical-free product. That should be pretty easy with so many companies claiming to have “chemical-free” products. A £1million bounty was offered for UK’s first...
View ArticleWant to make £1million (1.1 million US Dollars) the easy way?
Want to make £1million (1.1 million US Dollars) the easy way? All you have to do is identify a truly chemical-free product. That should be pretty easy with so many companies claiming to have...
View ArticleKeep These Out of Salons!
In my view, two of the biggest problems facing the professional beauty industry could best be solved by salon professionals! These two big problems are tightly interlinked; you might say they’re...
View ArticleFear-Based Activist Groups Propose Faulty Cosmetic Regulations
Fear-Based Activist Groups Propose Faulty Cosmetic Regulations Once again, the so-called “Safe Cosmetics Act” has been introduced by fear-based activist groups that don’t understand the industry or the...
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Salon Education Now Enhanced by Wearable Technology
Matrix has adopted the Google Glass device to modernize their education efforts in a three phase effort to better educated salon professionals. This initiative likely could lead the way toward changing...
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Teacher reveals the ingredients of normal foods to de-bunk the myth of...
Does this high school chemistry teacher and his students know something about “chemicals” that fear-based activist groups don’t know? Of course not. These groups know they are INTENTIONALLY distorted...
View ArticleCan UV Nail Gels Be Over Cured?
Yes, but over curing is avoidable. It happens in two ways; 1) too much UV energy is used or 2) the nail coating is exposed to significant levels of UV after leaving the salon. In other words, UV...
View ArticleGlobal Cosmetic Harmonization: Will it Become a Reality?
A gathering of regulatory organizations and trade associations in Brussels (September 26-28) could lead to regulatory harmonization in the beauty, cosmetic and personal care industry, at least that’s...
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