The Breakthrough in Beauty 2009 global search is now actively accepting and reviewing submissions. Beauty entrepreneurs can submit innovative beauty products and ideas for consideration to become the next $100 million beauty brand. The annual Breakthrough in Beauty search identifies the top innovative new beauty products in the world. After evaluating thousands of promising entries, […]

Even those of us who are wise in years, and experienced business operators get scammed.  It’s way more embarrassing, because by dint of graying temples and crone stick of wizened wisdom, we expect ourselves to be smarter than that.  But draw your chairs closer children, and I’ll tell you the sad story of how I […]

A former L’Oreal executive has accused the company of using ingredients in markets where they are banned and of selling products that contain unlawfully high levels of preservatives. Jerome Chevalier, the former head of regulatory affairs for L’Oreal, claims that he was harassed and ultimately dismissed by L’Oreal USA after he complained about the company’s […]

As I’ve noted before, Instructables has changed their business model, reducing access to content to non-paid visitors. Since all of my work was published under a Creative Commons non-commercial license, I’ve removed it from Instructables and am republishing it here, so the content stays free. Keeping in mind folks with data stream limits, I’ve used […]

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, July 22, 2008, starting at 1 p.m. EST for interested stakeholders to provide an open forum to solicit feedback on the establishment of the BioPreferred voluntary labeling program.  This program will allow USDA to authorize manufacturers and vendors of qualifying biobased products to […]

Don’t you hate those mornings when none of your clothes fit, everyone is driving you up a wall and you could crochet chain mail from the Dove wrappers scattered around your comfy chair? Yeah….PMS sucks. This morning, after threatening to sell my small child to the gypsies…and his little dog too…I realized that perhaps I […]

The past decade has seen an explosion of small, independent soap, fragrance and cosmetics companies emerge from the kitchens and basements of America. Creative entrepreneurs have conjured up a myriad of offerings from bath fizzies to sugar scrubs and spa products to mineral makeup.  All of those products were introduced to the market by small […]