Ordinary makeup ingredients with an element of surprise

Friday, August 29, 2014 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

Common ingredients in cosmetics often hide in plain sight on the product label because of an international movement to establish uniform names, based in science and Latin. So wheat germ, prized for its vitamin E, becomes Triticum vulgare, and oatmeal, crucial to face masks through the ages,...

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