MINI RESEARCH ARTICLES FOR HERBAL SKIN CARE MAKING
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Gotu Kola in Skin Care: A Herbalist's Critique of the Reductionist View of Centella Asiatica
Recently I got a chance to listen to a short lecture on gotu kola (Centella asiatica), delivered by representatives of a global cosmetic ingredients manufacturing company. The popularity of gotu ko...
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Pairing botanical oils with herbal constituents for herbal skin care
What herbal constituents get extracted into herbal infused oils? I have been pondering this question for a long time. “But you have a PhD in chemistry – shouldn’t you be able to figure this out?!” ...
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On the detrimental lack of interdisciplinary discourse in (herbal) science: A podcast invitation
Recently I was interviewed by Stephanie Hazel on the Elder Tree podcast. Originally, she approached me with a topic of skin and sensuality. However, after a phone call during which we got all excit...
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4 reasons folk herbalists should NOT disregard herbal science
There is no such thing as a simple definition of science. It is one of the ways of acquiring knowledge. In the Western culture, science has been extremely successful at establishing itself as the m...
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