Monthly Archives: September 2010

Reading Soap Labels

In conducting research on the ingredients in cosmetics and household products, I was fascinated to find that many ingredients are not listed on household products. Lysol, for example, only says "Active ingredient: Hydrochloric acid 9.5%", but that doesn't explain what the blue colour is. Looking briefly online, I was unable…

Food as Nourishment (and nothing more)

Nicole, a local nutritionist and the co-author of the book we're working on regarding overall health and emotional attachments to food, came by my place on Wednesday so that we could work on the book. We ended up spending 6.5 hours working on the book (and on another project we…