About Realize Beauty – The Blog
Realize Beauty came into being one balmy evening in February 2008. I had left the corporate cosmetics world two months before and had been playing with ideas relating to my feelings towards the beauty industry and the term ‘natural’ and how that related to cosmetic products and science. I wanted to share my passion for the scientific side of beauty with people and explore its depth.
My mission started to take shape and so did my writing. My ‘science journalism’ blog soon became a place to explore ideas, to educate and entertain! As a scientist and writer I have always believed that my job is less about preaching (being) and more about teaching (exploring/ doing). Over the years the blog has become an invaluable platform from which to stimulate open and honest dialogue. It has allowed me to model the process of scientific thinking, a practice where conceptions, ideas and ‘truths’ are probed, interrogated and sometimes challenged systematically and without prejudice. It has also been a great place from which to encourage practical experimentation and deeper study. Mostly it has developed into a playground for those who prefer to dive in deep and scratch around, for the explorers, the truth seekers, the inventors and the artists.
Today Realize Beauty is a successful consulting company focused on science communication, product development and testing, teaching and the creation of science-based content for sales and marketing.
Realize Beauty is owned and Directed by Amanda Foxon-Hill, a professional cosmetic chemist who has been working in the cosmetic industry since 1997.
Thank you for stopping by and taking an interest in our business and passion.
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I love your site. Keep it up !
Amanda…hats off to you…great stuff…will be sure to check out your site every week.
NL
I love this site I am a total advocate to natural products not only for adults but all the recent press re the chemicals in baby cosmetics have opened my eyes to what goes in these products
Hi Veronica,
Thanks for the feedback. I think that accurate information is the key to an empowered consumer. We try to arm people with a good understanding of the ingredients that go into cosmetic products so that they can make the best choice for them. Power to the people!
Amanda check this out as well for the Cosmion products.
cut and paste it into your browser.
http://www.giantbrothers.com/blog/?p=209. Password is “cosmion”
Yay, what a great blog!
I am consistently impressed by the quality of Realize Beauty. Every time I visit I am overwhelmed with excellent information that I gladly pass on to my friends. I am going to subscribe in my Google Reader so I can follow more closely. Keep up the amazing work, RB team!
Dear Amanda,
Thank you for our mention on your website! If you would like some of our products please send me your address.
Kind regards,
Crystal.
hey. i’ve been hanging around this website for a while – it was time to say how great this place is:)
Cool site, love the info.
This site rocks!
Hi,
Love your blog! Would you be interested in reviewing my product “Beautiful Skin” on your blog? I would be happy to send a few bottles thru’ for you to try and to give away to your readers, in exchange for a blog review….
Check it out at:
http://www.beautifulskinbyrenee.com/
Cheers,
Renee
Thank you for your kind words. I am always happy to be made aware of new products and will e-mail you about how we can make that happen!
Thank you so much for featuring Realize Your Radiance on your website. I hope you’ll come and check it out for yourself. If you do, please introduce yourself to me. If you don’t let’s talk about connecting some other time.
Thanks again,
Kim
http://www.realizeyourradiance.com/
Hi Kim,
I would love to come but it’s a long way from Australia. Maybe next year as it sounds like such a good event.
Hi, love the site, some really interesting posts.
I ‘used to be’ a cosmetic chemist aswell until I decided to get out of the lab and into the marketing!!!
I have a link to you from my site as one of my favourite beauty blogs.
Looking forward to more great stuff x
Hi, me again. Just wanted to give you the right link!…..oooops!
Thanks Louise,
Great to hear that you like it and thanks for the link – I will check it out! Your support is much appreciated
Great post, Very informative…
You have got great content here! I look forward to looking around. My “day job” is with a major beauty company, but I am not biased completely! I like to see the results from other companies as well. My blog is “not” about the beauty industry, but women’s lives and issues, come for a visit!
Hi Amanda met you today at the Maxted Thomas event, great site, can’t wait to see the book! 🙂
Have a fantastic week!
Jade
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Great to meet you, your blog is very sweet! Looking forward to reading more from you too.
Wow, I’m so happy to find some smart sites about smart beauty. I look forward to reading more!
Hi Amanda,
I have been in the Industry at retail level for a while and love your concept and vision. It helps when something is lead with education, empowerment and fun. Look forward to your book and getting your blog
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Arun Kedia
VAV Life Sciences
Would love some more please! It’s an interesting twist on the trend towards food based ingredients. Thanks
This blog–by a CHEMIST, not a teenager– is exactly the kind of thing that beauty consumers need to make informed decisions in their product usage. I was very impressed with the intelligent but elegantly simple way you broke down the research findings about cyclopentasiloxane and silicones in general. As a medical student and former biochemistry student in undergrad, I love foraging for and reviewing the research about the ingredients in my cosmetics and searching for safer alternatives, but have found tons of misinformation on the internet from folks who seek to explain the different chemicals but don’t have the proper background. Hats off to you for the wonderful service you provide for beauty consumers everywhere!
I just put you in my reader! We have similar visions, although, I adore my slow cookers and have many sizes. I can heat and hold all the water I need in one day and have it ready when I want to, in a sanitized vessel, transfer it and add the goodies that need to go with it, before I mix emulsions. Three settings is the key. Of course I have children. They are not allowed in the formulary, but sometimes they actually want me to, GASP!!!! feed them!!! hehe.
Really interesting stuff you have on here. I am now currently following this blog. As someone who has recently stepped foot in the beauty industry, I am constantly trying to find the middle ground between the effectiveness of science and the wisdom of nature. I’m not a chemist or a scientist, so I’ve been looking for informative sources that will be easy for the average person to understand. This is the kind of informative unbiased viewpoint that I’ve been looking for. Cheers!
Hi Kareen,
Thank you so much for those kind words. I do my best to sum up the science as it currently stands but urge everyone to do their own thinking before deciding what is best for them. There is a lot of mis-information out there and a lot of preaching, neither of which I’m a fan of. I hope that you continue to enjoy the blog.
This is very interesting to me as small entrepreneuer. We have dragon fruit and aloe.
just found your blog, I love it!
WOW !!!! I love you already Amanda……… I can hear your passion & share it. I have been a beauty therapist since 1985 & a parfum junkie forever !!!! Loveing your blog 😉
Well thanks for that Maryanne and welcome along!
Thanks Amanda…..I have always had a secret desire to “do” a little skin care range. Having worked for a long time with high quality, effective, results driven (& very expensive European cosmetics).
I know what I like to feel, smell & find, in a skincare product. And know within the very first application onto a skin, if it worthy or not.
Back in the day( late 70s,mid 80’s), Hungarian pharamcist Ella Bache had an extrodinary range. Just delivered results all the way, within days of using her potions !. Her Creme Tomate, Creme Allantion, Herbal Creme, & her dynamic Masque Sanquin. All extrodinary !
I would love to put together a small range of 6 products to a high standard.Not something that just smells nice & is ‘fluffy’ to use. To put together something that “works”, & has the “wow” factor. To work along side someone that can help me understand more about pharmacuticals & its relationship with skin. Are you my girl ? 😉
Hi Maryanne,
Well who knows. Creating custom formulations is a big part of what we do here at Realize Beauty so we might be able to do something. Send me an email on my amanda@realizebeauty.com account and we can go from there. A range of 6 products will be quite expensive but just like Ella Bache, I’m sure you will find the investment worth while.
I like what your blog stands for. You have a follow from me.
How lovely! Thank you 🙂
I love you already Amanda
You have a good site 🙂
Im a big fan of your site.
Keep on going
Kuss
Tina Wimpernverlängerung
Wonderful posts. Thank you for sharing your story and passion.
I’m loving your integrity and style. I just want to hear everything you have to say. Thank you!
Thank you so much. That’s lovely to hear.
Hello! New here and on my phone. Is there an index of blog posts or table of contents? Perhaps it’s on a desktop version? Thanks!
Not sure about your phone but when I view it on mine there is a search bar you can use to type in keywords to search. I’m not sure beyond that.