FreeFrom Skin Care Awards……..
Well, we were keeping these a deep, dark secret and had planned not to spill the beans until later this month, but Amy, our lovely American intern who is running our social media sites, thought she...
View ArticleSome ‘freefrom’ food award statistics – and ‘freefrom’ skincare awards news!
I am not very good on statistics (something to do with me not being very good at maths?….) and spend far less time than I should on checking which of you read what on our sites. But yesterday Cressida...
View ArticleJudging the FreeFrom Skincare Awards…
I am not sure what I expected when I sat down for our initial judging of the products entered for this year’s first ever FreeFrom Skincare Awards… It was obviously going to be a very different...
View ArticleSuccess markers for Micki Rose’s barrier plan for multiple food intolerance
Many of you will have followed Micki Rose’s long search for a way to deal with her own (and many of her patients’) devastating and debilitating food sensitivities which has culminated in her ‘Barrier...
View ArticleChocolate – again….
I just caught the tail end of a report on the radio this morning about yet another benefit of chocolate – apparently it can cut the rate of stroke in women. (See the report in the Journal of the...
View ArticleExperience is vital to understanding
Many of you will have read about Clare’s predicament either here in my blog or on the FoodsMatter site. Clare suffers from almost total food intolerance – she is now reduced to about four foods,...
View ArticleGetting your head around Facebook….
Did you know…..? • In October 2012, the countries with the most Facebook users were: United States with 166.1 million members Brazil with 58.4 million members India with 55.3 million members •...
View Article2013 FreeFrom Skincare Awards shortlist – bathing in beauty balms!
A very small selection of the 200+ products that were entered into this year’s FreeFrom Skincare Awards – and which we spent two very long, balm-filled and fragrant days judging last week. By the end...
View ArticleAllergy Show gets rolling with the presentation of the FreeFrom Skincare Awards
Like ‘freefrom’ in general the Allergy and FreeFrom Show continues on its upward trajectory! Yesterday’s opening day in the larger – and much nicer – National Hall at Olympia was packed with keen...
View ArticleThe Allergy and FreeFrom Show 2013 – food and skincare
2013 Allergy and FreeFrom Show? Packed – humming – hectic – and that was at 10.30 in the morning. Come 1.30 – try rammed, jammed and ‘don’t leave your stand as you will never get back’… To be fair,...
View ArticleLovely Liverpool – and a really good show…
What a great city! And what lovely friendly people! Just do not ever try to get there up the M6 on a Friday night….. Our introduction to said friendliness was a taxi driver who found us (Cressida, Alex...
View Article#SBS (Small Business Sunday…) and other social media-ery
Dragon’s Den would not be on my ‘must watch’ list of programmes (t’be honest, not a lot is…) but I do admire Theo Phaphitis for having done some really imaginative brand extension with his #SBS – or...
View ArticleThe Allergy Show struts its stuff in the Grand Hall at Olympia
I do love Victorian ironwork. Whether it is the soaring arches of St Pancras Station, the Palm House at Kew or – the Grand Hall at Olympia. And, in terms of ‘grand’, you cannot get much grander than...
View ArticleThe Telegraph needs to get a grip of the facts
Dr James le Fanu’s weekly roundup in today’s Telegraph carries the following : Sue Hattersley, head of the department at the Food Standards Agency responsible for imposing the “bureaucratic nightmare”...
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