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Why We've Gone Gooey

Posted by Marianne Wilson on

Why We've Gone Gooey

Over the last few months, the Allergy Best Buys testing team have been busy testing Goo! Or to be more specific, MooGoo!! What's MooGoo? Founder Craig Jones noticed his mum using a thick gooey paste, intended to keep moo cow udders healthy, on her own Psoriasis. She found it effective but thick and greasy. Craig painstakingly reformulated the paste to be lighter and non-greasy - and it still kept his Mum's skin soft and supple. Other family members wanted Craig's goo too, and so he launched MooGoo, to help anyone who needed it. That was just the start - MooGoo...

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Your pillow. A hotbed of fungal spores

Posted by Janet Rhodes on

Your pillow. A hotbed of fungal spores
Research from the University of Manchester study has identified a species of fungal spore, invisible to the naked eye but “most commonly found” on pillows. This species, Aspergillus fumigatus, is a very common fungus, carried in the air as well as being found in cellars, household plant pots, compost, computers and ground pepper and spices.

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Edible insects - delicacy or allergy risk?

Posted by Janet Rhodes on

  Edible insects taste good, are nutritious and readily available. They're a popular food for more than a quarter of the world's population, mainly those living in Asia, Africa and Latin America and now there is increasing interest in insects as a source of sustainable nutrition in Western countries as well. Insects can be eaten whole or easily processed into paste, ground into flour or their protein extracted for use as an ingredient or as animal feed. In Europe, edible insects fall into the Novel Food category, Novel Food being defined as food that has not been consumed by humans in the EU to...

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Cabbage wraps for eczema, psoriasis

Posted by Janet Rhodes on

Could something as simple and natural as cabbage help your eczema? It seems that the humble green has healing properties that can help eczema and psoriasis too when applied directly to the skin.

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Pale skin or dark. What does your eczema look like?

Posted by Janet Rhodes on

 Eczema can make the skin itchy and inflamed whatever the skin tone, but it tends to redden lighter skin or make darker skin purple, grey or ashen

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