enlightened titillation
Or, the nerdy geeky intelligent person’s guide to titivation; some cross-over with “links: titivation.” Featuring:
✪ hard-core serious knowledgey stuff (not just beauty-related): facts, science, reasoning, ethical living, and some provocation
✪ BONUS special selection of Wikipedia articles on (rational and scientific) knowledge
✪ ingredient research tools
✪ a few beautification blogs
✪ hive-mind fora and review databases (ex. MUA)
- Adbusters
- Allergies @ NHS Direct (UK)
- Allergy UK
- American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) Compassionate Shopping Guide
- American Humane Association, Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics Compassionate Shopping Guide
- Amnesty International
- Animal Rights Canada
- The Beauty Brains
- — How to Save Money on Beauty Products (ebook)
- Ben Goldacre: Bad Science
- — @ the Guardian
- — secondary blog
- British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV)–Go Cruelty Free
- Buzzle.com items on natural skin care
- Care2
- Chemists Corner: The Cosmetic Chemist’s Resource Site
- Choose Cruelty Free (AUS & NZ)
- Clean Clothes Campaign
- Colin’s Beauty Pages
- The Committee for Skeptical Enquiry (CSI)
- Compassion in World Farming
- Consumerium: Enhancing consumer informedness
- — links
- — links to like-minded projects
- ConsumerSearch Blog: Productopia
- CosDNA
- Cosmetic ingredients
- Cosmetics Business: News and Information
- CosmeticsInfo: ingredient and product database
- The Critical Thinking Community (US)
- DC’s Improbable Science
- — Links
- The Dermatology Blog
- Dermatology.ca information
- DermWeb dermatology resources
- Earthsave Canada
- EatKind
- Ecofabulous
- Eczema & dermatitis (@ Patient UK)
- Eczema @ BUPA (UK)
- Eczema @ NHS Direct (UK)
- Eczema Canada
- Eczema Society of Canada
- Eczema: UK National Eczema Society
- EczemaZones (UK)
- Essential Day Spa’s forum
- Ethical Consumer
- Ethiscore: Ethical consumer’s subscriber website
- EU cosmetic ingredient database
- Feministing
- FutureDerm.com
- Garden of Wisdom’s forum
- Gimpy’s Blog
- The Glamorganic Goddess
- Global Action Network Canada
- Go Cruelty-Free: FAQs
- — shopping guide
- Green Options
- Grist
- Group for the Education of Animal-Related Issues (GEARI)
- Hair Quackery
- Hippyshopper
- Human Rights Watch
- Humane Society International
- I Blame the Patriarchy
- INCI directory (c/o SpecialChem)
- INCI for dummies (c/o Hilda Blue)
- Jezebel
- Kindly Indulge Me: Indulging the senses while making kind choices
- Leaping Bunny
- Live Science
- MakeupAlley: Product Review Search
- — Go Green Board
- — Skin Care Board
- — Hair Care Board
- MakeupTalk forums
- Médecins Sans Frontières
- Melbourne Dermatology
- ModernMedicine
- Mountain Rose Blog (c/o MRH, next item)
- Mountain Rose Herbs: click any item in a category for links to further information; ex. oils
- Nice Girls Don’t Swear
- The Non-Blonde
- Oxfam
- Personal Care Truth or Scare: Information based on scientific facts
- PETA cruelty-free search: NB this is ONLY here for information purposes, as it may be useful for shopping & consumption purposes. NBB warning on list: flaws, errors, inaccuracies, outdated details. NBBB I am NOT a fan of PETA, especially recently.
- Phoebe’s Ingredients
- Point of Interest! (aka Swift Crafty Monkey)
- Post Punk Kitchen, and their forum (vegan)
- Product Placement
- PubMed: c/o National Center for Biotechnology Information resources–US National Library of Medicine–National Institutes of Health
- The Quackometer
- Quackwatch
- Ratbags: Quintessence of the Loon
- — The Green Light
- — The Green Light: useful blogs
- — The Millenium Project
- ReadyMade
- Red Cross, The (ICRC)
- Responsible Shopper: Guide to promoting a responsible economy
- — links
- Science-Based Medicine
- Science Blogs
- Scientopia
- Silk Naturals’ forum
- Simon Singh
- Singapore SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
- Skeptifem: skepticism–feminism–media criticism
- Skinacea
- Skin & Allergy News: News and views that matters to dermatology
- Skin Care Talk: forum
- SmartSkincare.com
- Social Accountability International: human rights at work
- Swift Crafty Monkey (aka Point of Interest!)
- Tightly Curly (ingredients)
- Transnationale: data on multinationals (esp. ethics, anti-exploitation)
- Transparency International: the global coalition against corruption
- Tree Hugger
- Uncyclopedia: the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
- Uncaged (UK)
- US: Cosmetic ingredient information (PCPC)
- US: Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Vegan Action resources
- Well Beauty Blog
- Wikipedia: Chemistry (introduction…)
- — Cosmetics (intro)
- — History of Cosmetics
- Wikipedia: Argument
- — Argumentation theory
- — Critical thinking
- — Epistemology
- — Evidence
- — Fallacy
- — List of fallacies
- — Falsifiability
- — Figure of speech
- — Informal logic
- — Knowledge: see also rationalism vs. empiricism
- — Logic
- — Logic portal
- — Persuasion
- — Proof
- — Pseudoscience
- — Rhetoric
- — Rhetorical operations
- — Rhetorical reason
- — Scientific method
- — Semantics
- — Semiotics
- — Thinking portal
- wiseGEEK
- Worldwatch Institute: for an environmentally sustainable and socially just world
- The Zero Waste Home
