Although the MI Free Facebook page has remained active during 2025, regular readers will have to forgive absence of activity on the MI Free blog.
This has been partly due to taking an extended break from work, and more lately due to ongoing work on various book projects, news of which I’m happy to bring you here!
1/ My new book, Living with Propylene Glycol Allergy, is now out and available on Kindle and Amazon, with others to follow in the coming weeks and months. PG is a hugely versatile ingredient, commonly used as an emollient or humectant, found in all the kinds of products where you might find MI — such as cosmetics and skincare, household detergents, paints — but also found in a lot of our processed foods and drinks, and in e-liquids too. Sensitivities to it can be irritant or allergic and avoiding it is no mean feat, especially when patients have to avoid other glycols too. If this is an allergen which affects you, I hope you will try the book and find useful information and support from it.
2/ A very long overdue update of Living with Methylisothiazolinone Allergy is, I’m happy to report, now in progress, and I hope to be able to release it very early in the new year. Work is very much ongoing, and I’d be delighted to hear from readers of the book with regards to what they’d like to see in the new edition that the first edition omitted. You can get me through the usual channels (info at [domain name]), or leave a comment here.
3/ The next allergy book in line is I think going to be one dedicated (either exclusively or primarily) to Balsam of Peru allergy. I hope to get it out by early 2026, but this is very much dependent on what I uncover during the course of my reading and research. It looks like a curious subject, and I look forward to getting my teeth stuck in. Again, if any of you react to BoP and would like to comment on the kind of content and information you’d like to see, I’m all ears.
I also plan to spend some time updating the MI Free site in the coming months and, once again, if there are subjects you’d like me to address, please do leave a comment, and I’ll add them to the to-do list!