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I love love love hydrolyzed proteins of all sorts! They are water soluble proteins that offer film forming, hydrating, and moisturizing. They can make your products feel silkier and glidier, and can make your skin feel nicer and more moisturized. Some are small enough to penetrate your skin, moisturizing from within, and others form a...
Games of Thrones and tiny blonde puppies; symphonic, heavy, and power metal; lotions that stay emulsified and clean, these are a few of my favourite things! Someone asked me to share my favourite ingredients and why, so join me over the next few days for a few things I can’t live without and some recipes...
Last Friday we created the pomegranate and witch hazel moisturizer for men’s skin. and yesterday we made a green tea & bamboo facial moisturizer. Let’s modify the first moisturizer further from being a six ingredient moisturizer to one with some fancier ingredients. It’s incredibly easy to go nuts adding things to a moisturizer, so I’ll...
We created a facial moisturizer for men on Friday with pomegranate oil and witch hazel. Could we make a different version of this? Of course – there are literally thousands of different moisturizers we could make! When it comes to a man’s facial products, we want to formulate something moisturizing and hydrating that will help...
I realize these posts are a real blast from the past – they’re some of the first ones I wrote in 2009 – but I think it’s worth a re-visit to learn more about how fragrance and essential oils will impact your surfactant blends, including shampoos, bubble baths, and body washes. Fragrances and viscosityFragrances and...