Formulating facial moisturizers for dry skin

As we know, dry skin needs a lot of oils, film formers, and humectants, so we’ll modify our basic facial moisturizer recipe to include those ingredients. This recipe will be suitable for normal-to-dry skin as well, as long as your skin can tolerate oils. Water phase: You can include some lovely liquids in the water...

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Formulating facial moisturizers – an overview

Before the lengthy series of posts on surfactants, we were taking a look at different skin types. So let’s take a look at formulating facial moisturizers! I’ll be using this basic facial moisturizer recipe as our starting point. BASIC FACIAL MOISTURIZER RECIPEWATER PHASE 77.5% water2-5% humectant of choice0.5% allatoinOIL PHASE8% oils4% emulsifier2% thickenerCOOL DOWN PHASE0.5%...

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Replicating Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser for all skin types

This is such an interesting product – you’ll see what I mean when you look at the list of ingredients… Ingredients: Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Stearyl Alcohol, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Butylparaben. We have very low levels of surfactants, and one that is considered the most irritating of what we have available to us....

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Formulating a creamy foamer facial cleanser

I love foamer bottles and I love lime green, so you know this bottle is a winning combination! And I love SCI – but can you use it in a foamer bottle? Yes! (I know! I was shocked, too!) I set out to create a foaming face wash filled with all kinds of interesting and...

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Mother’s day is almost here!

If you’re in North America, you know Mother’s Day is this Sunday! I love holidays like this. Much like birthdays, it’s a chance to celebrate someone you love by offering up presents and good food and spend a little time together. So what are you making for your mom or maternal figure this week? My...

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