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Creating an Age-Defying Sheet Mask with peptides with Natalie Skiller – part two: Fan-freakin’-tastic peptide charts!

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A diagram of how to build a protein

Woo hoo! Another series of posts from the always amazing Natalie Skiller, known as the awesome formulator for Sweet Little Crumb (Facebook, Instagram, and her new Patreon, This Formulating Life!). In this one, she’s teaching you how to make an awesome Age-Defying Sheet Mask with peptides and other gorgeous actives! Love Natalie’s work? Check out...

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Creating an Age-Defying Sheet Mask with peptides with Natalie Skiller – part one: Inspirations and the chemistry of peptides! 

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Variety of sheet masks on pink spotted tray

Woo hoo! Another series of posts from the always amazing Natalie Skiller, known as the awesome formulator for Sweet Little Crumb (Facebook, Instagram, and her new Patreon, This Formulating Life!). In this one, she’s teaching you how to make an awesome Age-Defying Sheet Mask with peptides and other gorgeous actives! Love Natalie’s work? Check out...

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#alltheingredients: Cationic HA – positively charged hyaluronic acid blend

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Cationic HA cup with clear liquid and bottle in scale portrait mode

Let’s take a look at this interesting cationic blend of hyaluronic acid combined with a polyquaternium (conditioner) and glycerin (humectant) that we can use in hair and skin products to condition and offers all kinds of interesting properties. We met this ingredient and formulated with it in October’’s e- book, Creating light lotions, part two:...

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Q&A: Can we include oil soluble actives in an anhydrous facial serum? And a profile of D’Orientine

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In the monthly Q&A, Klymer asked, Hello Susan, hope all is well up North! When we buy actives do they always need to be use in an emulsion? I have some oil soluble actives (D’Orientine) that I want to include in oil serums alone. As long as I follow the recommended usage, is this ok...

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#alltheingredients: Fision® HydraTress – awesome hair active!

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Let’s take a closer look at this gorgeous new-to-me blend of vitamins, humectants, and proteins I’ve been using in my hydrating winter skin & scalp spray that we’ll be adapting to be other products shortly – Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract, 1,2 -Hexanediol, Sodium Hyaluronate) We’ve met...

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