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Creating a super-cooling hydrating glacial facial gel with Fision® Hydrate and Ceramide Complex (part one, the ingredients)

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I absolutely love using gels to create interesting new facial products that don’t contain a ton of oils that I can use on its own at the end of a very long mask-wearing day on its own or as part of a facial, eye, or “monkey line” sheet mask to soothe my very angry, rosacea-prone...

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#alltheingredients: Plant Keratin (aka VegeKeratin) – hydrolyzed protein, hair active

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Plant Keratin, sometimes called VegeKeratin, (INCI:  Wheat Amino Acids, Soy Amino Acids, Arginine HCI, Serine, Threonine) is a plant-based combination amino acids for hair and skin products to increase hydration and condition. What does this do? It claims it can increase hair strength, increase hair elasticity, reduce breakage, reduce wet and dry combing forces, reduce...

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#alltheingredients: NatraSmooth™ (facial & hair active, hydrating)

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I found this ingredient at Lotioncrafter, NatraSmooth™ (INCI: Water, Tremella Fuciformis Sporocarp (Snow Mushroom) Extract, Betaine, Glycerin), a nicely gelled liquid derived from snow mushroom (also called silver ear mushroom) as an anti-oxidant that works as an amazing humectant and skin and hair conditioner. It binds water to the skin and hair to work as...

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#alltheingredients: Fision® Hydrate (INCI: Water, sodium PCA, wheat amino acids, panthenol, glycerin, sodium hyaluronate, Hydroxyproline) – skin care active

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Let’s meet one of my new and favourite humectants – ingredients that hydrate the skin by attracting water – Fision® Hydrate (INCI: Water, sodium PCA, wheat amino acids, panthenol, glycerin, sodium hyaluronate, hydroxyproline). What does this lovely, water soluble band of merry humectants claim it can do? It can restore hydration and draw water to the...

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#alltheingredients: Sepilift® DPHP (INCI: Dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline) – facial and lip care active

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As I wanted to work on making some moisturizers in our Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion making series/course and Formulating Friday more advanced lotion making series/course, I thought we could take a look at some actives or cosmeceuticals we can use in facial products for all kinds of different reasons. Today, let’s take a look at...

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