Botanical

#alltheingredients: Black currant extract (INCI: Ribes Nigrum Fruit Extract and Propanediol)

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I’ve gone a bit black currant crazy this past year, enjoying black currant seed oil as well as black currant fragrance oils – like black currant sorbet in this whipped cranberry & black currant oil butter – so you know I had to try using this water soluble, liquid black currant extract (INCI: Ribes Nigrum...

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#alltheingredients: Yucca extract – botanical extract, liquid

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I’ve been having some fun playing with this new-to-me, water soluble, liquid extract – Yucca extract (INCI: Yucca Smalliana leaf extract and propanediol) – so let’s take a look at it before we use it in a liquid clarifying shampoo for oily hair shortly. This type of yucca is known as Beargrass yucca, and the...

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#alltheingredients: Cornsilk extract (liquid, botanical extract)

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Corn silk liquid botanical extract (INCI: Zea Mays silk extract and propanediol) is a water soluble extract derived from the silk from corn that works as an astringent, anti-inflammatory, soothing, and conditioning agent that offers a soft and silky feel to products with a water phase, like emulsions, hair conditioners, toners, cleansers, and more. It...

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#alltheingredients: Turmeric root extract (liquid, water soluble botanical)

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Turmeric root extract (INCI: Curcuma longa root extract and propanediol) is an orange, liquid, water soluble botanical extract that works as an anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory thanks to the curcumin found within. It may “calm skin” and reduce redness and inflammation, which is always a bonus in a skin care product. As you can see, it’s bright...

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Creating a vitamin & botanical extract packed anhydrous facial serum with squalane and tropical fruit blend OS (formula)

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On October 22nd, we met this gorgeous, decadent tropical fruit blend OS, an oil soluble blend of five tropical fruits, including coconut, kakadu plum, passionfruit, blueberry, and banana used at 1% to 10% in anhydrous products – those without water, like whipped shea butter or lip balms – or in the oil phase of an...

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