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Now that we’ve seen what ingredients we could use to create a lotion for dry skin, let’s take a look at creating a basic lotion with those ingredients. I’ll use my basic lotion recipe as the base for this product, but I’m adapting it to include humectants every single time for dry skin. (I generally...
Yesterday we took a look at which occlusives, humectants, and emollients might work for dry skin (click here). Today we’ll take a look some extracts, cosmeceuticals, and other ingredients we could include in dry skin products. (Please note that these aren’t complete lists – just suggestions! And I really suggest that you click on the...
Dry skin has the following characteristics – it probably has an impaired skin barrier and it probably has lower hydration levels – and we should be able to figure out which ingredients could benefit this skin type so you can make awesome products! We want to formulate our products with occlusives, humectants, and emollients. Wow, that...
In an ideal world, we’d all live in climates with 40% to 60% humidity and a lot of cases of dry skin would go away. (And in that same ideal world, chocolate would be calorie free and people would treat intellectual pursuits the way they do sports, but I digress…) But we don’t, so we...
As the goal of this blog is to set you on fire rather than handing you matches, I thought we’d take some time to look at the ingredients that might benefit dry to really dry skin. What do we know about dry to really dry skin? We know that really dry skin probably has an...