Subscriber exclusive: Potential duplication of Clinique’s Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief (part four)

In part one and part two of this duplicating series, we took a look at each ingredient. In part three, we looked at what type of product this might be. Today, we’ll put together a prototype recipe.As I said yesterday, I’m using 1% Aristoflex AVC to create a cold emulsion for this product. We have...

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Subscriber exclusive: Potential duplication of Clinique’s Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief (part three)

Yesterday, we took a look at the ingredient list for this product – part one and part two – and what each ingredient might do in the product. (Please visit those posts to see links for these ingredients.) Before we can create a prototype recipe, we need to answer a few questions.What kind of product...

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Subscriber exclusive: Potential duplication of Clinique’s Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief (part two)

We took a look at the first part of the ingredient list yesterday. Let’s look at the rest of it today…Thermus thermophillus ferment: Sederma* has this ingredient, but I can’t get any information about it as it’s behind the UL Prospector wall of doom. It’s listed as a skin conditioning agent by Health Canada*. Unfortunately,...

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Subscriber exclusive: Potential duplication of Clinique’s Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief (part one)

In the June duplicating thread, Charlette asked if we could duplicate Clinique’s Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief. Let’s take a look at that product now.The first thing I do is obtain a complete ingredient list. Unfortunately, this is getting harder and harder as companies aren’t posting these on the web site, so we have to...

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Duplicating FCTRY’s Unicorn Snot (part three, sodium carbomer)

On Monday, we reviewed the ingredient list for a potential duplication of this product,  and yesterday we created a prototype recipe using Sepimax ZEN . Today, let’s take a look at how to make this product using pre-neutralized sodium carbomer.Sodium carbomer is a pre-neutralized ingredient that allows you to make gels without having to add...

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