facial product

Why did I buy that again? Cera bellina – making an anhydrous eye gel

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I thought I’d make a nice eye gel with the cera bellina and add some lovely oil soluble ingredients and extracts. ANHYDROUS EYE SERUM WITH CERA BELLINA10% borage oil20% macadamia nut oil14% fractionated coconut oil10% calendula oil12% kukui oil4% sea buckthorn oil5% green tea extract (oil soluble)5% phyto oil10% cera bellina10% mallow extract (oil soluble)...

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Emulsifiers: Creating a moisturizer with Ritamulse SCG (part one)

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As I mentioned the other day, we can take adapt recipes using one emulsifier to use another, so let’s do that with a facial moisturizer. I think Ritamulse SCG will make a nice facial product because it’s a bit more powdery than Polawax or emulsifying wax, so let’s see what we can make here! I’m...

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Emulsifiers: Sucragel AOF – facial moisturizer recipes

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Sucragel AOF is a great emulsifier for moisturizers because you can load it with oils and butters and still keep that thin consistency. Let’s take a look at a basic recipe for a facial moisturizer. BASIC FACIAL MOISTURIZER MADE WITH SUCRAGEL AOFOIL PHASE5% Sucragel AOF24.5% oils0.5% Vitamin E WATER PHASE65.5% distilled water, hydrosols, or aloe...

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Formulating for dry skin: Toners continued…

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As we saw in this post and this post, the pH of our skin care products is absolutely vital, and more so for facial products. When we’re creating a cleanser, toner, or any other non-lotiony product, we have to make sure we are testing our pH and ensuring that it will be in the right...

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Formulating for dry skin: Toners

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A toner is a product intended to remove any cleanser and oils from your face prior to application of a moisturizer. For those of us with oily skin, it can do double duty as a moisturizer. For those of you with dry skin, it might not even be a step in your facial cleansing process,...

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