facial product

Formulating for dry skin: Creating a body wash from scratch

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For the purposes of this series on creating skin cleansers, I’m going to be using the same three surfactants – SCI or ACI, cocamidopropyl betaine, and polyglucose/lactylate blend in each product. You can choose any combination you want and just substitute one surfactant for the SCI and another surfactant for the polyglucose/lactylate blend. I really encourage...

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Choosing a moisturizer recipe!

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Click here for the original post from March 4, 2011… The first step in making a moisturizer is to learn your skin type. Some of us can’t stand any oils on our skin and some of us can slather on shea butter and still feel like we need a little more moisturizing. I recommend your...

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Tea tree oil: Moisturizers

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In all honesty, if your acne is bothersome enough to have you considering adding tea tree oil to a moisturizer, then your face probably doesn’t like oils. I’d really ask you to consider making a gelled toner, like this one, and adding tea tree oil with the solubilizer (like the Caprol Micro Express I used...

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Tea tree oil: A facial wash and a toner!

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As we saw from the studies on tea tree oil, using it in our facial products could help with acne. I’m going to include it in a facial cleanser with one small disclaimer – this is not an unscented product! It has a light medicinal smell, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, so you might...

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Experiments in the workshop: Facial cleanser with a ton of extracts – modified

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I know I’m always going on about only switching one ingredient when you make a product, but when I’m in the workshop, I get a little ingredient happy and tend to change a whole lot of things at once! This is kinda what happened here with this somewhat unappealing looking facial cleanser. But seriously, try...

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