formulating

A lot of the commercial moisturizers you see are pretty silicone heavy, and we know silicones are a great way to offer barrier protection (dimethicone) and behave as surface smoothing agents for aging skin. I can guarantee if my mom likes a moisturizer, it’s likely to be quite silicone heavy. They offer quite a lovely...

Oily skinned girls can use moisturizers, too, but they’ll need some serious modifications because oils are not our friends! I’ve written about creating oil-free moisturizers in the past, but let’s take another look at this recipe! The key to making an oil free moisturizer is – wait for it – not to use oils (you...

If you have dry, wrinkled skin, we can modify yesterday’s recipe for dry skin by including a few more of those things wrinkled skin likes. Wrinkled skin likes emollients, surface smoothing agents, anti-oxidants, and AHAs, so let’s get that into our lovely facial moisturizer. Water phase: We can keep the water phase pretty much the...

As we know, dry skin needs a lot of oils, film formers, and humectants, so we’ll modify our basic facial moisturizer recipe to include those ingredients. This recipe will be suitable for normal-to-dry skin as well, as long as your skin can tolerate oils. Water phase: You can include some lovely liquids in the water...

Before the lengthy series of posts on surfactants, we were taking a look at different skin types. So let’s take a look at formulating facial moisturizers! I’ll be using this basic facial moisturizer recipe as our starting point. BASIC FACIAL MOISTURIZER RECIPEWATER PHASE 77.5% water2-5% humectant of choice0.5% allatoinOIL PHASE8% oils4% emulsifier2% thickenerCOOL DOWN PHASE0.5%...