Month: February 2010

Cucumber extract: Super happy fun formulating time!

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Because cucumber extract offers astringency and anti-inflammatory properties, it’s a natural inclusion in toners and after shave sprays and lotions. When using our cucumber extract, I’d suggest starting with 0.5% dissolved in warm water and added to the cool down phase to ensure you won’t be too sensitive to it. You can go as high...

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Cucumber extract

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Cucumber extract (INCI: Cucumis sativa extract) can be found as a powdered extract or a liquid extract, but both are water soluble. You can use the powder at 0.5% to 1% or the liquid at your supplier’s suggested usage (probably 1 to 50%). I’ll focus on the powdered extract for this post…Cucumber is considered emollient,...

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Combining anti-oxidants

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Is there any value in combining anti-oxidants in our creations? If we have a good anti-oxidant like Vitamin E, is there any point in including rosemary oleoresin (ROE) or other anti-oxidants?Yes. Rancidity happens in different ways (for the full post, click here). Anti-oxidants fight that rancidity in different ways – one might kill microbes that...

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Rosemary extract: Other products

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In this last post on rosemary extract, we’ll take a look at including this lovely extract in various toners, face cleansers, and body sprays. I don’t suggest using rosemary essential oil for stuff you might put on your face – it’s a lovely scent at first, but do we want to smell it all day?...

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Thank you!

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Don’t you just love this polymer clay hamburger from our summer class? Melissa is an amazingly talented DIY girl (and a chemistry enthusiast as well!) Thank you to the wonderful people who have donated funds to my youth groups. So far we have raised enough to pay for five craft groups! I can’t thank you...

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