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Now that we’ve seen what ingredients we could use to create a lotion for dry skin, let’s take a look at creating a basic lotion with those ingredients. I’ll use my basic lotion recipe as the base for this product, but I’m adapting it to include humectants every single time for dry skin. (I generally...
Happy Easter Sunday! I thought I’d spend the day working on various things on the blog, so I thought I’d point out a few new things I’ve done…Take a look to your right (or the picture on your left). You might notice there are three new sections – humectants, products for men, and surfactant based products...
Yesterday we took a look at which occlusives, humectants, and emollients might work for dry skin (click here). Today we’ll take a look some extracts, cosmeceuticals, and other ingredients we could include in dry skin products. (Please note that these aren’t complete lists – just suggestions! And I really suggest that you click on the...
Dry skin has the following characteristics – it probably has an impaired skin barrier and it probably has lower hydration levels – and we should be able to figure out which ingredients could benefit this skin type so you can make awesome products! We want to formulate our products with occlusives, humectants, and emollients. Wow, that...
Humectants aren’t just about drawing water from the atmosphere to our skin: Many of them have other effects that can benefit our skin. (Humectants are for hydrating; lipids are for moisturizing. See this post for more information!) For more about panthenol, click here. For more about glycerin, click here. USING HUMECTANTS TO REDUCE TRANSEPIDERMAL WATER...