One ingredient, five products: Gels – making a spot treatment

Spot treatments can be an effective way to deliver active ingredients to your skin. You don’t want to put a lot of ingredients into it – just the ones you really want to use to help a specific skin problem. I’m thinking of making a skin lightening spot treatment for my mom as she has...

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One ingredient, five products: Gels – making an after shave gel

After shave products are all about the astringency and soothing of newly shaved skin, so let’s take a look making a gel type product! I’m basing my product on this post from the cucumber extract series from a few weeks ago. Click here to find why I used each ingredient, and click here to see...

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One ingredient, five products: Gels – making a gelled toner (part three)

We took a look at making a gelled toner with pre-neutralized gel yesterday, but we found it a little thin. (That’s not a bad thing; I just want something a bit thicker!) Let’s take a look at how we could make a gelled toner from scratch! To make a gelled toner from scratch – or...

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pH and conditioners

I’ve had quite a few of you write to ask why I don’t adjust the pH of my conditioner recipes, and the answer is simple – we don’t need to adjust the pH because it’s in the range we want. Conditioners should be acidic with a pH below 6. All the ingredients we add to...

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One ingredient, five products: Gels – making a gelled toner (part two)

On Friday we took a look at a new product, a gelled toner, and figured we could make one at home using carbomers. The big difference between making a regular, liquid toner and a gelled toner will be eliminating stickier ingredients because we won’t be removing it from our skin. What kinds of things would...

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