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Formulating for dry skin: What ingredients could we include in our products? (Part 1)

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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...

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Humectants: Other benefits

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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...

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Super jet dinosaur fun monkeys!

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This is a test of the mobile Blogger app I downloaded for my iPhone. I’m just curious how it looks. You may comment or disregard! (I had to edit it on my laptop because you couldn’t see the monkeys or the jets due to the hugeness of the picture! Which means there’s no fun, either!...

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Humectants: More about glycerin!

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While researching the post on the possibility that glycerin might draw water from your skin in low humidity environments, I learned more than I could have possibly imagined about this plentiful and inexpensive humectant. I’d like to share a few of those findings with you. I know many of us avoid glycerin due it its...

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Why I hate April Fool’s Day

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People are always surprised when I say my husband and I aren’t fans of April Fool’s Day. I think it’s because we are very happy, funny people who enjoy weird things like going to the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, so I think it’s kind of a shock that we aren’t into practical jokes as...

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