Duplicating products: Lush’s 9 to 5 cleanser

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In this post (where you can suggest a product for duplication), soapilyever after suggests:  LUSH, a no rinse facial cleanser called 9 to 5. here are the ingredients: Water (Aqua), Almond Oil (Prunus dulcis), Stearic Acid, Fresh Dove Orchid Extract (Dendrobium), Everlasting Flower Absolute (Helichrysum stoechas), Ylang Ylang Absolute (Cananga Odorata), Triethanolamine, Cetearyl Alcohol, Perfume, Methylparaben, Propylparaben....

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&*@@# Croda!

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I’m so annoyed right now with Croda, makers of Incroquat BTMS-50, Incroquat CR, Polawax, and so on. They’ve decided that the little people – anyone who doesn’t have an e-mail address at a cosmetic company – can’t access their intranet for information, which means we can’t access data sheets or studies on their ingredients. A...

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Duplicating products: Boots Organic Rich Body Butter

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Merilyn e-mailed me to ask…I wonder if you can help me with this body butter. I whip butter after butter and I just can’t seem to get the same just whipped spreadable consistency…The specific item is called ‘ORGANIC Body Rich Body Butter’, it’s 81% certified Organic. It says it “Deeply nourishes hydrates and protects with Shea...

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Duplicating products: Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner (part 2)

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In yesterday’s post, we took some time to look at the ingredient list for Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner, but we didn’t create the recipe. So let’s take a look at a possible recipe for this product! I can’t find brassicamidopropyl betaine anywhere, so I’ll have to replace it with Incroquat BTMS-50 as the main conditioner....

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Getting to know INCI names

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If you want to formulate your own products – whether they’re duplicates or something you’ve cooked up in your head – you need to know INCI names so you can figure out what ingredient is what. The common name for an ingredient – evening primrose oil – is not the same as the INCI name...

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