Duplicating products: What have we learned so far?

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I’m planning to continue with duplicating your suggestions tomorrow, but I thought we should take a moment to review what we’ve learned about formulating through duplicating commercial products! Here’s my suggested list of steps when duplicating products… Step 1: Get the complete ingredient list. You may refer to the bottle or you might have to...

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Duplicating products: Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner

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In the duplicating products post, Gabrielle suggested the Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner as a product we should consider! Let’s take a look at it! (And if you have any ideas, go to that post and make those suggestions!) Purified Water (Aqua): Our solvent. Cetyl Alcohol: A fatty alcohol that thickens and boosts the substantivity...

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Duplicating products: Aveda’s Be Curly Shampoo

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Ellbie suggested we take a look at Aveda’s Be Curly Shampoo. (If you have a suggestion for a product we could duplicate, mention it in this post!) Here’s the list of ingredients: Aqueous (water/aqua/eau) Extract/Extrait Aqueux, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf, Sodium Coco/Babassu Sulfate, Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, Babassuamidopropyl Betaine, Glycol Distearate, Galactoarabinan, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed...

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Duplicating products: Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate

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Angelica suggested in this post (which is where you can post your ideas for duplicatable products) that we take a look at Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate. So let’s take a look at the ingredient list… Caprylic/Capric Triglycerides: Fractionated coconut oil. It’s a dry feeling very light emollient with a 2 year life span. It feels like our esters....

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Question: How do anti-oxidants affect the shelf life of our products?

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p, as always, stimulates my brain with this comment (found in this post): How does adding 1% vitamin e or rosemary oleoresin affect the shelf life of that ingredient (which is usually an oil)? And how does refrigeration affect the shelf life of our oils? For example, if I buy rosehip seed oil (a 6 month shelf...

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