Duplicating products: Soothing Touch Herbal Therapy Moisturizing Massage Cream

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Tara asked about this product – Soothing Touch Herbal Therapy Moisturizing Massage Cream (click here to see the ingredient list she posted from the bottle). The problem I’m having is that the official site doesn’t have ingredient lists and it seems like the lists are different everywhere I look! ARGH! (This is a huge problem when...

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Using extracts, hydrosols, and other botanical ingredients

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You’ll see a lot of extracts, infusions, hydrosols, and botanical extracts in commercial products, and a question I’m asked all the time is “how do they do that?” (especially when it comes to Lush’s claims of using “fresh” this or the other. Read parts one and part two of a post on Lush’s claims). The...

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An aside: Shelf lives of our products (part 1)

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I’ll be getting back to duplicating products in a few days, but I thought this was a really important topic for learning how to formulate and duplicate! Will commented in this post…I use liquid germall plus in my own concoctions and haven’t noticed anything go bad, but I typically use a batch of lotion within...

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Duplicating products: Trilogy gentle face exfoliant

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In this post, Jen W suggested we take a look at the Trilogy gentle face exfoliant (if you want to suggest a product for duplicating, then hie thyself there and make a comment!). Remember the six steps of duplicating: Step 1: Get the complete ingredient list.Step 2: Look at what each ingredient brings to the...

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