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Cucumber extract: Super happy fun formulating time!

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Because cucumber extract offers astringency and anti-inflammatory properties, it’s a natural inclusion in toners and after shave sprays and lotions. When using our cucumber extract, I’d suggest starting with 0.5% dissolved in warm water and added to the cool down phase to ensure you won’t be too sensitive to it. You can go as high...

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Cucumber extract

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Cucumber extract (INCI: Cucumis sativa extract) can be found as a powdered extract or a liquid extract, but both are water soluble. You can use the powder at 0.5% to 1% or the liquid at your supplier’s suggested usage (probably 1 to 50%). I’ll focus on the powdered extract for this post…Cucumber is considered emollient,...

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Rosemary extract: Other products

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In this last post on rosemary extract, we’ll take a look at including this lovely extract in various toners, face cleansers, and body sprays. I don’t suggest using rosemary essential oil for stuff you might put on your face – it’s a lovely scent at first, but do we want to smell it all day?...

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Rosemary extract: Lotions

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Rosemary extract is a great addition to any lotion, added at 0.5% to 1% during the cool down phase. Remember, we add it to the cool down phase because some of the polyphenols are heat sensitive, and we don’t want to have it use all its awesome anti-oxidizing power fighting off the heat before you’ve...

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Rosemary extract: Anhydrous products

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Rosemary extract offers anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, which makes it perfect for anhydrous balms, unguents, and ointments. Because we will be looking at anhydrous products, we can’t use rosemary hydrosol without some kind of emulsifier, and the powdered extract will be a little harder to include. For the most part, if you want to use...

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