extract

I’m sure by now you’re eager to include extracts in your products – if you haven’t already – and combining them can be a great way to get some awesome properties in your lotions and potions. But there is a warning about combining extracts, and that warning is “beware” (my apologies to Fry & Laurie...

Chrysanthemum extract can offer good burn and wound healing, so it can be used as a great ingredient in water based salves or ointments. We do not want to use comfrey root in this recipe – it can sting open wounds and cuts, so that’s generally a bad a idea! Let’s take a look at...

Orchids are not only beautiful, but apparently they can reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles, behave as an anti-oxidant and humectant, moisturize, soothe, and condition our skin. The new big thing seems to be orchid extract, but the only information I can find in all my research is that it is considered awesome...

Papaya is an interesting extract. The main feature is papain (It makes you strong like Popeye. Get it, papain, Popeye, papain, Popeye. Oh, forget it!)*, which is a serious keratolytic (exfoliating) protease enzyme. It also contains a ton of other things to appeal to formulators! As it seems with every extract, papaya is a good...

Strawberries are outstanding! We have local strawberries every year, and I can’t help but buy a basket at the farm drive-throughs to be eaten the moment I get home! And I love strawberry extract (INCI: Fragaria vesca (strawberry) fruit extract), which we can find in a powdered and liquid form (the liquid generally contains water...