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The facial products e-book is done!

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The facial products e-book is done! Woo! It’s 399 pages long – over 160,000 words! – and has more recipes than I can count for moisturizers, toners, cleansers of all types, scrubs, eye gels, facial sera, and more, as well as entries for extracts, preservatives, surfactants, cosmeceuticals, emulsifiers, thickeners, anti-oxidants, and essential oils, with a...

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One ingredient, five products: Gels – making a gel toner (part one)

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I’ve heard from a few people that gel toners are all the rage right now, so I thought we should try to formulate one. As an aside, I have turned a toner into a gelled toner in the past using Amaze XT, but I’m hearing that it’s hard to find this ingredient, so it’s time...

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One ingredient, five products: Gels – making eye gels

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I love making eye gels because they offer such great qualities for what I think is pretty low effort. It’s such a simple process: Weigh the gel, add the extracts, mix, package, and rejoice! How much easier could that be? The first part of the process is to make the gel. (Visit this post to...

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One ingredient, five products: Cucumber extract in an eye gel

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I really love this eye gel recipe, and I thought it could only be made better by including some liquid cucumber extract. You can use powdered cucumber extract at 0.5% in this product, but you will end up with a darker coloured gel. No big deal, just thought you might want to know. I made...

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One ingredient, ten products: Incroquat BTMS-50 in silicone based facial moisturizers

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If you like silicones, Incroquat BTMS-50 should be your emulsifier of choice for lotions and moisturizers because it’s designed to handle high levels of cyclomethicone and dimethicone. (Check out the data bulletin on this ingredient for more information…) Why would we want to use silicones in a facial moisturizer? Dimethicone is moisturizing and skin conditioning,...

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