Facial products

Creating a super-cooling hydrating glacial facial gel with Fision® Hydrate and Ceramide Complex (part one, the ingredients)

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I absolutely love using gels to create interesting new facial products that don’t contain a ton of oils that I can use on its own at the end of a very long mask-wearing day on its own or as part of a facial, eye, or “monkey line” sheet mask to soothe my very angry, rosacea-prone...

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Formulating Friday: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – facial moisturizers (week six)

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A white bottle with a label "SwiftCraftyMonkey" sits on a plate with a light blue line in the centre. A dab of yellow moisturizer shows off the colour of the final product.

Welcome back to the Formulating Friday lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). It’s the last week of this part of the series, and we’ll be making a low viscosity facial moisturizer with this emulsifier, along with the other ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list. (Click here...

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Newbie Tuesday: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – facial moisturizers (week six)

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Welcome back to the Newbie Tuesday introduction to lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). It’s the last week of this part of the series, and we’ll be making a low viscosity facial moisturizer with this emulsifier, along with the other ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list....

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#alltheingredients: Hyaluronic acid, Oleo-Ha (oil soluble humectant, active for skin and lips)

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Jen from Lotioncrafter very kindly sent me a sample of this oil soluble hyaluronic acid (INCI: Sodium hyaluronate, hydrogenated castor oil, castor seed oil), which I tried in my new modification of what I’m calling Grey’s Heady Harvest anhydrous balm with Oleo-HA because it’s full of so many gorgeous oils and vitamins,  so let’s take...

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Creating foamy, bubbly, lathery™ facial cleansing grains: Two more formulas! (part five)

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In part one, we took a look at the formula for a foamy, bubbly, lathery™ cleansing grains with botanicals and powdered surfactants and vitamins and so much more. In part two, we looked at the solid surfactants we might choose for this product. In part three, we considered a few humectants and botanical extracts. In...

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