Facial products

Zoom workshop on Sunday, August 23 at 11 am PDT – meeting link, password, and formula package

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Woo hoo! We have another Zoom workshop this Sunday. The topic? Facial products! Join me as we take a look at formulating facial products by reviewing ingredients we might like to include, like actives, cosmeceuticals, botanical extracts, oils and other emollients, silicones, acids, vitamins, and so much more. We’ll create a few base formulas and...

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Blast from the past: “An Apple a day” foaming facial cleanser and modifications

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I’m putting together a list of things I need to make over the next week or two as I start re-stocking our bathroom cupboard with everything we might need over the next six months. My first priority is to make a batch of facial cleanser as I think I have maybe three days’ worth left?...

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Working with Sesaflash: Creating a fancy facial serum!

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Welcome back to this short series about Sesaflash – Sesaflash (INCI: Glycerin (and) Acrylates copolymer & PVP/polycarbamyl polyglycol ester (and) Hydrolyzed Sesame Protein PG – propyl methylsilanediol. Yesterday, we took a look at a few base formulas we could create to incorporate this ingredient into a facial serum or moisturizer. I thought we could modify...

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Working with Sesaflash: Formulating a basic facial serum or moisturizer

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Yesterday we met this awesome cosmeceutical/active called Sesaflash – Sesaflash (INCI: Glycerin (and) Acrylates copolymer & PVP/polycarbamyl polyglycol ester (and) Hydrolyzed Sesame Protein PG – propyl methylsilanediol – so let’s take a look at how we might use it today. Let’s take at a few base formulas we could make with Sesaflash! The key is...

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Creating a hydrating honey, bamboo & hyaluronic acid facial serum with squalane (formula)!

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So what the heck happened between the batch of hydrating hyaluronic acid & squalane serum I made a few weeks ago that was perfectly clear – find the formula here – and the one we made in our Zoom meeting the other day? Why did it go all creamy like that? The short answer is that...

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