Facial products

Q&A: How can I use medium chain triglycerides (MCT) in face creams or facial products?

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In the monthly Q&A, Medha asked, Mid chain triglycerides how to use it in the face creams or face products? On October 31, 2023, we took a look at this question – Emollients you will love: What’s the difference between MCT, FCO, and CCT? – in which we determined that medium chain triglycerides are the...

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Let’s revisit this formula – Hydrating gelled honey & bamboo facial serum with hyaluronic acid and squalane – from May 2020 and see how it’s held up over time! 

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I’ve been going through my sample section of my bathroom, workshop, and office, looking at so many products I’ve made dating all the way back to 2017! When I make a product, I make sure I have samples I can put in different containers of differing opacities with different caps and I put them all...

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Creating a cranberry, cornsilk & carrot foaming hand & facial cleanser! (Long post, four parts in one)

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I love a good multiuse product, so I set out to create a product that would clean both my hands and face, dispensed from a foamer bottle. Luckily, the concepts are very similar – we want something that foams enough to feel cleansing but rinses off cleanly so we don’t have that dry or tacky...

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Blast from the past! Super simple festive formulas: Lip scrubs!

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Welcome to Blast from the Past!, a series in which I’m sharing some of my favourite gifting formulas! Lip scrubs are so wonderfully decadent, but so unbelievably easy to make with as few as two ingredients, both of which you can buy at the grocery store. You can dress them up in cute, inexpensive packaging from...

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Creating a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer (part eleven) – Using Incroquat BTMS-50 as the emulsifier, the formula

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Welcome back to another bonus part of this series on making a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer that I’ve designed to apply before biking to protect my skin from the elements and to work well under my sunscreen. This is part eleven in which we’ll be making the formula using Incroquat BTMS-50....

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