These are a few of my favourite things: Niacinamide (updated for 2023)

I am finding I’m using niacinamide more and more in my products lately. It’s not just for facial products for me; I’m finding use for it in body butters as well! The claims for niacinamide are pretty substantial and they are backed up by studies and good science. (See the end of this post for...

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A look back at 2017: My new favourite ingredients (part one)

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve more than 400 new ingredients – not including micas, colourants, glitters, fragrance oils, or essential iols – including so many new surfactants, surfactant thickeners, cold lotion emulsifiers, conditioners, cationic polymers, preservatives, humectants, silicones, esters, oils, butters, extracts & hydrosols, proteins, cosmeceuticals & complexes, emulsifiers, and more, some of...

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These are a few of my favourite things: Dimethicone in hair care products

Dimethicone is a great addition in any hair care product as it offers conditioning, film forming, and de-frizzing. It increases hair’s softness and shine. You can use it in shampoo, conditioner, leave-in conditioner, cream rinse, or anti-frizz sprays. The easiest recipe I make is this one for an anti-frizz spray. ANTI-FRIZZ SPRAY90% cyclomethicone10% dimethicone Weigh...

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These are a few of my favourite things: Dimethicone

I’m a huge fan of silicones in just about any application in which you can put an oil. Dimethicone is my favourite by far. It adds slip and glide to a lotion, offers oil free moisturizing in a moisturizer, helps to defrizz my hair in a conditioner, offers conditioning in a shampoo, and more! What...

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These are a few of my favourite things: Water soluble shea butter

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I like water soluble olive oil! It gives me a chance to add some moisturizing to products that normally wouldn’t contain oils, like body washes or toners. Today’s favourite ingredient is similar to yesterday’s – water soluble shea butter (INCI: PEG-50 shea butter). Like the water soluble olive oil...

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