Q&A: Can we use more than one active in a facial moisturizer?

A collage of four photos. The upper left is of a beaker with a creamy moisturizer in it with a green spoon. The upper right is of a bottle with brown liquid and a cup with brown liquid on a metal scale. The liquid is Fision® Wrinkle Fix. The lower left photo is of Fision® Glow Plex, a bottle and a cup with light brown clear liquid sit on a metal plate on a digital scale. The lower right photo is of Fision® Instant Lift, a clear brown liquid in a plastic shot glass sitting on a brown shelf in front of beakers.

In the monthly Q&A, Katherine asked, For the Facial Moisturizer you made during the Zoom workshop February 8th, do you ever add more than one active? For example, instead of 3% Fision Wrinkle Fix, could you add 1.5% Fision® Wrinkle Fix and 1.5% of the Fision Instant Lift or 1.5% Fision GlowPlex? Or is it...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: Sepigel™ 305 and Sepiplus 400 – adding more humectants, part four

A plastic container sits on a counter with a very white, thicker looking emulsion inside. This is a lotion made with Sepigel 305.

Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: Sepigel™ 305 and Sepiplus 400 – adding more humectants, part four Welcome to part four of this series/course which we’re creating formulas using Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400! These awesome, liquid, cold process, non-ionic emulsifiers can make emulsions, gels, and gel-creams in less than 10 minutes using low/no shear...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: Sepigel™ 305 and Sepiplus 400 – cream becomes body butter with solid oils and butters (part three)

Welcome to part three of this series/course which we’re creating formulas using Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400! These awesome, liquid, cold process, non-ionic emulsifiers can make emulsions, gels, and gel-creams in less than 10 minutes using low/no shear mixing! Woo hoo! We met Sepigel 305™ (INCI: Polyacrylamide (and) C13-14 Isoparaffin (and) Laureth-7) – cold process...

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Let’s talk about costs of making products! Part four – altering the oils in an emulsified body butter (with formulas) after looking at sensory characteristics and other properties! Now with US and Australian costs!

It's a photo of us making a body butter in a white bowl. The lotion is thick and creamy and white. We're using a hand mixer with one beater to mix it.

Welcome back to this short series in which we’re looking at making changes to our ingredients to create less expensive products, like anhydrous products and emulsions. In this post, we’ll look at making some more substitutions to the formula. And we’ll look at international costs from USA and Australia, which I’ve added to my spreadsheet....

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Let’s talk about costs of making products! Part three – altering the oils in emulsified body butters (with formulas)! 

Welcome back to this short series in which we’re looking at making changes to our ingredients to create less expensive products, like anhydrous products and emulsions. In this post, we’ll look at substituting liquid oils for less expensive ones. We’ll consider the properties the oils bring to the body butter – like awesome fatty acids...

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