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Welcome to part four of this potential duplication of Tracie Martyn Firming Serum. To catch up, check out part one, part two, and part three. When creating a potential formula, I always have to consider how much of each ingredient to use. But first, I need to figure out where the 1% or lower line...
Let’s continue our review of this ingredient list! Ingredients: Aqua (Purified Water), Organic Aloe Vera, Organic Glycerin Oligopeptide 1, Glycosaminoglycans, Organic Squalane, Phospholipids, Sphingolipids, Mel (Honey) Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Anroxyflavin, D-Alpha Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Xanthan Gum, Alpha Bisabolol, Red Wine Extract, Organic Camellia Sinesis (Green Tea) Extract, Glutathione, Superoxide Dismutase, Vaccinum Myrtillus (Bilberry) Extract, Blend of...
Vitamin C is notoriously annoying to work with if you’re not using the right version. In general, you can’t just add l-ascorbic acid to a water based product and be done with it as it’ll oxidize and be awful. This is why we turn to Vitamin C liposomes! Please see part one of this series...
Last week we took a look at AHAs. Today, let’s add some of these to our gelled serum with or without oils using Sepimax ZEN. We’re using a combination of fruit acids you can find as Multifruit BSC, fruit acid complex, and other names because we can add quite a bit of it without having to...
Yesterday we took a look at making a gelled serum with 10% oil with Sepimax ZEN. Today, let’s add some fruit acids to the mix to create something that will act as an AHA or alpha-hydroxy acid, something Sepimax ZEN can handle at up to 4% without problems! As a quick note, it can also...