Formulating Natural Foot Care Products
Formulate with advanced keratolytic ingredients for smooth, soft feet.
Create your own high-performance foot care products to soften, smooth, and hydrate your feet—perfect for a rejuvenating home foot spa.
Foot skin is prone to hyperkeratosis, leading to thickened skin, roughness, calluses, and cracks. In this class, you’ll explore keratolytic ingredients, including salicylic acid, lactic acid, urea, and allantoin, which help shed dead skin and restore softness.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
The theory and science
Regular emulsions moisturize dry skin but aren’t effective for hyperkeratosis, which causes thick, rough, or cracked skin, often leading to calluses and corns.
To treat hard, dry skin on the feet, stronger ingredients like keratolytic agents are needed. These work by breaking down keratin, helping dead skin shed naturally and leaving the skin softer.
You will learn:
- How to work with a variety of keratolytic active ingredients, including:
- Salicylic acid
- AHAs
- Urea
- Allantoin
- How to stabilize urea in your formulations to prevent pH drift, as well as tips for effectively solubilizing salicylic acid.
- About other beneficial ingredients for the feet that hydrate, promote skin cell regeneration and skin smoothness.
As this is a more advanced class, it is suitable for formulators who are already confident with making emulsions and testing and adjusting pH.
Ready-to-use formulations and guidelines for formulating your own products
In this class, we’ll share four high-performance foot care formulations designed to treat dry, rough skin, hyperkeratotic skin, as well as calluses and cracked heels.
✔ Herbal Foot Soak – with urea and allantoin to soften the skin with their keratolytic properties.
✔ Refreshing Foot Scrub – a non-greasy, gel-based scrub with ground pumice, as a natural physical exfoliant.
✔ Anti-Callus Foot Lotion – a light, quickly absorbed lotion with urea and salicylic acid for their keratolytic, skin softening properties.
✔ Softening Foot Cream – a two-in-one product that exfoliates rough skin and hydrates dry skin. Formulated with lactic acid as a chemical exfoliant and panthenol to promote skin hydration and regeneration.
You’ll receive a beautiful PDF textbook to download and you can watch us make the Refreshing Foot Scrub in our detailed step-by-step video demonstration.
Follow our formulations and then create your own!
Here’s what’s included
Beautiful textbook to download with step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs.
Practical demonstration video showing step by step how to make the Refreshing Foot Scrub.
Tried and tested formulations to use, plus guidelines for creating your own unique formulations.
Join the live Formulators' Forum and connect face-to-face with your student and graduate peers (hosted monthly on Zoom).
Study from anywhere in the world at your own pace.
Expert support from our Cosmetic Scientists within the monthly Tutor Q&A.
Support from your student and graduate peers from around the world inside our Private Student and Graduate Community (hosted on Facebook).
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Formulating Natural Foot Care Products
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Enrollment closes Midnight Friday 6th June (LA Time)
Enroll now for one simple price of
US $97
Instant access to your class after payment.
Includes 90 days access inside the Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club. Download the class textbook for lifetime use.
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FAQs
You have access to the class for 90 days inside our Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club. You can download the class textbook for lifetime access, so please do this within 90 days of enrolling. The class video can only be watched inside the Club.
Extend your class access by joining the Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club! As a member, you’ll unlock a new class each month and become part of our vibrant online community. Take part in Tutor Q&As, live Formulators’ Forums, Formulation Challenges, and guided discussions—plus connect with a supportive network of fellow formulators.
This is a self-study class. If you’d like tutor support from our Cosmetic Scientists, we invite you to join our Natural Cosmetic Formulation Club. As a member, you’ll unlock a new class each month and become part of our vibrant online community. Take part in Tutor Q&As, live Formulators’ Forums, Formulation Challenges, and guided discussions—plus connect with a supportive network of fellow formulators.