9 Fun Fall Ingredients to Try (And One Great Free Recipe!)
Fall is such a wonderful time of year. Summer’s intensity gives way to winter’s cool and quiet time of rest and renewal. The changing of the seasons often means changing the way you think about your skin’s needs and what products are in your skincare items! And, on...
Natural, Simple, and Effective: Why Natural Skincare Ingredients Help your Products Shine
When it comes to skincare, there are many times where the simplest solutions are the best. As you begin formulating your first products, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the abundance of available ingredients! Keeping it simple to start with means you can build skill...
How to Incorporate Herbs and Oils into your Skincare
If you love all things natural and organic, chances are that you’re already drawn to herbal-based and plant-based products—and not just in your skincare!You might own and regularly use first-aid creams made with calendula, hypericum, comfrey, arnica, lavender,...
The Hunt for High-Quality Ingredients: How to Find a Quality Cosmetic Ingredient Supplier!
Exceptional, high-quality products always start with high-quality ingredients—and there’s nothing you can do during the process to make a poor-quality oil, butter, or botanical product into a higher-quality one. The abundance of online and in-person sources for...
Choosing the Right Carrier Oils for your Product
We’ve already shared some of the easy ways that different ingredients can be swapped for more affordable, luxurious, or high-performance choices. When it comes to most formulations, many carrier oils can be swapped out in fairly equal amounts, without much adjustment...
Swap Like a Pro: Simple Swaps for Common (and Uncommon!) Skincare Ingredients
We often hear from people who have questions about swapping out specific ingredients when they are working on their own skincare formulations, or when they are missing ingredients a recipe is asking for. You might also want to swap one ingredient for another when...
Five essential vitamins to support skin elasticity
The natural aging process reduces the elasticity of our skin. While this can be accepted as part of aging gracefully, there are vitamins that can help support and improve skin elasticity and therefore help improve the appearance of aging skin. Let’s take a look at...
13 Natural anti-aging skin care secrets formulators swear by
The natural anti aging skin care market is overflowing with products that aim to either combat all signs of aging or are targeted to fight particular signs of aging. Labels, adverts and packaging market products as containing certain ingredients and claim the...
Our secret facial serum ingredient
Today we're sharing our secret facial serum ingredient that has proven a hit with many of our students! Our secret ingredient is...olive squalane (INCI: Squalane). There are so many benefits of using olive squalane in your skincare products. Let's explore them now....
How to substitute ingredients when making skincare products
Has this ever happened to you: You find a product that you want to make but you are missing one or more of the ingredients? You live in a country where some ingredients are not readily available? You want to save money by using less expensive ingredients while still...
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