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Holiday Recipe Guide – Perfect Natural Skincare Products for the Festive Season
Give a gorgeous, homemade, natural skincare gift this year to delight your friends and family. It will really show your loved ones how much you care and is much more fun than battling through crowded shops! We have curated some of our most fabulous recipes in this...
Free Men’s Natural Deodorant Recipe: Refreshing Kaolin, Shea and Lime Natural Deodorant
Natural deodorants are a good option for anyone who wishes to avoid synthetic ingredients typically found in commercial deodorants. Natural deodorants can be just as effective, but are much more eco-friendly. First of all, it is important to understand the difference...
Free Men’s Beard Oil Recipe: Conditioning Argan and Cedar Beard Oil
Beards have definitely come back into fashion over the last few years and the trend only seems to be growing in popularity. Every November, men around the world join forces to grow moustaches for what has become known as ‘Movember’, to raise awareness of men’s health....
Palm Oil-free Face Lotion Formula: Floral Moisturizing Fluid
Many of our students are interested in using palm oil-free emulsifiers. Palm oil is so prevalent in the cosmetics industry that palm oil-free options are still fairly limited. Our team of formulators have been trialling six palm oil-free emulsifiers with great...
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Men’s Versus Women’s Skincare – What’s the Difference?
When we think about skincare and treating different skin types, we typically think about dry, sensitive, oily and combination skin. And this is a great place to start, because no matter who you are or where you come from, these factors are all relevant. However, when...
Creating a Broad-spectrum Preservative System for Natural Skincare Products
Without a doubt the questions we get asked the most are about natural preservatives for cosmetics! There are several useful blog posts on our website that cover the basics: Do You Need to Use Preservatives in Homemade Natural Skincare Products? and 3 Natural...
How to turn a skincare recipe into a cosmetic formula
If you have been using a natural skincare recipe for a cosmetic product for a while and you like it, you might want to turn it into a cosmetic formula. Professional cosmetic formulas are written in percentages. Before we look at a cosmetic formula, let us look...
How to test and adjust the pH of natural skincare products (and why you should)
We get asked all the time about how to measure the pH of skincare products – what pH is, when you need to measure it and how to measure it. Here you’ll discover the answers to these questions, as well as why we measure it and how to adjust your pH testing equipment....
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5 Vegan Beeswax Alternatives for Natural Skincare (+ Free Sweet Orange Lip Balm Recipe!)
Waxes are often an essential part of a cosmetic formulation. Waxes help harden liquid oils, which plays a crucial role in making lip balms, ointments, solid lotion bars and other natural skincare products. One of the most commonly used waxes is beeswax. Beeswax is...
What is the Difference Between a Preservative and an Antioxidant?
It’s quite possible you have heard that preservatives and antioxidants are used to extend the shelf-life of cosmetic products. For this reason, some people mix the two terms up. But in reality, preservatives and antioxidants have very different mechanisms for...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2020
With the holidays right around the corner, are you searching for the perfect gift for a natural beauty lover? This festive season we are delighted to recommend seven luxurious natural skincare products from inspirational students and graduates close to our heart. We...
How Tanya juggled life with kids, work and studying natural skincare to launch her beauty brand, Indagare Beauty
Where Indagare began Tanya Joslin struggled with hormonal, severely congested skin for many years, and was running out of options. Stress levels, diet, I tried everything. I'd used dermatologist-prescribed creams and antibiotics, and my frustration levels were rising....
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