Skincare recipes and getting started
How do You Know What Ingredients and Their Quantities to Use in a Natural Skincare Recipe?
You’ve decided that you’d like to make a natural skincare product to target a specific skin concern. You’ve decided what skin type it is for. You’ve even designed the packaging! But when it comes to actually making a natural cosmetic product, how do you know what...
Understanding How Your Skin Works
Your skin is amazing. It’s a constantly changing, dynamic and adaptable living organ. It can adapt in an instant, responding to differences in the environment, temperature and light. It is highly sensitive to heat, vibration, movement and pressure, and it protects us...
Making natural skincare products free from chemicals
It’s something we hear all the time - “I want to learn how to make products free from chemicals.” Perhaps that’s something that resonates with you? It’s a sentiment that really means a lot to us - but there’s something we should explain first. You can’t...
Shea and benzoin soothing hand cream for dry skin
The subject of hand care has been a hot topic of late, and due to everyone washing and sanitizing their hands more now we know many people will be experiencing dry skin. It is really important that you keep up with washing hands and don’t avoid doing so. What we can...
Skincare formulation tips
The 5 Best Natural Hand and Nail Treatments
The market is filled with natural remedies for dry hands, natural nail care ranges and homemade hand creams. Hand washes, hand serums, hand lotions, hand treatments, hand balms, and nail and cuticle oils all aim to care for your hands and nails by cleansing them (with...
Create Natural Wash-Off and Gradual Self-Tanning Products for a Perfect Glow
For years, tan lovers have been ditching the skin-damaging sun and harmful tanning beds, in favor of a safer route to a glowing tan. Homemade tanning lotions and natural solutions, such as self-tan sprays, mousses and lotions are becoming more popular. Incredible...
The Benefits of Centella Asiatica (Gotu Kola) for Skin
The benefits of centella asiatica also for skin (also known as gotu kola) have been known for generations. Centella asiatica skincare products have been available and used in skincare products for many years, and has become a huge trend in the skincare industry,...
Pricing Your Natural Beauty Products for Profit: How to Calculate the Perfect Product Selling Price
The decision on how to price your beauty product is a tough one. You’ve spent your precious time, effort and money perfecting your natural and organic beauty products. The images look amazing, and they work wonderfully, but you’re unsure of pricing your natural...
Ingredient information
6 ingredients used to make cold process soaps
Soaps are created by a reaction called saponification, which is a chemical reaction between lye and oil, or better yet between lye and the fatty acids within the oil. The base ingredients that make up natural soap are oils, lye and water. Depending on the oils in the...
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...
Building a business
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....