How to Make Serums; Formulating for Beginners
You can formulate a simple face serum by combining Distilled water with your preservative. Then in another container combining 5%...
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How to use Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride (GuarCat) Exclusive Sept. 2024
Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride aka (GuarCat) is a yellow powder that can dissolve into water to thicken/gel your aqueous (water...
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How to use Salt to Thicken Body Washes, Face Washes, Shampoos & more (Exclusive)
Did you know you can thicken your liquid foaming surfactant based products with just ordinary table salt? Examples of foaming surfactant...
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Everything to know about Niacinamide
Topics Discussed; Benefits of Niacinamide Making a Niacinamide Toner for First Time Formulators How to Write a Formula Why pH is...
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Introduction to Conditioners Exclusive 7/24
Hair Conditioners are a type of Emulsion. This means you need to blend oil and water together using an emulsifier. But what separates a...
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Introduction to Shampoos for Beginners - Exclusive
What Ingredients are needed to Make a Liquid Shampoo There are 3 main ingredients that you can’t skip, when making a shampoo. These 3...
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How I test a New to Me Ingredient (Kojic Acid Dipalmitate-KAD) - 4/24 Exclusive
I’m going to take you through my process of how I like to formulate with a, new to me, ingredient. Things to keep in mind while working...
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How to Test Stability of Emulsions - Formulating For Beginners
Knowing how to create a stable emulsion is crucial if you want to sell cosmetics. If you don’t know what an emulsion is, then you can...
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Comparing Co Emulsifiers; Cetyl, Stearyl, Cetearyl, Behenyl, & Stearic Acid
Intro to each Co Emulsifier I’ll be comparing Cetyl Alcohol (16 C) Also known as 1-hexadecanol or n-hexadecyl alcohol, Palmityl alcohol....
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Occlusives Clogging Pores & Comedogenic Scale...
I talked about this in a recent video you can watch here Occlusives have a bad reputation of clogging pores. But the truth is, they...
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How to Increase Stability of Emulsions | Formulating for Beginners
Have you ever made a lotion and it ended up separating months or maybe weeks later? Are you noticing just a little bit of liquid on the...
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How to Formulate a Simple Lotion for Beginners | Formulating for Beginners
In this video I showed you guys exactly how I wrote the formula for this lotion that way you can customize your own. In this video I...
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How to Convert a Formula from Percents to a Recipe in Grams | Formulating for Beginners
Formula is the first thing you create for your product and it’s written in percents & always adds up to 100% Batch size is the total...
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Consider THIS Before Making Your Next Lotion | Formulating Cosmetics For Beginners
Before you start creating your lotion formula you first need to consider… What skin type are you formulating for? Will this moisturizer...
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Key Ingredients to formulating the perfect MoisturizerHumectants, Emollients, & Occlusives
The dictionary definition of moisturizer is - a lotion or cream used to prevent dryness in the skin. We've already talked about the...
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Best Lotion Emulsifiers for Beginners - Formulating Cosmetics for Beginners
This is a list of all in one emulsifiers that I recommend for beginners who are just starting out with formulating. Quick recap...
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What is an Emulsion? | Formulating Cosmetics for Beginners
An emulsion isn't going to last forever. But it's our job as the cosmetic formulator to do our best to make an emulsion as stable as...
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What Makes a Product Cruelty Free for us Home Crafters? Oct. 2023 Patreon Exclusive
I didn't create a blog of PDF for this exclusive video because, like I mentioned in the video, I don't have black and white information....
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