Formulating for Beginners

You can formulate a simple face serum by combining Distilled water with your preservative.  Then in another container combining 5%...

Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride  aka (GuarCat) is a yellow powder that can dissolve into water to thicken/gel your aqueous (water...

Did you know you can thicken your liquid foaming surfactant based products with just ordinary table salt?  Examples of foaming surfactant...

Topics Discussed; Benefits of Niacinamide Making a Niacinamide Toner for First Time Formulators How to Write a Formula Why pH is...

Hair Conditioners are a type of Emulsion. This means you need to blend oil and water together using an emulsifier. But what separates a...

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...

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...

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...

Intro to each Co Emulsifier I’ll be comparing Cetyl Alcohol (16 C) Also known as 1-hexadecanol or n-hexadecyl alcohol, Palmityl alcohol....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Before you start creating your lotion formula you first need to consider… What skin type are you formulating for? Will this moisturizer...

The dictionary definition of moisturizer is - a lotion or cream used to prevent dryness in the skin. We've already talked about the...

This is a list of all in one emulsifiers that I recommend for beginners who are just starting out with formulating. Quick recap...

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...

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....