What Makes one Cosmetic Ingredient Better than another?
As a cosmetic chemist, you will be often visited by chemical sales people and presented “new” raw materials to put in your formulas. Or you…
A Cosmetic Industry Overview for Cosmetic Chemists
In college, science majors spend their time learning complicated subjects like Calculus, Physics and Chemistry. Figuring out stuff like differential equations and bond angles of…
7 Reasons You Can Benefit From Going to a Cosmetic Chemistry Trade Show
Tomorrow is the Midwest SCC trade show featuring raw material suppliers from around the world. Here you will find companies with displays on new ingredients,…
How to Prevent Contamination in Cosmetic Products
This recent article about scientists discovering bacteria living in hairspray provides a good example of why cosmetic products need to be preserved. Microbes can grow…
The 10 Different Types of Cosmetic Formulas You Must Know
While there are literally thousands of different types of cosmetic products, there are actually only 10 different types of cosmetic formulas. Here is a brief…
The Basics of Cosmetic Chemistry
I found a couple of interesting articles that explain the absolute basic compounds used in modern day cosmetics. Neither of these are particularly thorough, but…
10 Science Topics for Cosmetic Chemists That Were Barely Covered in College
Review of the 10 most important science topics every cosmetic chemist needs to know to work successfully in the cosmetic industry. These are also fre…
HLB - The Easiest Way to Create An Emulsion
As a cosmetic chemist you will undoubtedly be asked to make products that require you to combine materials that aren’t easily compatible. Fortunately, there…
How to make a cosmetic formula
I’m experimenting with a whole new type of video recording. What do you think? If you’re interested in the program that was discussed in the…
How Do Cosmetic Raw Materials Get Their Names?
I must confess. One of my favorite things about being a chemist is getting to say long words and knowing what they mean. I loved…
Knockout Experiments for Cosmetics - The Fastest Way to Become an Expert Formulator
There are many different routes you can take to learn to become an expert formulation chemist but few are more powerful than conducting your own…
Why Cosmetic Chemists Should Always Try Their Products
The number of people I’ve known who work on products that they’ve never even tried has always amazed me . They miss so much when…
How to Read a Scientific Journal Article
If you want to stay up on the latest research in cosmetic science, you’ll have to learn to quickly filter and read scientific papers. With…
Lab Notebooks and the Cosmetic Chemist
When I was in college I dreaded writing lab reports. They seemed so structured and uncreative that doing them was a chore. Then you had…
Cosmetic Tests You Must Run Before Launching Your Product
Many followers of this website have a desire to create and sell their own product. We continue to work on a training program that shows…
A Dozen ways you can become a luckier Cosmetic Chemist
I played some poker last night and it is always a reminder to me that being lucky is a much bigger factor than anything else…
Cosmetic Chemist Jargon - Acronyms of the Industry
A list of over 100 cosmetic industry acronyms and their meaning. Essential knowledge for a cosmetic scientist.
Most common cosmetic preservatives
We frequently see brands that claim to be “paraben free” and “formaldehyde free.” With so many new brands making this claim it might surprise you…
The Chemistry of Hair Colors
Yesterday, I did a talk for a cosmetic science class at the University of Toledo which outlined the hair research I did which eventually resulted…
Demonstrating a cosmetic benefit
I was reading my twitter feed and noticed someone reporting from the annual PCPC conference (#pcpc2014 in case you are searching Twitter). The following quote…