Naturals, facial masks and color cosmetics featured at in-cosmetics Asia 2017

Three major cosmetics trends which are driving substantial growth within the beauty and personal care [...]

Setting up a cosmetic formulating lab – Mixers

Here’s the next article in our series about starting a cosmetic lab.  Here is the [...]

Setting up a cosmetic lab – Scales and weighing equipment

Here’s the next article in our series about starting a cosmetic lab.  Here is the [...]

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How to set up a cosmetic lab – containers

When you are hired on as a cosmetic chemist out of college you typically will [...]

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Natural cosmetic preservative ingredients and strategies

One of the most common type of questions we get asked here on Chemists Corner [...]

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Natural surfactants for cosmetic products

Cosmetic surfactants are the most versatile and important ingredients in cosmetic formulations. Unfortunately, there are [...]

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in-Cosmetics 2017 recap

  The second day of in-cosmetics Global closed in style, with awards presented to suppliers [...]

Natural cosmetics and Standard cosmetics – What’s the difference?

In a previous article about natural cosmetic products, I wrote about the difficulty in producing [...]

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What is a natural cosmetic?

This month we are going to focus on formulating natural cosmetic products. This continues to [...]

Upcoming Continuing Education Opportunities

If you are looking for some live courses in cosmetic science, the National SCC is [...]

What are claims ingredients?

There are some ingredients that you include in cosmetic formulas to provide a benefit to [...]

Types of surfactants in cosmetics

In our cosmetic surfactant series we’ve talked about what surfactants are and what they do [...]

The addition of colorants in cosmetics

Today we are having a special webinar examining the use of colors in cosmetics. You [...]

10 Things Surfactants Do In Cosmetics

In the first part of our cosmetic surfactant series we talked about what surfactants are [...]

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What are surfactants? A Formulators Guide

Of all the ingredients you could use to formulate cosmetics, surfactants are perhaps the most [...]

Fatty Acids and the Formulator

In our recent post on cosmetic emollients I mentioned that many of them were derived [...]

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Formula adjustment ingredients for cosmetics

When creating cosmetic products in a lab it is easy to have control over the final [...]

Humectants – Cosmetic Formulating Basics

This month we are focusing on cosmetic raw materials. In this post we continue our [...]

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What are emollients in cosmetic formulas?

This month we are focusing on cosmetic raw materials and in this post we’ll talk [...]

Naming cosmetic ingredients – part 2

In the first part of this cosmetic ingredient naming series we covered how the ingredients [...]