12 articles about technology for cosmetic chemists.
Aloe Vera. Aloe Vera Gel. Aloe Vera Juice. Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe) Leaf Juice. There are even more names here for this nearly ubiquitous ingredient found in both skin and hair care formulations. Many...
Here's a technology I had never heard about, dry water . It sounds fascinating and could result in the creation of truly surfactant free cosmetic products. What is dry water? Dry water is essentially...
Recently we received a request from someone who wanted to make their own face paint for children. Specifically, they wanted to know how to make homemade face paints using natural ingredients that woul...
Cosmetic formulators have long used ingredients from nature to make products. Some of the more common ingredients include Lanolin, Milk, Honey, and Musk. Then there are things like Gelatin, fish scale...
Here's a story about a technological advance by P&G . According to the company, they have developed a spray technology that solves men's "overspray" problem. Their formulators are using some kind of c...
I had a spider that was living on my front porch this fall. She was a cool creature and made some excellent webs. I've always been a fan of spiders and also a fan of our efforts to create spider silk...
As a formulator you should always be on the lookout for new technologies that could support interesting new stories for your products. This story about anti glycation technology used in skin care is a...
Sometime in the early 1990's when I first started in the cosmetic industry, I read a news story (I think it was in C&E News) about snail slime and how shiny it was when it dried. This got me thinking...
One of the top problems that consumers experience when it comes to hair is hair loss. This is particularly troubling for men but women also report hair loss or hair thinning as a significant problem....
I was always of the opinion that innovation in the surfactant field was pretty much finished. It seems there really isn't much more you can do. Perhaps you can make things create more bubbles or make...
I saw some interesting development in the creation of artificial skin . According to scientists at Ohio State University, synthetic skin is getting good enough to mimic animal skins in test labs. This...
One of the most pervasive criticisms of the cosmetic industry is that it tests on animals. In fact, when people learn that I made cosmetics for a living a frequent question is, "do you test on animals...
