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Aha fruit extract
Hiya i am new to skincare formulating and wanted to create some home made skincare for myself and daughters as buying good skincare can be quite expensive but most of all i wanted to create skincare with ingredients which i know are going to be good and beneficial to the skin .I wanted to create a aha fruit acid toner to use as part of my night time skincare routine and i have looked everywhere for a quick recipe but have been unable to find one , would somebody be able to help me please thanks in advance.
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The reality is that it will cost you more money to produce your own products. And they likely won’t work as good or be as safe. You do not have to spend a lot of money to get skin care products that are beneficial.
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@Sam0794, if you truly are new to formulating, you should probably leave chemical exfoliants for when you have some more experience.
Granted, handling and formulating with fruit acid extract is not as worrisome as handling glycolic or lactic acids, but it can still be a difficult thing to do safely for a novice.So before you start this endeavors, I would like to ask you the following:
- How are you measuring your ingredients? Do you have good quality scale/balances that allows you to measure “at least” fractions of grams (on one end), and “at least” hundreds of grams (on the other end)?
- What tools do you have to measure the pH of your final product, down to 0.1 units of pH?
- What other ingredients are you planning to use? The most basic AHA liquid could contain only water, AHA, pH adjuster, preservative. From there you can add other ingredients, humectants, emollients, rheology modifiers, claim (or fancy label) ingredients that don’t do much; the AHAs will do all the hard work, but you added 0.01% of Internecivus raptus extract, so now you can make the unsubstantiated claim that it was the extract that did its job).
However, not all ingredients will be ultimately compatible or stable for long at your target pH.It doesn’t take much to transform a lightly exfoliating overnight formula to a low-strength chemical peel.
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I spent many months reading, over 100 hours in formulating and thousands in ingredients to create one formula. It is not cheaper.
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Whoooa! That’s the worst idea ever to start formulating from acids. The cheapest pH meter stats at £60, and the professional ones are measured in hundreds and without it you will burn your skin. There’s a reason why you can’t find a ‘recipe’.
I confirm @alan123 ‘s message. It’s thousands of dollars and thousands of hours. It’s still worth it for me, not because it’s cheaper though.
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The Ordinary sell acid peels for less than $10 btw.
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