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Maybe have a look at some sample formulations, for example by Kobo.The main difference to you is production methods: they micronise/homogenise (that's something you can't do with a coffee grinder) and they press real hard (you're pressing with proba…
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@Fekher I only know that they get aggressive here around and during the warmer seasons, especially when it's dry and hot like this year and they are very much attracted by sweets and sting unprovoked when they're hungry. Wasps are likely not that mu…
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How do you process your ingredients and how exactly do you make your pressed products?
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Sorbitol sounds safer... If you ever sell products with sugar syrup, don't sell to Europe during summer/fall or your customers will have a real hard time running from hungry wasps ;) .
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@PhilGeis I've only zipped through your first recommendation and it looks really promising, certainly better than the others I've read so far. For my taste it could be a bit more in depth regarding single substance but that's just me. I haven't read…
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(Quote) If you're fairly fluent in German, then the PTA Forum on the DAC/NRF site might be a place to look at. However, its focus is on pharmaceutical preparations (BTW German PTAs are usually better formulators than German pharmacists).Me,…
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I'm trying to formulate only with 'naturals' (in a broad and biased sense) but honestly, I struggle with natural gelling agents... xanthan is my basis but those acrylics make life so much easier. I can live without PEGs and even silicones (though th…
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@Graillotion Should you go for that red fruit extract: a pinch copper peptide might help the colour to a deeper and more purple hue. The amount added would hence depend mostly on colour cause else, it's all about pixie dust... well, to be honest, c…
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They don't claim 'organic certified', they claim 'organic beauty' and, I'm sure, that kind of beauty is caused only by the organic ingredients, not the (chemical) excipients :smiley: .
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Welcome to the world of marketing and advertisement. Their job is to find a way how to dupe consumers whilst (barely) sticking to the law.
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The use of the expression 'polarity' is not super accurate and very cosmetic because cosmetic isn't an exact science and often performed by people without or minimal education in natural science; it would be useless for most manufacturers if raw ing…
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Why didn't you just buy a bottle with your own money and filled up 5g? A job done at the speed of superman, if this isn't worthy employee of the month and a pay raise LoL.
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(Quote) Patentability is a strong driving force or rather an enormous hindrance if a product can't be patented. Preservatives are traditionally simple small molecules. Usually, you can't patent those because they are already known and/or patented (b…
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If I (at the pharmacy = not neccessarily cosmetics but drugs, from OTC to presctiption over TCM etc.) outsource something to a contract manufacturer, we have to have a contract (it's mandatory for both of us) which includes who is responsible for wh…
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(Quote) Not exactly a chemical... but Botox did that trick :pensive: Else, you're aboslutely right. It's also very weird which articles find public resonance and which ones don't. The original article about parabens was piss poor and nobod…
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None, there is none... unless you're willing to add >20% ethanol to your products.You could probably make a blend of different single ones so you end up with one single bottle containing 'one' preservative?The best technique, especially in 'natur…
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Then you have three options:A: Distillation (which isn't easy)B: Use a manufacturing process which doesn't result in colour C: Discard the gue and buy pure glycerin
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Azelaic acid is nearly insoluble in acid form (and inactive in its water soluble salt form) and salicylic acid is only sparingly soluble in water... what are the %?For which reason do you add polysorbate 80? What's the pH, how do you plan on keeping…
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@Graillotion Do you have loa loa?
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But they are growing in number...As a sales person, I don't like most of them as clients, they suck. Sorry to say so! Knowing more about ingredients, doing research, and caring for something other than him/herself and beauty is actually a noble thin…
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@Pattsi It will be prescribed as usual: - Proprietary drugs: Brand name of original, sometimes generic brand name, and less often active ingredient with % and galenic form- Stuff which has to be made in a pharmacy: Super rare... usually active ingre…
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That publication is easy to read things into it which aren't there. The way I interprete it is that liquid crystal networks aka lamellar structures are problematic (especially for bacteria and/or levulinate/GMCY) and the preservation system (GMCY, l…
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Not sure who but someone here on board mentioned in an older thread dehydroxanthan as better suited for hair care.My wife has curly hair and recently got a new product to try out... it's mainly water and dehydroxanthan. She likes it (it's not her fa…
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@Perry True that. However, cosmetics also upcycles and re-purposes other waste materials, not just from petrochemistry. Which is acutally great but maybe not exactly what consumers want to hear. Customer 'Do you have any natural cosmetics?'. Me 'Sur…
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Or check out THIS or THAT.
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Well... here in Switzerland, though we have some of the strictest regulations in some regards, pharmaceuticals still don't need to list excipients but only actives (with amount). If you want to know more, you have to contact the manufacturers. Fortu…
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If you want to know if something is natural, there's the Dictionary of Natural Products. It's not law but THE reference work for scientists. Sure, one has to read the publications to know more about a given molecule.The definition of natural is simp…
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(Quote) Why don't you want to search in PubMed or ScienceDirect? Anyway, maybe try THIS.
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@Abdullah I found some publications on PubMed and ScienceDirect. I didn't safe them... sorry!
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@PhilGeis For example if you have close to 100% organic ingredients... which come in a non-recyclable plastic bottle... ough... I give up!
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