Day 20 - Dissecting An Ingredient List

Perry44 February 6, 2016

Welcome to Day 20 of the 30 Days to Become a Better Cosmetic Chemist series

This 30 day challenge is all about giving you lessons and basic exercises that will improve your abilities as a cosmetic chemist.

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In this episode

In today’s program we’re going to talk about raw materials, ingredient lists, and what you can learn from them. We’ll be covering exactly how you can create a close approximation of any formula just by using their ingredient list.

In this episode you’ll find:

Six step method for analyzing an ingredient list
Where to find ingredient lists for products
Figuring out which ingredients are important
Finding the 1% line
Guessing the level of ingredients in the formula
Including important low-level secondary ingredients
Making your new prototypes

Today’s challenge

Follow the 6 steps and see if you are able to create a reasonable duplicate.

Put your analysis in the comments below.

My two favorite places to find LOIs is Drugstore.com and Ulta.com

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Perry44

Perry has been formulating cosmetic products and inventing solutions to solve consumer problems since the early 1990’s. Additionally, he has written and edited numerous articles and books, taught continuing education classes for industry scientists, and developed successful websites. His latest book is Beginning Cosmetic Chemistry 3rd Edition published by Allured.

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