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Why? Are they “protecting” the pharmaceutical industry? Or what? Please don’t tell me it is to “protect consumers” because I don’t believe it for a moment. It must be money.
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It took me about 4 years of hands-on lab practice and reading to become competent with formulation although I was able to produce my first products by knocking-off existing formulae. However I now find myself replacing the early ones because I can see better methods / ingredients.
Apart from the time, I have about 150 raw material ingredients, a small personal lab, and a few thousand $ worth of equipment. If you are looking at opening a retail store then budget around $30,000. If you’re not looking at opening a retail store then you will need to spend a lot of time considering distribution methods. Online may work for you IF you live in an advanced country where people are used to buying on line. -
Either make a carbomer cream using Carbopol to stabilise it, or you will need to replace some of the liquid lipids components with solids eg stearic acid, cetyl alcohol.
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If you try searching this forum you will quickly see that we’ve been in this discussion before.
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Update.
The three month results are in from the testers. It’s a small test group because we didn’t have a lot of raw material.
Photo age spots: faded by 70%
Melasma (face): faded by at least 50%.
I am particularly delighted by the melasma response because we have had a fair number of requests for a product that can help, and this is the first system that we tried that has been effective. I am now going to add some more actives (eg licorice extract) we should have the product ready in about 4 weeks. -
By the way if anyone is interested in the economics etc of running a retail operation, I am working on the business plan for our first retail store and looking to exchange ideas with anyone interested. While I say that we’re like Lush, we’re not really. After reading right through their catalogue, they have very few “core” products and an awful lot of what I regard as fripperies. I mean, refreshing foot powder? Bath bombs? Not mainstream products in my playbook.
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Yes, C5 provides me with complete access. Actually I don’t bother to use FTP, C5 comes complete with up/download file access. I just open the file manager and drag ‘n drop. I am waiting on the graphic designer at the moment, we are changing all labelling, corporate design, packaging, the lot!
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Another member of our test panel just reported good fading of melasma spots due to the vitamin C / glycrhizzic acid test formula. As Bob said, you need a product that is absorbed into the skin. Rinse off products are almost useless.
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@pma: Many thanks for the links! Good to know Avon are in trouble, they are no. 1 in Mexico according to the Euromonitor reports, and Mary Kay presumably should also be having problems if the reasons given in The Economist are correct.
I also noted this: “Customers no longer order through catalogues.” In which case I wonder why the hell Lush (Canada) produces an 83-page full colour catalogue that resembles a large format novel. (Lush’s prices for some products are insane. Who pays $44 for a 500mL shampoo?) -
Complaint, complete with screen shots, submitted to the UK Advertising Standards Agency. I will report progress. . .
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“Nanoparticle effectors”, “Body Intelligence” - I think I will report this company to the Advertising Standards Authority.
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Damn, I missed getting in again. LOL
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It’s a great idea. I have no idea yet if it will sell, however.
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See example (6) for pet applications. Interesting.
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It separated due to formulation problems.
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Try 1% colloidal oatmeal powder.
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Richards is the same as McKernan, the 65mm jar has ceased to exist.
Wholesale Supplies is only selling the 58mm which I hate, and my source cost for that model here is roughly 70% of the US prices. But thanks for trying!I have just bought 600-off of the black 70mm pots, tops and liners and I can live with that MOQ. I’m about to buy a trial run of 50g airless pump which to my surprise I found here in Mexico at a good price and low MOQ. I also found a super nice 400mL shampoo bottle and 75mL atomiser so I have quite a lot going on with packaging right now. Oh and I have to design the box for the airless pump and the product leaflet too! Argh!
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Please learn how to use Google, you could have found this in your time rather than my spending ten minutes on it:
Hydrophile–Lipophile Balance (HLB) of the Emulsifiers
The HLB values were estimated experimentally by the Griffin method [16]. The composition of the emulsion during the evaluation of HLB was as follows: oil phase (paraffin oil/paraffin wax, 9:1 w/w): 40 wt%; water: 55 wt%; emulsifier: 5 wt%. As a standard Tween 60 (HLB = 14.9) and Span 60 (HLB 4.7) emulsifiers were used. The confidence interval of the HLB values was 0.1.
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I don’t think you should use nonyl phenol in a consumer product.
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Glucamate VLT is a superb thickener, it has great long-flow sensorials and also improves preservative performance. However it is rather expensive. Adding 1% cocamide MEA allows reduction of the thickener percentage and further improves foam.
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good @pma. What % of this 100x powder is being used?
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Skin bleaching is such a dangerous area and ethically too, I personally want to be nowhere near it.
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No chance. Won’t work ever. Sorry.