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Absolutely. I love to read new patents and I avidly follow the release of new ingredients and often make test formulations to try on the test panel. And I get excited when I see visible results. But “unique”? Hell, no!

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sorry for the double posting, please delete one, Perry!

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Frankly, if you have been contacting people using fonts and colours as per above, they will likely not want to respond to you. There is no such thing as a “unique” skin care product. Marketing is what makes a viable business and a nuanced, professional approach in communications is the first item.

An “idea” is not a start. If you take an “idea” to a formulating company, the formula they produce will be their design, not yours.

Step one would be to make a test formulation to see if it’s even possible at the design level.

Step two would be to test it on volunteers to see if it actually has any positive effect.

Step three would be to determine an appropriate business model.

and so on . . .

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You need the advice of an industrial chemist rather than a cosmetic chemist. I don’t know enough about possible reactions to advise you. Some bleaches - for instance peroxides - combine with all sorts of lab materials, especially solvents, to form high explosives.

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I’m an engineer originally, with some experience of sealing multilayer plastics (the sealer I developed was an impulse sealer closed by air rams and controlled by a PLC)

@Fastfiller - your contribution interested me. I watched the video and did some research into how the hot air sealers work. Interesting.

However I went one step further, and for small manufacturers I think ultrasonic sealing offers a better choice at lower cost. EG THIS at $2,420 FOB. You’d need to add a couple of hundred dollars for consolidated freight of course. I can foresee buying one of these.

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Yes Farouk, absolutely. We make cold process soap here (solid) and I spent several months experimenting with liquid (natural) soap. In the end I rejected the liquid form because:

1. It was an absolute pain to make it.

2. It was more drying to the skin. Superfatting results in a cloudy soap, visually unattractive.

3. The shelf life was not as good.

4. The synthetic (based on a blend) was easy to make cold - no time spent heating or cooling.

5. The synthetic has better foam.

6. The synthetic has far better sensorials.

7. The synthetic doesn’t dry the skin.

8. The synthetic tolerates many more fragrances without clouding.

9. The synthetic is much cheaper to make.

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Don’t forget the packaging issues. For instance my MOQ on an upmarket acrylic 50mL pot is 500 off, at approx. $2 each.

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If the product is made and packaged properly there is no need.

It would look amateurish - it would appear as if the product were separating.

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Don’t do it.

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I think I would begin by knocking out the hyaluronic acid. The shea is such a small percentage, I doubt that’s the cause.

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Synthetics will produce a good result. It is similar to making a shampoo, less complicated.

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I don’t think salt thickening will work so you may as well omit that.

Secondly, I doubt that Xanthan gum will give good sensorials.

A thickener such as glucamate VLT will give great sensorials, improve the preservative, and better foam.

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It’s impossible to predict something like this. You will just have to proceed one step at a time.

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Unfortunately your question has no answer, at least not from me, for the following reasons:

1. I am unable to find any definition of the term “hypoallergenic” in reference to personal care products.

2. One person’s allergen is another person’s balm.

3. The world is full of so called hypoallergenic products, which generally aren’t. For instance THIS shampoo, which has decyl glucoside as its main component - a known allergen referenced recently in Dermatology Magazine. You might like to read the customer comments about it.

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I forgot to address the cloudiness issue. This means the surfactant is not able to form a clear emulsion. If you are using an essential oil, I had better tell you straight away that some essential oils cannot be used in a clear formula, they will always cloud. Lavender for instance.

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1. You need to work in percentages. You have 1,176g not 1000g.

2. Every ingredient should be measured in grams.

3. There isn’t enough surfactant

4. Research what the SALT CURVE means - you have too much salt.

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What on earth is oud wood?

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When it arrives the first thing I will do is use it at 2% in my body wash product. Great!

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Interesting concept!

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Very good, I just bought a pound of it, complete with shipping to Mexico it’s only $20. How nice to have another interesting substance on the shelf. These sweet compounds all seem to be actives (Stevia - hair growth; GL acid, hair growth; etc)

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Great, thank you very much. Despite the incredibly high price of the active I am going ahead with it as a high end item, I will have to source some gorgeous high-end pots to put it in. I think airless will be best, yes?

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I have designed large heat sealers for multilayer plastics (we’re talking about seals 4ft in length) and I can tell you the heat seal process is more finicky than most people realise because of all the variables, which include:

1. Materials combination.

2. Seal thickness.

3. Temperature.

4. Pressure.

5. Time.

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Oxidation of the vitamin C. However I doubt that what you’re doing is actually preserving the vitamin C, it likely still deteriorates, it’s just that you are using a bleaching agent. 

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Your pH is incorrect. The pH must be < 6 and I recommend pH = 5.

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browning? what on earth would cause that? We can’t begin to help unless you post the ingredients list.