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Submerge the container in hot water and problem solved. Cheap and easy.
Or does the consistency change drastically even in airless pots?.
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And perhaps it gets blocked on page reload.
Nope, 15 minutes is the rule.Another thing, I guess the protection is set by default, but HTML view can be dangerous (code injection and such).
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So far so good, I like the fact that I can edit the post (or I just noticed now?)
It would be nice to have extended options on comments for the mobile version (I can’t insert links for example), but it’s not important.
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It is, just buy better oils.
Fixer? That’s rubbish.
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@ozgirl mainly aroma ingredients, but they also produce vitamin A and E.
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LOL @glasses
Nice article. I think you could add a small paragraph about the certificate of analysis and the accepted ranges
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Something important I always keep in mind is that companies want to sell, so never work just with the information a salesman provides. Even if you know and trust the supplier, double check with the manufacturer if possible.
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That’s usually a combo of stearate and distearate, both opacifiers and pearlizers.
Leave the micas and TiO2 for solid products, unless you have the machinery and the right medium you are wasting time and resources. Keep it simple.
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Why would you add titanium dioxide?. It’s hard to suspend, even if you heat it it will precipitate. I’d stick to disterate and maybe a little styrene/butadiene and regular colors.
For suspending TiO2 and micas you’ll need something like this.
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Ah, you are asking a very complex thing. You are practically asking for a guide to set up a factory. From my point of view there are two ways of learning. A) work experience
trial and error. No one is going to give that knowledge for free, it takes a lot of time, money and effort to have a working factory.
Best advice, read as much as you can and hire an experienced formulator or at least a consultant. You can ask on this forum, there are many talented and experienced chemists that do precisely what you are asking as a job.
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Nitrofurans might also play a role in there.
I hope it doesn’t take a massive intoxication or a tragedy before an organism start regulating this.
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Micellar water was the first to come to mind. Everytime I see the ad I yell at the TV.
Water fragrances can be hydrosols, so it’s possible.
The term chemical free, instead of synthetic free. Of course nobody reads the very tiny letters on the back that covers the company from a lawsuit. But the concept is so stupid that makes me laugh.
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Sometimes the manufacturers use a blend of plastics to make it cheaper. You don’t notice except in cases like this. I buy bottles that are not 100% PET and are much cheaper. In this case you can see it, the transparency is not the same, but in the case of hundreds of thousands even less than 1% would make a huge profit.
Send the bottles to a lab.
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The clorhexidine is used as a preservative, but I wouldn’t use in that formula. In general is used in hand soap in medicine at 4%, the big advantage is that you can use it over damaged skin too, so it has replaced at some point the classic iodine. Its also widely used in odontology at lower percentages.
The disadvantage is that doesn’t cover a wide range, like fungi and gram- unless you use it at high percentage. That’s why is generally used in combination.
I recommend it, but for products that will be in contact with the skin. A cream with 0.5% is ideal and can even be used as disinfectant of wounds.
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It has dioxane, that doesn’t mean it will cause harm.
If you don’t want to use ethoxylated products you can use ethanol.
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http://lipidlibrary.aocs.org/OilsFats/content.cfm?ItemNumber=40321
Theres a lot of info on the site, you can do more reading.
Btw, sodium hypochlorite+acid doesn’t seem wise.
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What you need is not in that formula. Those are extracts, which have a solvent, not essential oils.
The most common for what you need is tween 20.
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Nice, pretty much what the market is claiming right now, there ain’t more natural than that!. Too bad we won’t see it for the next 5 or 10 years.
I wonder how are they going to produce it on large scale. I guess by then the cost-effective ratio will be lower on the biotech field.
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When it’s less than 1% you can put them in any order.
https://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/Labeling/Regulations/ucm126444.htm
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Any filling process will introduce air in your product. The best solution is a vacuum filling machine.
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The ones I know about are menthol gels or creams. What the “slim pros” usually do is use it with plastic wrap to induce sweat. The gel does nothing but a hot/cold feeling, but they can overcharge the customers for wraping them like leftovers.
And it works…
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It will be helpful if you provide more information, like where are you from and what kind of product are you going to make.
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It’s OK to charge for the R&D, the knowledge and the effort, just don’t add an extra 0 to it!.
A common mistake to think the customer has to pay every cost involved and more. This isn’t medicine.
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@MarkBroussard that’s the Coca Cola style, and sadly it works. But in cosmetics I think it’s harder for the consumers to know if a product is worth the price or they are being ripped off.
I think the logic for cosmetics is:
better packaging and design> the company invests in a pretty thing that goes with the product quality.
higher price > the product is better (meaning more “concentrated”, better or more components, or whatever logic that applies)It’s rare to see a consumer reading the INCI, simply because they don’t understand it. But let’s say they read it, what would they see?. A large label with many components. If they compare to a different product with a shorter INCI, it’s logical to think it’s better because it has more things, and that it’s worth to pay the price because is more complete.
I have to agree with Perry, the buyer is the victim of an unscrupulous company.