[wombat1]

Thank you,

I’ll take a deeper look at the actives and try and whittle them down.

That;s a great thread Mark, thank you

Rebecca

[wombat1]

I’ve been gleaning information from scientific studies in the writeups of the products on some of the ingredient suppliers selling them, so I’ve tried to use the amount in the range that the studies did. Next step will be to look for the primary material.

That’s an interesting article Perry. So my extracts might be useless! I will keep researching.

Parabens it might be, as I didn’t hear back from the only Australian supplier of Dr Straetmans preservative.

thanks
Rebecca

[wombat1]

Thanks for the replies. That makes sense. I’m happy to experiment, I’m my own guinea pig. I’ve long been interested in how skincare is made. I’ll increase the emulsifier and adjust the other ingredients.

I appreciate the response. Sorry for my late reply!

[wombat1]

Thank you Mark

I’ll definitely look at that preservative. I included a lot of actives as I wanted to address a couple of things with the formula - general antiaging plus photoaging in particular. The actives I was going to include are:

copper peptide ghk
Natural Active Peptides  1g
Phytosterols  2gm

coenzyme q10  0.6g
niacinamide B3 3-4gm

Aloe Vera Powder 1gm

Betulinic Acid  1.5g
Selenomethionine  0.2g
glucosamine 2.5g

Alpha Lipoic Acid (R) 0.3g
Hyaluronic Acid 0.5g
coconut endosperm 1.5g
lipochroman-6  0.015gm
quercitin 1g

I’m not sure of the ph of the cream as that wasn’t indicated in the recipe and I haven’t made it yet. I will get those ph adjusters so I have them on hand if I need to adjust the ph when its made.

thanks
Rebecca