Blog For Cosmetic Professionals — Ingredient

What Is The Best Way To Do An Ingredient List For Tablet Soap?

Posted by Colin Sanders on

Here's an issue that has come up a few times lately. How do list the ingredients on tablet soap?The reason for ingredient lists on cosmetics is to enable people who have allergies to particular chemicals to identify products that might give them a problem. This is a worthy objective, and to make sure that it is indeed effective there are rules that require companies to follow a standard format in the way they list those ingredients. This makes perfect sense, but there is a slight bug in the system. If you are adding an ingredient which reacts with another ingredient...

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Ambergris

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A sperm whale full of ambergris has been washed up on the beach in Holland.  The quantity is 83Kg, and will keep perfumers who use it as a fixative going for years. The origin of ambergris was unknown for many years.  It was found from time to time on beaches. Its scarcity made it enormously valuable.   Once industrial scale whaling got underway its origin in the digestive system of whales became obvious. It also led to the pursuit of sperm whales, with disastrous consequences for their numbers.  To combat this trade in ambergris is banned in many countries. The...

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Are Parabens, Formaldehyde and Methylchloroisothiazolinone still needed?

Posted by Colin Sanders on

I have taken the title of this post almost word for word from an article printed in Personal Care April 2013 written by staff from Dr Straetmans.  They assert that their product, Dermasoft OMP is good enough to stand comparison with more widely used preservatives such as formaldehyde donors like imidazolidinyl urea , the isothiazolinones and the parabens.The drawbacks or all three of these are well known.  Nobody likes the idea of putting formaldehyde on their skin at any level.  You can put up a good scientific defence of formaldehyde - it is so widespread from natural sources that it is...

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Monoi Oil

Posted by Colin Sanders on

  Monoi Oil has a great story to go with it.  It's the traditional Tahitian skincare product made by infusing coconut oil with gardenia petals. As such it is really good natural product with a genuine heritage and some real benefits.  It does present a  couple of challenges though.  For a start, you can only use it in formulations where coconut oil is a suitable ingredient, so that rules out things like shampoos.  And while consumers love the concept and the benefits of natural products, producers have to be clear headed about their drawbacks too.  Monoi oil isn't going to last as...

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