How to Make Your Own Mineral Makeup
A big part of making our own natural cosmetics is mineral makeup, but finding reliable and accurate information about it is hard to come by. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered at the School of Natural Skincare! It is such an exciting topic to delve into and an amazing...
9 Safety Tips You Need to Know to Make Cold Process Soaps
Making cold process soap is a great thing to do at home or in your cosmetics lab. There are so many benefits to making your own soaps and you can read more about that in our article, 6 benefits of making cold process soaps. However, before you get your oils, water and...
6 benefits of making cold process soaps
Making your own cold process soap is such a fun activity to do at home or in your lab set up. There are many things you need to know about before you get started and its important to follow the core safety advice too. Fortunately, we have an online course, Cold...
Men’s Versus Women’s Skincare – What’s the Difference?
When we think about skincare and treating different skin types, we typically think about dry, sensitive, oily and combination skin. And this is a great place to start, because no matter who you are or where you come from, these factors are all relevant. However, when...
Creating a Broad-spectrum Preservative System for Natural Skincare Products
Without a doubt the questions we get asked the most are about natural preservatives for cosmetics! There are several useful blog posts on our website that cover the basics: Do You Need to Use Preservatives in Homemade Natural Skincare Products? and 3 Natural...
How to turn a skincare recipe into a cosmetic formula
If you have been using a natural skincare recipe for a cosmetic product for a while and you like it, you might want to turn it into a cosmetic formula. Professional cosmetic formulas are written in percentages. Before we look at a cosmetic formula, let us look...
How to test and adjust the pH of natural skincare products (and why you should)
We get asked all the time about how to measure the pH of skincare products – what pH is, when you need to measure it and how to measure it. Here you’ll discover the answers to these questions, as well as why we measure it and how to adjust your pH testing equipment....
The different types of natural (non-foaming) cleansers you can formulate
These days many people want to avoid surfactant-based cleansers like face wash and foaming facial cleansers as they can be too harsh for the skin and strip it of its natural oils. In her book ‘Skincare: The No Nonsense Guide’, skincare guru Caroline Hirons is adamant...
Why are serums good for your skin (and what are their benefits)?
Before we answer that, there’s another question we encourage you to ask yourself and it's a very simple one: What is it you want most from your skincare? There are so many reasons people use skincare products, whether those products are off the shelf,...
How you can make a natural face serum…that actually works!
If you love cosmetics and skincare, you’ll know that facial serums are all the rage right now. Packed with high-end and exotic sounding ingredients, serums are usually the most expensive item in many people’s skin care routine. But what if we told you that you could...
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