Mar 17, 2010 | Article
By Nancy Jeffries
A wide selection of skin care products feature new ingredients, and philosophies, to attract today's consumer. Fiscal constraints aside, skin care offers mass choices with straightforward, practical...
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Jan 1, 2008 | Article
By Nick Morante
Whether we refer to a lipstick, lip gloss, lip liner or even a lip pencil, there are ingredients that can be added to these products for which claims can be made to enhance the functionality and...
Aug 3, 2007 | Article
Almost any ingredient used in the cosmetics industry today can be found to have something hazardous about it. You will find many websites on the Internet listing all the "dangerous" chemicals used...
Jun 22, 2007 | Article
Summer is here and it's time to take care of your skin. Step one is to look for any product with and SPF value of 15 or greater. This is the minimum SPF that a person should need to get some initial...
May 21, 2007 | Article
Bentonite is an absorbent aluminum polysilicate, a generally impure clay consisting mostly of smectite minerals such as montmorillonite with traces of other metals...
Apr 23, 2007 | Article
By Barbara Olioso
After looking at the market trend in the natural field I am going to talk about how to translate the natural concept in technical terms from the purest to the modern definitions, what it means to...
Mar 8, 2007 | Article
I do other things besides write articles for SpecialChem. I do have regular clients that I formulate custom cosmetics for. As an experienced formulator, I must be very aware of the fact that the...
Mar 2, 2007 | Article
A few years ago, when I was still a lab manager at Estée Lauder, some of my job responsibilities were to evaluate the formulations of some of the brands that Estee Lauder had acquired when it went...
Mar 1, 2007 | Article
I composed this article to show that there are differences in the characteristics between eyeshadows and blushers and the ingredients used in their formulation. Powder cheek colors, or Blushers as...
Feb 22, 2007 | Article
The object of this article is to separate and differentiate the characteristics between eyeshadows and blushers and their methods of formulation. Pressed powder eyeshadows are another simple product...