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Skincare Formulator Starter Kit - Essential Tools & Ingredients
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items Here is my list of essential tools & ingredients required for making your first cosmetic formulations! With these tools & ingredients, you can create your own moisturizer, toner, serum, or even body butter! I am keeping this list pretty simpl...
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Tools
All the tools you need to create a beginner formula!
4 piece 500ml beakers - I use this size often for small batches!
4pcs 500ml Thick Glass Griffin Beakers
Glass stirring rods for your experiments!
Glass Stirring Rod 12" Both Ends Round 8pcs
Spoons and utensils for scooping up butters and powders
22-Piece Stainless Steel Lab Spatula Set
You will use these for everyyyything in your cosmetic formulation projects! Don't skip these!
3ML Dropper Pipettes - 100 PCS
Variety of beaker sizes for every phase of the formulation journey.
Karter Scientific 3.3 Boro Griffin Beaker Set
Absolutely required for precise measurement and consistent results. Excellent beginner scale
Digital Gram Scale .01 Gram Accuracy
If you don't want to use your stove, this burner works perfectly for formulations. Never use beakers on this directly! Always use a double boiler method (beaker sits in a container of water on top of the burner).
Electric Burner 1000W Cast Iron Hot Plate
This is for using on your hot plate as your double boiler.
6 PCS 1/6 Size 2.5 Inch Deep Steam Pan
Ingredients
These are some effective and nourishing ingredients for making a simple, beginner level moisturizer formula.
Reliable, consistent, natural emulsifier. This emulsifier is good for beginners, and has a nice sensory profile.
Olivem 1000 MB | Cetearyl Olivate Emulsifying Ingredient | Lotioncrafter
This is used both for thickening and stabilization.
Xanthan Gum Soft | High Viscosity Cosmetic Thickener | Lotioncrafter
Glycerin is our humectant (pulls water into the skin), and we're also using it to create a slurry with our xanthan gum so that it dissolves easier into our water phase.
Vegetable Glycerin | Humectant & Emollient for Cosmetics | Lotioncrafter
Can't go wrong with shea butter! This will add richness and emollience (softening) to your formulas.
Shea Butter, Refined | Lotioncrafter
Caprylic capric triglycerides is the same thing as MCT oil and it adds emollience while reducing greasy-feel.
Caprylic Capric Triglycerides | Lotioncrafter
High oleic sunflower oil is a low cost, stable, non comedogenic, light weight oil that is well tolerated by most people.
Sunflower Oil, High Oleic | Lotioncrafter
Vitamin E is an essential ingredient for keeping your formulations fresh & preventing oxidation.
Mixed Tocopherols T50 | Vitamin E Formula Antioxidant | Lotioncrafter
This is a preservative and it's *required*! You cannot make a water-containing cosmetic product without a preservative. ***This is not an eco-cert preservative*** - my reasoning behind this choice is simply because most eco-cert preservatives are act...
Liquid Cosmetic Preservative | Lotioncrafter
Low molecular weight hyaluronic acid offers less thickening of your formulation and deeper penetration into the skin.
Hyaluronic Acid LMW (0.8 - 1.0 MDa) | Lotioncrafter
Lavender hydrosol will give your product a gentle lavender scent without the harshness of essential oils.
Lavender Hydrosol | Lotioncrafter