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Lactic Acid is a common ingredient found in a wide range of cosmetic and personal care products, such as the increasingly popular chemical peel. While it is known for providing unparalleled benefits for the skin, there are some important safety requirements you should be aware of when using this ingredient. As a beauty brand owner, you must be aware of the cosmetic formulation guidelines and workplace health and safety (WHS) precautions for this commonly used ingredient so that you can protect everybody interacting with both this ingredient and any products containing it. Below, we detail what Lactic Acid is, and
Over the past few weeks, we have talked about your product, your packaging and labelling and although we spoke briefly about supply last month I would like to dwell a little deeper and what to expect. As previously mentioned, the last thing you want to do as a small brand is to finally get your break that you have been working so hard towards and have stock rejected, not be able to supply or not be compliant with their requirements. So let’s break this down and have a look, why would your stock get rejected when they ordered in the
Understanding the hair allows us to understand key ingredient to use to help support. Watch this cool video (from a white man with no curly hair haha) for a short understanding of WHAT MAKES CURLY HAIR CURLY. And why Curly hairs needs are different! Conditioning thick curly and frizzy hair can be quite challenging as you want to ensure you have ample power for comb-through but not too much for residue! Curly hair need extra TLC because as the video shows, natural oils find it hard to move down the hair. Choosing key ingredients that have an affinity to hair
Your skin surface lipids contain a mixture of those found in your lipid matrix (ceramides, cholesterol, fatty acids), as well as those found in the sebum (oil) produced from your sebaceous glands (oil glands). Sebum is mostly made up of triglycerides (30-60%), wax esters (20-30%), free fatty acids (10-30%), and squalene (10-20%). Squalene and wax esters, in particular, are unique to your sebum and are not found anywhere else in your body. Each play a slightly different role within your sebum: Squalene and wax esters create a protective barrier on the surface of your skin to seal in moisture and
What is allowed in the Cosmetic Industry? Examples: Phenoxyethanol is in Schedule 6 and cannot be used at more than 1% in a cosmetic. Bitter orange oil is in Schedule 5 and is considered a cosmetic when used in soaps or bath or shower gels that are washed off the skin, when used at 1.4% or less, or in other preparations when labelled with “application to the skin may increase sensitivity to sunlight”.
Ok you have your product sorted; you have your packaging on point; you have your supply chain sorted; and you have stock into Retail stores, well done!!! Now for the tricky part you have done all the hard work. But how do you get the product off the shelf into the consumers hands so that the Retailer needs to re-order, re-order and re-order? As the beauty market has become ever more crowded and competitive, just being carried by a major retailer is no longer a guarantee for success. Increasingly brands have to compete even within a retailer for attention and
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