weekend special: introductory discount on our brand new gum blend: https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Cosmetic-ingredients-A-Z/Solagum-AX.html

Did you know that allantoin increases moisture retention of the skin, improves elasticity and helps in barrier repair and wound healing inaddition to all its anti-inflammatory properties?

Formulation tip with sucrose stearate: let sucrose stearate swell in water phase before you add other ingredients

When working with a pH-meter never dry the tip of your pH-meter electrode (do not rub your tissue at the tip of the electrode too firmly). This will prolong the electrode reaction time

20% weekend discount on our popular gel-to-milk emulsifier Dermofeel G5O: https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Emulsifiers/Dermofeel-G-5-O.html

this is not quite delicious but a very interesting post about a pigment collection at Harvard university: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3058058/the-harvard-vault-that-protects-the-worlds-rarest-colors

who is young enough 😉 to remember these lipsticks of the 80s? http://www.happi.com/contents/view_blog/2016-07-25/-in-the-mood-112631/

an online cosmetic museum: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/health-hygiene-and-beauty

colourful centrifuge samples. Keep an eye on our blog, we're going to share the recipes soon

Celebrating our very first customer in Finland

Plantasens HE20 is an excellent O/W emulsifier if you want to work with high concentrations of oil phase. Here a facial mask with 30% oil phase

Happy weekend. Time for another attractive weekend discount: https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Cosmetic-ingredients-A-Z/Pentylene-glycol-plant-based.html

Celebrating our first customer in NZ. We've now customers in 20 countries of the world

who is not in love with curcuma? http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ptr.5640/abstract?campaign=woletoc

whether you like Kimchi or not, you'll love this song: http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/lettuce-turnip-beets-electro-swing-ode-kimchi.html

formulation tip for working with Plantasens HE20

Your water phase (plantasens dispersed in water phase) should be as smooth as the above photo before adding the oil phase. If they are white particcles in the water phase, plantasens is not completely melted and dispersed

isn't that a lovely texture? Emulsion with Plantasens HE20

time for our weekend discount: https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Preservatives/Dermosoft-GMCY.html