School of Natural Skincare

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0.1: Introduction to Formulating

0.2 Creating High Performance Serums

1.1 Types of Products

1.2 Introduction to Formulating Facial, Lip and Eye Serums

1.3 Skin Anatomy and Physiology

1.4 Further reading: Skin Anatomy and Physiology

2.1 Categorizing Ingredients

2.2 Supplier List

2.3 Aesthetic Ingredients

Further reading: Olivem 100

2.4 Functional Ingredients

2.5 New Plant Oils

Further reading

2.6 Composition of oils

Further reading: Essential Fatty Acids in Cosmetics

2.7 High Performance Ingredients

Further reading

2.8 Essential Oils

2.9 Natural Solubilizers

2.10 Researching Ingredients

3.1 Step-by-step Formulation Process

3.2 Introduction to Formulating Innovative Anhydrous Serums

3.3 High Performance Anhydrous Serums

3.4 Lip Serum with Sunflower Polyglyceride

3.5 Formulationg oily gels or gelees with Sucragel

3.6 Directions for making anhydrous serums

3.7 Directions: How to create oily gels with Sucragel

Module 3: Assignments

4.1 Introduction into Formulating Gel Serums

4.2 Formulating High Performance Gel Based Serums

4.3 Direction for making gel based serums

4.4 Testing and Adjusting pH

Module 4: Assignments

5.1 Introduction to Formulating Emulsion Based Serums

5.2 Formulating with plant based emulsifiers

5.3 The 3 Phases of Emulsion Based Serums

5.4 Emulsion based serum with Xyliance

5.5 Emulsion based serum with ECOMulse / Glyceryl stearate SE

5.6 Emulsion based serum with Olivem 1000

5.7 Directions for making emulsion based serums that are heated

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5.8: Formulating with cold process emulsifiers (Sucragel)

Formulation Example: Emulsion Serum with Sucragel

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Module 5: Assignments

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Assignments

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Assignment 1: Anhydrous Serum

Assignment 2: Gel Serum

Assignment 3: Emulsion Serum

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