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Cosmetic Essentials Part 3 – Ingredients for Homemade Cosmetics

In the third and final part of a series of three essential parts in cosmetics, outline the basic ingredients used in the manufacture of cosmetics. It is important that you grasp these fundamentals as many if not all of these ingredients must be handled with extreme care.

There are some basic rules to follow when handling these ingredients. For example, one key rule to be followed is to ensure that you or the person to whom you are doing the cosmetic product does not have an allergic reaction to any of the ingredients. The best way to ensure you do not have an allergic reaction is to do a Pap test within your forearm, cover it with gauze or a Band-Aid, let on during the night and next day there are no signs of irritation or redness, can be considered safe to use. Of course, if you're doing cosmetic for someone else, all I can do is provide a clear label with the ingredients of cosmetics for the individual can decide whether it is safe for use.

Some rules are another key to ensuring that the cosmetics while your hands are clean and dry. There is nothing worse than getting ingredients high quality for the manufacture of cosmetics and to have it spoiled because of foreign material that may have in your hands. Other important ingredients are to store and cosmetics in a cool dry place, away from direct sunlight and to ensure that their containers mentioned in the second series also essential cosmetics are clean and dry before use. Finally and I think this is pretty obvious is that you never attempt to eat or drink from their cosmetic products.

The ingredients used to manufacture cosmetic products can be divided into several types. Of course the ingredients you need to use depends on the type of cosmetic product you are looking to produce. In general to produce any cosmetic product, you have to use several types of benefits for both the skin and the aroma you want. The types of ingredients you need to do at home cosmetic listed below.

Vegetable oils – These are liquid fats extracted from a variety of plants. Always use cold pressed oils such as heat makes many oils that change its structure. Examples of vegetable oils are almond oil, sunflower oil and avocado oil.

Macerated Oils – These are vegetable oils infused with fragrant flowers or herbs. Examples of oils macerated oils are calendula, rose and oils, carrot oils.

Essential Oils – These are concentrated aromatic essences distilled from some plants. Many of these plants also have medicinal properties. Examples are the plant types are chamomile oil, which has both healing and relaxing qualities especially for sensitive skin; Romero is good for hair care, lavender and has cleaning and healing properties.

Vegetable Fats / Butters – These are solid fats extracted directly from the tropical plants that are mostly used in soap bars, moisturisers and creams. Examples vegetable fats and butters are cocoa butter, shea butter, and mango butter.

Flower Waters / Distillates – These are also called hydrosols or hydrolats. In general, the byproduct of the distillation process to produce essential oils, but are now used more widely, and many are effects. Used for moisturisers, deodorants, facial tonic and also to cool on a hot day or in hot climates. Examples are hydrolats hydrosols or rose water orange flower water and lavender water.

Herbs / Flowers-They provide the active ingredients in cosmetics. They are used in skin products, products bath and tea infusions. Some examples are: rose petals are used for relaxing herbs for all skins, vanilla is used for perfume, and soapwart plant used as natural shampoo.

Clothes – These are the ingredients that are used mainly in cooking but also for Cosmetics decisions. Examples include oats used for washing and soothing the skin, sea salt used in bath salts, dental care and care the body and citrus peels are used to scrub the skin and perfumed oils.

Miscellaneous – These are various items that are difficult to classify are also useful for the manufacture of cosmetics. Examples are green clay that is used for facial masks, beeswax is used to thickening and emulsifying creams and ointments, and Glycerin, which is a product of saponification of vegetable oils that can be used for moisturizers and as a preservative natural.

So now we have reviewed all the equipment and ingredients needed for the manufacture of cosmetics, we are ready to begin to make toxic free natural and organic. At our next entries will start going through recipes that can be used for skin, face and hair, and products that you can do for your loved ones and their children.

About the Author

John Boyd has been passionate about health ever since his young daughter became ill when she was an infant. He has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and Masters of Business Administration in finance and international economics. For the last 12 years he has run a small IT consulting firm JTB Solutions Ltd. He has just recently started his blog connected to one of his new passions which is making his own cosmetics products. Follow his blog at http://www.naturalbeautyforyou.org

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