wanna refresh your chemistry knowledge? This documentary has not much to do with "dry chemistry" but rather with the history of some of the most amazing discoveries in chemistry, and OMG, the instruments they've been using. I'm in love with Lavoisier's scales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_iECwDp9w

airless bottle is no substitute for an effective preservative system

wanna refresh your understanding of pH?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS67vS10O5Y&index=30&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPHzzYuWy6fYEaX9mQQ8oGr

when even "phenoxyethanol" fails:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/liz-earle-cleanse-and-polish-hot-cloth-cleanser-recall_uk_58206149e4b020461a1ceeef

Todays Instagram feed is about tannins:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMjVSsvA-en/?taken-by=skinchakra

more infos about specific tannins:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf970975b

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814612016664

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814615000588

https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=795320928353955;res=IELHSS

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fsn3.264/full

can somebody figure out what these ingredients are doing in a product line claiming to be chemicals and toxin-free?

when Dr. Google becomes your reference: Just stumbled upon this blog about squalene which is, apparently written by a bunch of Drs. They talk about the unsaturated fatty acids in squalene. Can somebody help us find the unsaturated fatty acids in squalene structure (copied on top of the screen shot)

celebrating our very first customer in Australia

20% discount on our newly arrived myrica wax: https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Cosmetic-ingredients-A-Z/Myrica-fruit-wax.html

another interesting documentary about chemistry. Even if you skipped chemistry hours , you'll love thsi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCPxsxtw8Xs

this is an amazing documentary about oud, one of the most exquisite inscence and perfumery ingredients. The first 5 minutes might be weird and boring to you but hold on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv69pYSm2oo

Today's cosmeceutical talk is about apigenin, a flavonoid present in celery and chamomile:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BM0stE4Aiy7/?taken-by=skinchakra

No weekend special this weekend. Just sharing this gorgeous sunrise with you

most of you ask about the persistence of bubbles in your products. Even our products are created with bubbles. The higher the viscosity (shear stress to be exact) the more persistent the bubbles.

Today's cosmeceutical talk is about Hesperidin:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNHe1-9Azsi/?taken-by=skinchakra

and here some more links:
http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n2/abs/1601547a.html

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ptr.1074/abstract

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014827X01011119

http://www.skintherapyletter.com/2000/5.4/2.html

http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9284/2/2/48/htm

isn't that crazy? No evidence of aloe in tens of commercial aloe products:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-22/no-evidence-of-aloe-vera-found-in-the-aloe-vera-at-wal-mart-cvs

some suppliers have the habit of selling hydrogenated oils as fanciful plant waxes. http://skinchakra.eu/blog/archives/410-The-confusing-world-of-natural-waxes-in-cosmetics-Part-I.html

more than 20% discount on our organic sweet almond oil for this weekend: https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Plant-oils-butters-and-waxes/Organic-sweet-almond-oil.html

If you've purchased an unpreserved and already contaminated hydrosol, you can not simply reverse the contamination by adding a preservative to your product.