have you ever checked what could happen to your butters and balms if the accidentally melt and re-solidify? http://skinchakra.eu/blog/archives/474-How-to-stability-test-balmd-and-butters.html

I think you may find this video interesting. It's about hygienic procedure in a food manufacturing company. The first 3:30 minutes are relevant for cosmetic manufacturing as well. There are different detectors and barriers to check whether the hands, boots, aprons and instruments are clean and disinfected before the workers can eneter manufacturing/filling zones. Can you imagine that still despite all these procedures some cases of contamination may occur? You don't need any automatic and high-tech detector in your small lab but you can adapt a certain routine and workflow in your GMP to avoid possible contamination routes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q58SWnAHRw

this is a simple but hilarious GMP video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fg143U95zg

It seems as if the mainstream is re-inventing "natural ingredients". This is anyway an interesting short article about the tea tree oil from the mainstream viewpoint:
http://knowledge.ulprospector.com/5597/tea-tree-oil-natural-anti-acne-alternative/

Today's cosmeceuticals talk is about tocopherols:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNrawwlg59p/?taken-by=skinchakra

Check this post on our blog about stability of vitamin E with many useful links:
http://skinchakra.eu/blog/archives/428-Thermal-stability-of-Tocopherol.html

no microbeads anymore for Canada:
http://www2.specialchem.com/optiext/optiextension.dll?ID=CFoCt31i6oiYIu1LN%2B2DGdFcqLxbwlkbdPnNm7Cp3KnulTiKZzb1DJSvlk9HJRM3Rx2HHkvJ7HN38e_OsisXbzNT5%2BUDCJ

20% discount on our newly arrived Amazonian oil, pequi fruit oil till Monday

Macadamia oil rich in oleic and palmitoleic acid, gamma tocopherol and beta-sitosterol. An excellent hair and skin care ingredient

Celebrating our very first customer in Poland

not skincare related but a very interesting article about soy isoflavones and the controversy about their impact on breast cancer:
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/dietary-factors/phytochemicals/soy-isoflavones

Today's cosmeceuticals on Tuesday is about lycopene, a non-provitamin A carotenoid
https://www.instagram.com/p/BN9g1HxgYlo/?taken-by=skinchakra

more about lycopene:
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/dietary-factors/phytochemicals/carotenoids

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11192026

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0939641108000398

not cosmetic related, but an example of "mind your claims". Although citric acid is not listed as a preservative in cosmetics, it's pH-regulating and chelating properties boost preservative performance. In food however, citric acid is considered as preservative:
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Regulation/Nestle-USA-to-fight-lawsuit-over-citric-acid-in-Lean-Cuisine

20% discount for our organic apricot kernel oil:https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Plant-oils-butters-and-waxes/Apricot-kernel-oil-organic-and-cold-pressed.html

organic plum seed oil available from next week on our online shop

Did you know that you can use your magnetic stirrer to make oleogels? The process is not much faster than the manual process but it spares you the whole muscle workout

New shipping prices and this is a permanent policy and not just a weekend special. Just to thank you for your ever increasing orders. Have a merry Christmas

we've not yet resumed our shipment but you can go ahead and order the newly arrived organic plum seed oil. We'll restart shipping the next week:

https://shop.skinchakra.eu/en/Cosmetic-Lab/Plant-oils-butters-and-waxes/Plum-seed-oil-organic-virgin.html