Skincare Lab Practical~ Making Lotion!!
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Heyyyy Everybodyyyyyy~~~
Sooooo MST is finally over for all of us! Kudos for everyone yeahhhhh~~~
I guess everyone is enjoying their holidays right now..
I'm going to share with you all about making lotion!!
You know lotion is like a skincare product you apply on your body everyday, some more popular brands are like Nivea and Vaseline~
In this lab practical, we made our own simple lotion,
and we named our lotions afterwards hahaha:D
Phase A and B were needed to prepare~
Phase A was just mixing the ingredients together with magnetic stirrer
The ingredients are:
Cetostearyl alcohol- Emollient
Jojoba oil- Powerful moisturizer, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, hypoallergenic, non-comedogenic(as quoted from michellephan.com, wow this ingredient seems very powerful)
Span 120- Surfactant
Tween 80- Surfactant
BHT(Butylated Hydroxytoluene)- Anti-oxidant
Spin spin spin~
Phase B was mixing water and glycerine together with Carbopol Ultrez 20 with homogenizer
Carbopol Ultrez 20- Stabilizer
Glycerine- Humectant
Phase A was then mixed with Phase B slowly with homogenizer until homogenous phase was obtained.
Soooo our lotion is DONE!
We added some red colouring and fragrance and the end product is this!~
Pretty cute right!!
This is not the end of the lab practical yet..
We were needed to test the type of emulsion of this lotion, pH and its viscosity
First tested with Malachite green and Sudan 3
Green indicates that it is oil in water emulsion
Followed by water and oil test
Then the pH test!
Colourful~
So that was the end of our skincare practical! It was really fun no joke ^^
And we really like the texture of the lotion. It looks quite thick and viscous but when you apply it is very watery and spreads well on your skin. Furthermore, it's not tacky and feels smooth after applying!
This formula was created by our seniors for their FYP project if I'm not wrong so wow good job in creating this and to let us have the chance to create it during our practical!!
That will be the end of this post.. Looking forward to Xmas and New Year!
Enjoy yourself everyone!
HAVE FUN!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!
\^O^/
Enjoying my holiday now~
xoxo FeiFei<3
xoxo FeiFei<3
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