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Preserving Your Beauty & Personal Care Products
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(9 ratings)
80 students

Preserving Your Beauty & Personal Care Products

Preserving Natural Skincare & Conventional Personal Care.
Created byNikki Bayerman
Last updated 4/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • You will learn the different types of preservatives available to you in cosmetics and personal care products
  • You will learn to identify the various risk factors that necessitate the use of preservatives in your products
  • You will learn how to properly formulate preservative-free formulations, and how to use auxiliary chemicals to boost preservative efficacy.
  • How to use independent labs to verify that your product is well preserved (and ready for mass distribution)

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Course content

3 sections • 10 lectures • 1h 15m total length

  • Introduction: Let's Get Started!4:23

    Learn why to preserve cosmetic products, identify key risk factors, select the right preservative systems, and verify efficacy through challenge testing across shelf life.

  • Why Should You Use Preservatives?4:05

    Verify preservative manufacturer paperwork, including product info sheets and safety data sheets, to ensure broad-spectrum protection, proper usage, and testing, protecting product integrity.

  • Risk Factors6:59

    Identify six key risk factors that threaten contamination in beauty and personal care products—low quality ingredients, GMP, packaging, climate, use, and formulation—and learn how controlling them can reduce preservative needs.

  • Different Types of Preservatives7:40

    Explore preservative classes for cosmetics and personal care products, their pros and cons, and how blends achieve broad spectrum coverage.

Requirements

  • No formulations experience needed
  • No chemistry experience needed

Description

Ever wonder how natural cosmetic products sit on the shelves for months (even years) without growing mold or fungi. Or have you considered changing a controversial preservative currently in your cosmetic formulation. Or maybe you are simply formulating for the first time and need to make sure it can stand on its own without spoiling. Then congratulations...this course is for you.

Brought to you by Alchemist Express, a leading consulting firm and marketplace for the development of excellent personal care, cosmetics and other beauty products, this course reviews all the essentials from identifying your beauty brand niche, identifying and targeting your ideal customer base, creating your brand story to finally marketing across various online and offline platforms for maximum effectiveness.

In a nutshell, you should take this course if you....

  • Are starting, or have just started your beauty brand.

  • Looking to change out a preservative in your formulation…or looking to use a more natural one.

  • Are a cosmetic chemist or beauty industry professional looking to gain familiarity with cosmetic preservation.

  • Are formulating the next big thing and want to be sure it holds up to consumer use.

  • Want to take those first crucial steps toward entrepreneurship and being your own boss.

Each section of this course has worksheets, useful links and additional resources to assist you in this brand building journey. By the end of this course, you should have a very strong conceptual framework for beauty brand marketing success.

Who this course is for:

  • Brand Owners,
  • Formulators
  • Cosmetic Chemists
  • Influencers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Beauty Entrepreneurs

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