There’s been an increasing movement of people returning to a basic, simple, and natural skincare routine in recent years. Thus, making pure and simple homemade skin and hair products that gently clean and don’t set off allergies, as well as healing fractions by using pure and natural raw ingredients, is getting more and more popular.
When it comes to skincare, nothing can beat pure, natural, and organic raw skincare ingredients—cold-pressed plant oil, freshly distilled flower water, an exotic botanical butter, a high-performance plant extract, or an exquisitely fragrant essential oil—as they can be retained in their natural state, unprocessed, with all their benefits and therapeutic properties, before being processed or used in manufacturing. Replacing synthetic chemicals with natural ingredients in cosmetics or personal care products is growing dramatically. People understand and learn that using harsh synthetic ingredients in the formulation or overusing them will pull the oil out of the skin, which will damage ceramide products as well as the skin barrier function. Less is more! Using simple, quality, pure, and natural ingredients either in the homemade formulation or directly on the skin truly benefits the skin, sometimes even more so than those by large, commercial beauty brands. Safe, affordable, and manageable. They are mild and biodegradable, exhibiting low toxicity.
We have sourced from all across the world for the finest plant-based natural cosmetic ingredients either for personal care formulating or manufacturing natural luxurious skincare products for your client, covering everything from foundation ingredients to natural preservatives, including butter, oils, botanical extracts, natural additives, natural preservatives, antioxidants, and other safe cosmetic ingredient additions to your creation. Each ingredient has a function in the formulation.
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Foundation Ingredients
Foundation ingredients form the basis of your products, providing nourishing, hydrating, and moisturizing properties. They make up the majority of all skin and hair care products, from balms, butter, clays, and hydrosols to lotions, creams, toners, and masks, which are based on a combination of oil, butter, water, hydrosols, clays, and wax.
The foundation ingredients provide a supply mechanism for active and functional ingredients. They are the main components of almost all skin and hair care products. Their formulation will give the product an overall skin feel and texture, as well as act as the carrier for high-performance ingredients.
Most of the foundation ingredients are not refined because many therapeutic properties have been removed to avoid unpleasant smells and because they are easy to mix in formulations. Aroma Origins promotes raw beauty by using it as naturally as possible on the skin. Thus, we offer many unrefined raw materials instead of selling refined ingredients.
Active Botanicals
Active botanicals are water extracts, oil extracts, and dried herbs that are added to formulations to enhance the biological properties of the product, providing nourishment and healing benefits. These active ingredients can be used in the formulation directly as a powder or in the form of an extract that brings water-soluble and oil-soluble components from the plant to the formulation.
Functional Ingredients
The majority of skincare ingredients are termed functional ingredients, which means they have the distinguished task of packaging active chemicals and spreading them on your face. Functional components include preservatives, water, thickeners, pH adjusters, delivery methods, emollients, and surfactants. Consider them the active components’ support systems!
Plant-Based Fragrance Oils
Essential oils are volatile compounds, characterized by a strong odor, that have been used for centuries for wellness and cosmetic purposes due to their wide range of therapeutic and aromatic properties such as bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, anti-parasitical and insecticidal, analgesic, sedative, anti-inflammatory, and local anesthetic effects. Those biological activities presented by essential oils are important in cosmetology as they can help to relieve many skin conditions through anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties among others and to protect the skin against oxidative damage and aging processes through anti-oxidative properties.
Some essential oils present components known as sensitizers and we recommend that you visit our Essential Oil Dermal Limits Guide to know more about Dermal limits
Antioxidants
Antioxidants are ingredients that are added to a product either to protect the product from oxidative reactions, help maintain its physical characteristics and functions during the product’s shelf life, or provide benefits for the skin. Exposure to oxygen and sunlight is the main factor in cosmetic oxidation; lipids, especially unsaturated fats, are the ingredients most affected by the oxidation process. Adding an antioxidant to the formula will prevent the oxidation, or ratification, of the product, which can, for instance, change the product’s color and smell.
pH Modifiers
pH modifiers are ingredients that are added to adjust the pH of a cosmetic product in the final steps of the formulation process.
Natural Preservatives
Natural preservatives are ingredients that are added to a product to prevent or retard microbial growth, avoiding product damage and helping it to remain safe for the customer and perform as intended during its shelf life.
Cosmetic Additives
In skincare formulation, there are some non-natural ingredients we highly favor in our products because they are proven safe, highly effective, and work well alongside natural ingredients with not many side effects if used properly. They are also naturally found in cells, responsible for over 30 cellular functions, and non-toxic to the environment. ?????
