CeraVe’s Moisturizing Cream
This drugstore staple is a favourite of many, featuring hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and a reasonable price tag! Join me and my patrons as we figure out how it works and if we might be able to make something similar at home.
Easy Niacinamide Serums for Beginners
Niacinamide—also known as Vitamin B3—is a potent, effective, and popular active ingredient with amazing brightening and barrier-boosting skincare benefits. But, it can be a bit intimidating to work with. So, if you’ve been wanting to start formulating with niacinamide...
Gentle Low-Lather Face Cleanser
If you’re looking for an ultra-gentle, super inexpensive facial cleanser for any skin type—this is it! You can make a kilo of this cleanser for about $10USD, and all of the ingredients are super versatile, inexpensive, and easy to get 😄 Want to watch this...
Making clear (!) lip balm
After many experiments (and flops), I finally made clear, solid lip balm! Here's how 😄
La Prairie’s Pure Gold Radiance Cream
Why is this cream nearly $1200CAD for 50mL (1.69fl oz)? 🤔 Let's dig into the ingredient list to find out—and to find out if it's worth it!
Biossance’s Squalane + Probiotic Gel Moisturizer
What makes this highly-rated moisturizer tick? And can we make something similar at home? Join me and my patrons as we dive into the ingredient list for Biossance's Squalane + Probiotic Gel Moisturizer to find out!
Hyaluronic Acid Serum: 3 vs. 5 vs. 8 ingredients
In this post I'm going to teach you how to make three different hyaluronic acid serums; one with 3 ingredients, one with 5, and one with 8. Each formulation builds on the one before it so you can see how to modify and expand on (or, if done in reverse, simplify!) a...
Brightening hyaluronic acid serum
Let's make a brightening hyaluronic acid serum! This pairs with my Hyaluronic Acid Serum: 3 vs. 5 vs. 8 ingredients post & video.
Winter Solstice Face Cream Bee Better
Behind the scenes of working on a #BeeBetter upgrade to my 2016 Winter Solstice Face Cream. I share five different in-progress variations & my formulation thinking that took me from one variation to the next (+ the formulations themselves).
Glossier’s Future Dew
I'm so fascinated by this product—part serum, part emulsion, part makeup! Let's dig into how it works and find out if we can create something similar at home.
Hot Chocolate Lip Butter
We're continuing our Hot Chocolate holiday making theme with some tubes of the sort of lip butter I need in the winter. It's rich, creamy, and most importantly, long-wearing. This stuff sticks around for hours—an absolute must when it's cold, dry, and generally bleh...
Easy 2% Salicylic Acid Solution
In today's formulation we're harnessing the skincare powerhouse that is salicylic acid with a simple formulation featuring a low-but-effective concentration of our star ingredient. Salicylic acid is commonly used in products for blemish-prone skin and has all kinds of...
Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base
Let's take a look at the ingredients used in the Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base to see if we can figure out why it's so popular—and if we might be able to make something similar at home 🤔
DIY Moisturizing Lip Oil: 3 Ways
I've been having a ton of fun making lip oil formulations this year, and today I'm finally sharing three of my favourite formulations starring a new-to-me ingredient that I'm low-key obsessed with. These are super easy to stir up (no heating required!) and are a...
Easy DIY Vitamin C Suspension (Just 3 ingredients!)
This formulation is a super simple, beginner-friendly vitamin C suspension. You don't have to worry about oxidization or pH, you'll only need three ingredients, and the finished product will help fade hyperpigmentation, increase collagen production, boost healing, and...
Easy DIY Cleansing Balm: 3 Ways
Cleansing balms are a fabulous way to cleanse the skin (they're especially great for removing long-wearing makeup!), and they're really easy to make. In this post I'll teach you how to make three different simple cleansing balm formulations. Each uses just three or...
3 Simple Cleansing Balms with polysorbate 80
Three super-duper simple cleansing balm formulations that use liquid polysorbate 80 for the rinse-off ingredient. You could definitely experiment with using different liquid anhydrous rinse-off ingredients as an alternative, too!
5% Lactic Acid + Hyaluronic Acid Exfoliating Serum
Reveal even, smoother, glowing skin with this 5% Lactic Acid + Hyaluronic Acid Exfoliating Serum formulation. Gentle AHA lactic acid offers mild chemical exfoliation, backed up with a blend of skin-soothing and hydrating actives to reduce inflammation potential and...
Even more details for my 5% lactic acid formulation
This patron exclusive bonus video includes a more in-depth overview of the formulation considerations that come up when working with lactic acid (and other AHAs) + a really in-depth walk through of adjusting the pH 😊
Extra Creamy Green Clay Cleansing Balm
This Extra Creamy Green Clay Cleansing Balm is a Bee Better version of 2017's Forest Cleansing Balm. That formula was one of the first anhydrous formulas I made with fatty thickeners and I remember being absolutely blown away by its rich, creamy, slippy consistency...
Beginner-Friendly Salicylic Acid + Squalane Serum
If you've been wanting to formulate with salicylic acid but haven't been sure where to start; start here 😄 This five-ingredient Beginner-Friendly Salicylic Acid + Squalane Serum doesn't contain any water, so you don't have to worry about pH, making it super...
Ultra-Light Summer Face Cream
If you've been looking for a lightweight summer facial moisturizer with a gorgeous, powdery, expensive-feeling finish, you can stop looking. This is it! I'm currently obsessed with this cream—I can't get over how lightweight and fancy it feels. It smells softly of...
Brighten & Boost Facial Serum
This cold-processed face serum does a whole lot of awesome things: it hydrates, brightens, reduces fine lines, evens out skin tone, boosts barrier function, soothes, softens, and might also know exactly which mango in that display at the grocery store will taste the...
Passionfruit Pressed Oil Serum
This four ingredient Passionfruit Pressed Oil Serum was formulated to let all the ingredients shine brightly. Made from three luxurious Brazilian ingredients and rounded out with a wonderful skin-loving antioxidant, this pressed oil serum can also be used as a...
