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Before you start creating your own products, it is good to know which basic aids for cosmetic production you need. This way you not only gain an overview of what equipment you need to add, but you will also find out what each cosmetic-making aid is used for and what its other applications are.
You do not need to worry that as a beginner you need a lot of new tools and aids. Very often it is enough to look around the kitchen or the workshop and you will find that you already have many of the cosmetic-making aids at home. Let us introduce the individual categories:
Every product you will manufacture must be blended from several raw materials, therefore bowls and containers are essential aids for cosmetic making. Glass bowls are ideal, as they are easy to clean and maintain. It is good if these cosmetic-making aids are heat-resistant, because you will often heat raw materials in a water bath or possibly in a microwave. If you want more professional equipment for cosmetic making, you can reach instead of bowls for laboratory glass beakers. They are easy to clean and resistant to heat and hydroxides.
Making soaps from hydroxides requires containers and cosmetic-making aids that are resistant to these chemicals. Among such materials, besides glass, are stainless steel and plastic. Other metal containers may corrode when in contact with hydroxide. At the same time, metals easily oxidize various sensitive compounds used in the production of facial cosmetics, in which case you should rather reach ideally for glass or possibly plastic.
Do not forget a larger pot for a water bath or for cooling products.
When scooping raw materials, it is always good to have several spoons intended only for cosmetic making available. Spoons and measuring spoons for cosmetic making should be separated from other cutlery. Always keep these cosmetic-making aids at hand; this way you will avoid contamination of raw materials, because you will have enough scoops for each raw material separately.
Again, metal spoons can cause oxidation of some raw materials. Among more professional cosmetic-making aids are glass stirring rods. When scooping small amounts of raw materials, you will appreciate plastic or metal spatulas.
For dosing small volumes of liquids, you will use plastic plastic pipettes, which will allow you to add precise amounts of liquid raw materials, especially when making cosmetics in smaller batches. Plastic pipettes belong among the low-cost cosmetic-making aids and for normal home production they can be used repeatedly after thorough cleaning and disinfection.
Among the cosmetic-making aids that you will also appreciate if you make only small amounts of products are funnels. They can also be found in very small sizes suitable for filling small dropper bottles and other vials.
You most likely already have the mentioned cosmetic-making aids in your kitchen. Look especially for silicone scrapers, which will allow you to easily transfer your creams or soaps from bowls into jars and molds. Sieves are suitable not only for sifting herbs or loose raw materials when making fizzy bath bombs, but they will also enable you to evenly distribute powdered colorants, such as micas, when making soap.
When preparing homemade cosmetic products, you almost always work with raw materials or colorants, therefore these cosmetic-making aids will come in handy. Gloves will at the same time protect your hands when working with hydroxide; in that case it is appropriate to use classic disposable latex gloves. Also keep at hand one pair of thicker gloves for handling the water bath and hot containers.
When making soap from hydroxide, do not forget protective goggles. If you handle powdered raw materials that are easily released into the air, put on a mask, ideally a respirator. The cosmetic-making aids mentioned will help protect your airways.
Before preparing any product, it is necessary to thoroughly clean and disinfect all surfaces, containers, packaging and tools that will come into contact with raw materials. In doing so, you will reduce contamination of your products and they will last longer. Handy cosmetic-making aids are therefore also paper towels and spray bottles for disinfectant.
As a disinfectant, you can use 70% food-grade ethanol or 99% isopropyl alcohol, or special products intended for surface disinfection (ideally intended for the food industry). Do not forget to rinse all cosmetic-making aids in distilled water after disinfection or proceed according to the instructions of the disinfectant manufacturer.
Before you start using any product, it is always appropriate to verify its pH. At home, this can easily be done using pH indicator strips. These cosmetic-making aids change color according to the current pH of the product, and you read the pH value from the attached color scale.
For more advanced users, there is the option to obtain a pH meter. However, this is already a more expensive cosmetic-making aid that also requires more complex operation and calibration.
Certain appliances or devices are also essential in cosmetic production and will make it easier to prepare some products. Find out which cosmetic-making aids will make working with soaps or producing facial creams easier for you.
Thermometers, whether classic or infrared, are handy cosmetic-making aids that allow you to monitor the progress of your product manufacture. You can use classic probe thermometers used in the food industry. However, do not forget to disinfect them before use so that they do not contaminate your product. For this reason, infrared non-contact thermometers have the advantage of immediately telling you the temperature of your product, but their disadvantage is the higher price.
A stick blender belongs unequivocally among the aids essential for soap making. Without pre-mixing the fats and hydroxide mass, it is almost impossible to reach trace without very long manual stirring. Keep in mind that the blender should be made of plastic or stainless steel so that the hydroxide does not damage it. Assign one blender only for soaps and cosmetics and do not use it for cooking.
A hand whisk or a mixer with two beaters is one of the cosmetic-making aids that will allow you to create fluffy whipped butters or to mix larger amounts of creams. If you only produce small batches of emulsions or creams, use battery-powered milk frothers, which will ease and speed up the process of forming an emulsion; for larger batches, use stick blenders.
Since almost everything in cosmetics is measured in grams, scales are a necessity. If you will not produce very large batches of products, i.e. by the kilogram, reach for small or pocket scales that weigh to at least one decimal place. These cosmetic-making aids will allow you, thanks to one or ideally two decimal places (when weighing in grams), to add raw materials with high accuracy even in small batches.
An integral part of soap making, whether using melt-and-pour bases or hydroxides, are soap molds. Silicone molds for soap making are cosmetic-making aids available in various shapes and sizes, so you can use them to create different designs. Thanks to the flexibility of silicone, finished, hardened products can be easily removed from them.
You can use silicone molds for soap making not only for soaps, but also for preparing other types of cosmetics. These versatile cosmetic-making aids are suitable, for example, if you are producing solid shampoos; silicone molds also serve for making solid conditioners or solid body balms.
Silicone molds for soap and cosmetic making are not particularly suitable for making fizzy bath bombs because of their plasticity and flexibility. Therefore, if you are interested in bath fizzies, slightly different cosmetic-making aids are used for their preparation, namely rigid plastic molds for fizzy bath bombs, which may also be made of metal. Most often these are molds consisting of two parts, which, when filled and joined together, form a fizzy bath bomb.
Your finished product needs to be stored somewhere. That is exactly what packaging for cosmetics is for. You can choose from a wide range of plastic, metal or glass packaging in various sizes. Again, do not forget that metal packaging for cosmetics can cause oxidation of some less stable components of the product (if the metal is not covered with a protective layer). Plastic packaging, in turn, can absorb some organic substances. The color that these cosmetic-making aids have also plays a role. Dark and opaque cosmetic containers, for example from amber glass, protect active ingredients from sunlight more effectively than transparent packaging.
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