What a busy day for the students! We started the day with a session on colours and had fun striping our arms with various shades of micas, oxides, ultramarines and lakes. The colours and skin feel were compared and Nickie did a great job of testing whether the colours were water or oil soluble.
All went well until Sally pulled a horrible trick of mixing blue ultramarine with water and citric acid...poooooooey!
OK, so now everyone understood the suitability of the colours in different cosmetic products, we set about using some of those colours and mixing up a variety of bath fizz.
From fizz to scrubs and the students made a stunning selection of salts and
The afternoon was a rather more sober affair and we covered - at length - how to create the most flexible safety assessments covering a range of cosmetic products. We compiled a virtual PIF, analysed MSDS, discussed the contents of a GMP and generally felt confident and almost happy that the whole subject of product certification wasn't nearly as bad as originally thought!
The day ended on a high as we unpopped the bath fizz from the moulds....and don't they look fantastic!
More tomorrow!
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