Can I Start My Own Beauty Company?
The beauty industry is one in which you can find success whether you are a large brand or conglomerate that owns many brands, or just a simple person who has a vision and wants to make it a reality. Starting your own beauty brand isn’t just a pipe dream, thousands of people make the first step every day by ordering the necessary base ingredients from a company who sells cosmetic raw ingredients—we are proud to say we have ourselves helped many budding brand owners with their projects. Many successful beauty brands started with a simple question of asking how to make your own makeup.
A quick search yields many results that prove the truth behind this statement that you can start your own makeup brand. Megan Cox launched Amalie while being a full-time student at MIT and found near overnight success with the launch of her store. In our post about what to consider when starting your own beauty brand, we stressed that many successful small brands find their niche by the entrepreneur being acutely aware of some gap in the market.
For Megan Cox, she required a product that helped promote growth in person’s eyelashes—something she herself wished she had after having her natural lashes damaged beyond repair from extensions. Thus, her product and demographic were born.
The lesson here is that anyone can start their own beauty company and begin making cosmetic products. All you require is a plan and the assistance of a professional cosmetic manufacturer, which is where we come in!
How to Make Your Own Makeup: Phoenix Chemical’s Hydrating Makeup
Phoenix Chemical’s formularies are a great starting point for our ambitious clients who can’t wait to get their hands on our products and get acquainted with the process to make your own makeup. Our formularies provide an easy to understand, easy to follow procedure for making a variety of products that truly bring out the best of our proprietary products.
Today, we’ll be looking at our Silky Smooth Hydrating Makeup and what Phoenix Chemical’s products bring to the table in this procedure. Be sure to view the link to see all of the ingredients involved!
The steps:
- Combine Phase A with mixing and begin heating to 70°-75°C.
- Combine Phase B and add this blend to the water phase, mixing until gums have swelled.
- Premix and pulverize Phase C, then add Phase C to Phase A/B.
- Homogenize batch until Phase A/B/C is uniform.
- Maintain temperature.
- In a separate vessel, combine Phase D and heat to 70°-75°C.
- When the temperature of the water phase (A/B/C) is the same as the temperature of the oil phase (D), add Phase D into Phase A/B/C under homogenization.
- Homogenize for 15 minutes or until batch is uniform throughout and all pigments are dispersed.
- Switch to side sweep agitation. Begin to cool the batch to 45°-50°C. At 45°-50°C add Phase E and continue to mix using side sweep.
- Continue mixing and cooling the batch to room temperature.
Our proprietary ingredients:
- Phoenoxol® BD-10P
- Pelemol® GMLA
- Pelemol® D5R-V
- Pelemol® P-810
- Pelemol® P-1263
- Pelemol® DISM
- Pelemol® 899
As you can see, all but one of these ingredients are part of our Pelemol® line of products. While all of the ingredients are important, here are a few that are critical to how this product achieves its intended effect.
When making your own cosmetics, its key to understand what ingredients are stock and which ones truly stand out to deliver performance typical of their category (say, emulsifiers) but also confer additional benefits.
Our proprietary ingredients do just that, and are a significant reason why we put our best foot forward when developing them!
Phoenoxol® BD-10p – is a highly emollient product that effectively reduces greasiness of mixtures it is added to. Naturally, for creating your own makeup, this is an incredibly important function as what separates many “good” makeup products from bad ones are not just how they look but also how they feel. If you’re going to wear it all day, it should feel good.
Pelemol® GMLA – is a 100% vegetable derived emulsifier and conditioning agent that comes from our Green Chemistry collection—our answer to those who would like to make products that are both naturally derived and sustainable. Emulsifiers help two immiscible liquids (liquids that want to separate), stay together and form a cohesive bond. A classic example is water and oil which do not mix. An emulsifier can make the two mix together. Emulsifiers are a crucial category of ingredients in cosmetic chemistry.
Pelemol® DISM – While the other ingredients play important roles in stabilizing the mixture and creating the bulk of the product, Pelemol® DISM is what puts the silky in our Silky Smooth Hydrating Makeup! DISM is an emollient which is a staple ingredient in moisturizers—it’s not to be confused with a moisturizer itself. Emollients create fatty layers over rough surfaces to fill in areas that have cracked or flaked. This allows moisture to be trapped, helping moisturizers retain their hydrating effects like a seal.
DISM performs this function for our Silky Smooth Hydrating Makeup through our lightweight formulation which is perfect for makeup. The result is a light, silky emolliency.
Make Your Own Makeup With Phoenix Chemical
Our formularies can be the foundation of your daily beauty regimen, or the foundation of your bustling beauty business! These formularies posts are intended to show you that through partnership with Phoenix Chemical, creating your own beauty brand or customizing your own product is not just a dream, but a reality that can be achieved.
