How to calculate a cosmetic product's shelf life

A hugely useful document that helps you to understand how to approximately calculate a cossmetic product's shelf life. 

This file is available for you to download for 90 days once payment has been received.

A quick guide to calculating the shelf life of your handmade cosmetic products.

PDF document

Please note that this information is also available in the Creams, Lotions and Body Butters Technical Manual.

The Plush Folly guide unravels the mysteries of CLP.

The guide covers:

What is CLP and what products are included?

Labelling your candles

    Safety symbols

    CLP pictograms

    Precautionary and hazard information

Labelling your room diffusers

    CLP pictograms

    Precautionary and hazard information

Examples of labels

Safety Data Sheets

Further reading

Please note that this is an information guide for you to read and support is not offered as part of your purchase.

Plush Folly offer an eConsultancy service if you require specific assistance.

Plush Folly - Perfume Blending Chart - 100 aromas each listed with our top 10 smells to blend them with.  Printed onto a handy sized, double sided A5 chart to keep next to you when designing your blends.

Perfect if you have gone 'nose blind' when blending for perfumes, fizz, room diffusers, candles and other scented products.  This chart should help inspire you!

The chart lists 100 aromas (fragrance and essential oils) in alphabetical order and next to each aroma we have included a list of the top ten aromas we feel would go nicely with that aroma.

Hugely useful for those of you who are making or plan to make your own creams, lotions and body butters. This manual contains circa 90 pages and goes behind the scenes and explains how to choose and substitute ingredients, formulate/reformulate your products, enhance your creams so that they feel silkier, smoother, runnier, thicker and are suitable for different skin types and conditions – and much more!

For those of you who already own the ‘Make Your Own Skin Care Products’ by Sally Hornsey and are wondering whether this ovelaps…the answer is yes, in places, it does. The Skin Care book assumes no prior knowledge in making skin care products whereas the technical manual is designed for those who are already making creams and lotions and have questions about changing the formulations, substituting ingredients, designing your own creams and using alternative preservatives or emulsifiers.

All the recipes in the technical manual are new for that manual and are not the same as the cream recipes in the Skin Care book. Some of the theories will naturally be the same and ingredients selected for their ability to help a particular skin problem are naturally included in both.

I guess its like having a recipe book on making cakes. A second book on making cakes will be similar, but give you new ideas and recipes.

The document contains over 30 recipes, but it is more of a reference source than a recipe book.

“This has got everything I need, all my questions answered in one place!”