Cosmetic formulation Course
This course equips you with essential skills to formulate professional water-based serums featuring niacinamide and panthenol. Delve into selecting ingredients, creating alcohol-free preservatives, handling INCI labels, adjusting pH levels, ensuring safety and compliance, performing stability tests, and scaling up from lab to production—perfect for chemists aiming to develop top-quality skincare in a Kenyan context.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills to craft stable water-based serums using niacinamide and panthenol. Master ingredient choices, INCI labelling, phase organisation, alcohol-free preservation methods, chelation techniques, rheology management, pH balancing, safety protocols, basic regulations, production processes, and easy stability and performance tests for effective skincare products.
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Develop skills
- Design water-based serums by choosing humectants, emollients, and rheology modifiers.
- Create secure preservative blends that are alcohol-free, suitable for sensitive skin, and meet EU/US standards.
- Formulate effectively with niacinamide and panthenol for stable, pH-balanced active delivery.
- Conduct fast stability and quality checks including viscosity, pH, appearance, and basic microbial tests.
- Convert lab recipes into accurate INCI labels with proper naming, phase details, and regulatory compliance.
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