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Many Ingredients in Small Amounts
If your product has many ingredients is very small amounts, it can be hard to calculate the exact descending order for the ingredient declaration. There is, however, a trick to make it easier!
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George Washington Carver’s Peanut Lotion
George Washington Carver’s work with peanuts is legendary. The uses included various cosmetics; here’s his recipe for a peanut oil lotion.
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Unsaponified Oils in the Ingredient Declaration
In a soap ingredient declaration you can list what goes INTO the pot, or what comes OUT of the pot. So what do you call the unsaponified oils?
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Label Review – Clockwork Orange Soap
A new video label review of Orange Clockwork Soap by Apothecary Soap covering all the basics that should be on a soap label.
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FDA Warns Amazon
The FDA just sent warning letters to three companies that introducing unapproved new drugs into interstate commerce. What’s interesting is that one of them is Amazon.com
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Making the Ingredients Fit
Sometimes it can be hard to make the ingredients declaration fit on a label. Here is a tip for squeezing everything in.
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Carmine
Carmine is an approved color additive that produces a beautiful color. It comes from insects.
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FDA Warns Young Living (Again)
The FDA has cited Young Living again over the intended use of their products. See what you can learn from their mistakes.
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Measuring the Net Contents Statement
A tip for measuring the font size for the net contents statement on soaps and cosmetic labels to make sure it’s big enough.
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Glycerin
Glycerin – a most versitile ingredient in food, cosmetic, drugs, tobacco, paint, and even embalming fluid. And, of course, soap.
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Endorsements, Reviews & Testimonials
Reviews and testimonials are highly effective marketing tools. So effective that the FTC has issued rules covering them.
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Revlon Bankruptcy
An interesting tidbit from the world of big cosmetic companies. …Cosmetic company Revlon filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month.
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