3in1 micellar water

Micellar waters are one of the most under-estimated personal care products in the "natural" and "organic" product section. It is quite amazing because with the "less-is-more" and "less-waste" concept formulators and brand owners shall automatically switch to multifunctional products that fulfil the purpose of several products but this seems to be an illusion of me.

Anyway, we already have shared a few micellar waters in the past and we upgrade our formulation with each new active ingredient we add to the product portfolio.

Today I'm sharing a product that could easily fulfill the functions of a moisturizer, toner and a makeup remover. It doesn't really belong to the zero-waste trend because you need a container for this product but at least you are using one container instead of 3 containers. That is less real-estate occupied in the bathroom and that is less stress for the user and for the skin.

The formulation is quite simple and the procedure is straightforward. The concentration of the surfactants used here is so low that the product could stay on skin and turn into a leave-on moisturizer/toner.

Formulation

Procedure:

1- Blend phase A in a beaker. A magnetic stirrer works perfectly and makes your life much easier but you can manage small batches even without any instrument and just with a spatula. The powders need a little bit time to completely dissolve

2- Slowly add the surfactant phase. You want to avoid agitation and excessive foaming at this stage

3- Make a 10% dilution in distilled water and measure the pH. At this stage the pH of our sample was 4,87 which is too low for this preservative system. We added arginin (0,1%) to increase the pH

4- Prepare another 10% dilution and remeasure the pH. At this stage the pH was 5,03 and that is OK to add this preservative blend. It slightly increases the pH

5- Add the preservative. Prepare another 10% dilution and measure the final pH 5,23

6- Take the stability and microkit samples and fill the rest in a suitable container

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