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FROM THE LAB
I make products. Then I teach you how.
I work in R&D for a luxury skincare brand, and I've been teaching cosmetic formulation since 2015. Everything I write here comes from the workbench, not from a textbook summary or a quick Google.
If you want to understand why a formula works (or why yours didn't), you're in the right place.
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