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Equipment Needed to Make Skincare Products


New to making skincare products? Don't know where to begin? Well you came to the right place, but the first thing we must do is gather some equipment for crafting your skincare products. You can't make anything without the proper tools, right? Okay lets just cut to the chase and talk about what you all came here for; Equipment Needed to Make Skincare Products

  • An Accurate Scale

Having a scale to weight out your ingredients is CRUCIAL when crafting skincare products. A lot of DIY recipes you will see online are measured out in tablespoons, teaspoons, cups, etc. but this is NOT how skincare products should be made. It is not an accurate way to make a product. So you must weight out your ingredients. For example, how are you suppose to measure out 1.5% of your preservative with a teaspoon? You just can't! It must be weighed out. We will talk about how to formulate recipes later, but for now, just


keep in mind that recipes are weighed out and you need a scale that weights to 0.01 grams.

  • Pipettes

If you don't know what Pipettes are click here so you can see what they look like. Pipettes are used to easily and more accurately transfer small amounts of liquids. For example, if you need to weight out 1 gram of an ingredient, it is so much easier to use a little pipette to transfer your liquid rather than pouring it straight from the bottle.

  • Temperature Gun

Temperature guns a


re a great tool to easily take the temperature of your formulations. You may be wondering why we would have to take the temperature of our formulations. Well for most recipes you have to heat up both your oil and water phases in order to emulsify them together. For example, if you are making a lotion you must weight out your oil phase (this includes; oil thickeners, & emulsifiers) in a separate container from your water ingredients (this includes; distilled water, rose water, aloe vera juice, hydrolyzed proteins, etc) heat these two phases up to at least 158 degrees fahrenheit and hold it there for 20 minutes. So the best and easiest way to make sure your oil phase and water phase both reach 158 degrees, you must take its temperature. You also will need a temperature gun for various other reasons, but we will discuss that later. All that is important to know now, it that you need a temperature gun.

  • PH Meter

You know what a lot of people love? PH balanced products. & the only way to balance your products ph is with a ph meter. Our skins ph naturally is around 5.5 so it is best to formulate your products to


have a ph level that doesn't disrupt our natural ph level. Of course a ph balanced product isn't necessary, but it's definitely something most people prefer and some ingredients aren't even active unless they are in a certain ph. For example; the preservative Leucidal SF complete is only active in ph's between 3-8 so you must balance your product to be in this ph range in order for the preservative to work.

  • Stove Top

As I mentioned earlier in this post about how you must heat up your formulations, well in order to do this you must have a stove top. In order to heat up my phases I measure my ingredients in h


eat safe containers (beakers) I then take a pan, fill it up with about an inch or two of water, (depending on how big my beakers are) then I place both my beakers into the pan filled with water. This creates a "water bath" or "double boiler". I don't recommend using a microwave or any other heating tool. A stove top is all I recommend.

  • Beakers

Beakers are the BEST things to formulate your recipes in. They have measuring increments on the sides of them so you know exactly how much product can fit in them and they have a perfect little pouring spout to make pouring your formulations easy! They are heat resistant and you have the ability to sterilize them since they are glass.

  • Immersion Blender

I use my immersion blender all the time! You may not need one for every formulation, but you will need one to make a lot of stuff, specifically lotions.



  • Hand Mixer

Plan on making body scrubs? Well you will need a hand mixer for that and for various other products. Now you could mix a lot of things that you would typically use a hand mixer for by hand, but lets be honest, ain't nobody got the strength or time for that. Get yourself a hand mixer, it will make your life MUCH easier!

  • Glass Mixing Bowls


Plan on making some big batches of maybe bath salts, body scrubs, or anything else that is just to big for a beaker, well that is when glass mixing bowls come in handy. I personally recommend glass over plastic because it's very difficult, if not impossible, to sterilize plastic.

  • Funnels

Need to pour something in a small container? This is when funnels come in handy. I typically only use them when I am pouring powdered products in containers, but I'm sure you will need them for various other reasons.

  • Mixing tools

I guess immersion


blender and hand mixer could go under this category, but what about products that don't need such a strong "mixing" well I like to use popsicle sticks for that. If I'm making a toner and just want to give the ingredients a little mix popsicle sticks are perfect! They are already clean and easily disposable. You don't have to worry about making extra dishes or even sterilizing them before hand.

  • Mason Jars

Mason Jars a


re a great thing to store pre made products in. Don't want to bottle up all your product? Just store it in a sterilized mason jar. You can easily sterilize them and you could even use them to store your ingredients in. There are so many uses for mason jars.

  • Dixie Cups

Dixie cups definitely aren't necessary, but I love having them around. I use them for various reasons. They are a great thing to have laying around (in a clean environment of course) to grab and weight something out in with out having to sterilize a whole container.



  • Storage tub

I personally like to store all of my equipment in a large plastic storage tub. It's a great way to keep all my equipment in one place and it keeps hair or dust from contaminating my equipment. This isn't necessary, but it's really nice to have. So this is all the equipment that I personally use to make skincare products. You may not need all these tools to craft your products, but this should give you a good idea at what I use on a daily basis. Of course there are so many other tools out there that can make crafting skincare products easier, but these are just the things I use and the things that I find to be necessary. I attached a file down below if you would like to save this post to your computer or print it out.


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