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Homemade Mushroom Facial Serum w/ Hyaluronic Acid

This mushroom facial serum is great for mature skin because it is packed with anti aging ingredients.

Mushroom Facial Serum Formula

Heated Water Phase

62.5% Distilled Water


Cool Down Phase


ph adjustments

make sure ph is around 6. Niacinamide needs to be in a ph around 6. Watch my video here to learn how to adjust ph.

Directions

Use a digital scale that weighs to 0.01 grams and measure out your heated water phase ingredients. I combined my ingredients in a 50ml glass beaker. Once all your heated water ingredients are weighed out take the weight of your water phase including the weight of the beaker. Take note of this weight. We will be heating the water phase up and when you do this some water will evaporate, so we will need to replace any water that has evaporated. Now place your beaker in a water bath and heat to 158 degrees fahrenheit and hold for 20 minutes to sterilize all your ingredients and this will also help dissolve the powdered ingredients. Keep track of the temperature using a temperature gun. Once 20 minutes has passed, remove from heat and weigh your formulation and replace any water that has been evaporated. Once your formulation has cooled down, it's time to weigh out the cool down ingredients. Start with the mushroom extract and leucidal SF complete. Just make sure you add the hyaluronic acid last because it is our gelling ingredients. Once it is time to add the hyaluronic acid, try to mix it up and break it up as much as possible. It will be really really hard to break up and it probably wont break up very well. Just do your best to try and mix it in as much as possible. After mixing it for 5-10 minutes let it sit for 3 hours. Come back in 3 hours and it should be a nice gelled texture. There may be some clumps in it. If there is, just mix it up and let it sit for another half hour or so. Once everything has gelled through, you are done! It's time to package your serum. I used a .5 oz glass dropper bottle to store my serum in.


Here is the exact recipe I used

Heated Water Phase

Distilled Water - 9.37 grams

Rose Water - 3 grams

Glycerin - .6 grams

Panthenol - .3 grams

Niacinamide - .3 grams

Allantoin - .07 grams

Cool Down Phase

Mushroom Extract - .6 grams






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