Cosmetic Additives - R to Z

Ultra Refined Shea Butter is a premium-quality, white shea butter that has undergone advanced filtration to remove impurities, resulting in a smooth, odorless, and highly versatile ingredient. Its refined nature makes it ideal for a wide range of formulations, offering exceptional moisturizing properties without the characteristic scent or color of unrefined shea butter.

Craft exceptional handmade soaps with our food-grade Sodium Hydroxide Flakes, also known as lye flakes. Essential for cold and hot process soap making, these high-purity flakes ensure a smooth saponification process, yielding luxurious, skin-friendly bars.? Also known as sodium hydroxide lye, this ingredient is a critical component in traditional soap making recipes. Whether you're producing small-batch artisan soaps or manufacturing at a larger scale, sodium hydroxide lye allows crafters to control the texture, hardness, and lather of their finished products. It’s a trusted choice for soap makers seeking consistent results with every batch.

Vitamin E T50 is an excellent antioxidant for products containing oils. All natural Vitamin E 50/50 blend with edible vegetable oils. Vitamin E is a great additive to enhance lotions, lip balms, sugar scrubs, beard oil and more! Please note it has a slight characteristic odor. For those looking for bulk vitamin E oil, we offer natural vitamin E oil wholesale options. Our wholesale and bulk purchasing options are a great choice whether you need Vitamin E Natural T-50 for large-scale production or small-batch crafting!

Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate (SCI) Powder is the sodium salt ester of coconut fatty acid. It is a very gentle surfactant that is also known as BabyFoam. Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate Powder is non-drying, creates luxurious foam and leaves a silky feeling on the skin.

Our Refined Sweet Almond Oil is a lightweight, deeply penetrating carrier oil known for its excellent spread-ability and skin moisturizing properties. With a rich composition of Vitamin E, essential fatty acids, and antioxidants, it is known to hydrate and protect skin. These attributes make Sweet Almond Oil an excellent choice for massage oils, cosmetics, and treatment products, including beard oils, sugar scrubs, lotion bars, and more!

Sodium cocoyl isethionate is a gentle surfactant based fatty acid derived from coconut oil. It acts as a foaming and cleansing agent. Commonly used in made from scratch shampoos, shower gels and more! Sulfate-free and biodegradable.

Refined Sunflower Oil is a versatile and economical alternative to higher-priced oils, known to offer excellent penetrating and moisturizing qualities. Its lightweight texture makes it ideal for massage oils, cold-process and hot-process soap, lotions, scrubs, and other skincare formulations.

White Kaolin Clay is a mild, natural cosmetic clay widely used in cold-process soap and other skincare formulations such as bath bombs and face masks. This gentle white clay does not excessively absorb natural oils, making it suitable for daily use. Renowned for its versatility, kaolin clay is a natural thickening agent in cosmetic products, and it is reported to help cleanse and gently exfoliate the skin. It is one of the most widely used cosmetic clays due to its soft texture and its ability to improve formula stability in skincare products.

Rose Hip Oil is very high in Vitamin C, which is considered to be beneficial to the skin. Thought to add moisturizing and other beneficial properties to skin. Rosehip Oil can be used in soap, hand cream and face cream formulations!

Puts foam in bath formulations. Works well in soft and hard water. This is an airborne product. You will need a mask and a contained space when making your finished product. Also called SLSa.

Vanilla Color Stabilizer for Cold Process Soap prevents the vanilla in fragrance oils from turning lye based soap formulations brown. It will not prevent color changes due to ingredients other than vanilla. Must use in a well ventilated area.
Use this VCS in Cold Process Soap and Bath Fizzies Only. Flashpoint: 200°, Vanilla Content: 0.00%, Phthalate Free

Pure Shea Butter considered to be high in vitamin/mineral content which is thought to be useful on dry skin. Refined and deodorized with natural clays. Takes a higher temperature than most to melt. Shea Butter is a very popular butter used in soap and cosmetics, including lotion, cream, and lip balm. Pronounced: Shh-aye

Sodium Carbonate is also called Washing Soda! It is an excellent stain remover and sometimes used as a water softener. Often used in combination with sodium borate, also known as borax. Use to make handmade laundry soap and homemade dishwasher tabs!

Triple pressed palm Stearic Acid that is cosmetic grade. Stearic Acid is commonly used to emulsify lotions made from scratch. This can also be used in candle manufacturing to raise the melt point and improve the hardness of candle wax.

Sodium Lactate is used to harden cold process soap while minimizing shrinkage associated with curing. It is derived from carbohydrate sugars and purified lactic acid specifically for the cosmetic industry. Use Sodium Lactate to make your Cold Process Soap bars hard and smooth. Sodium lactate also makes cold process soap easy to unmold!

Sodium Borate is the base ingredient in Borax and has an effectiveness often compared to OxiClean. It works by converting water molecules to hydrogen peroxide. It has a pH of 9.3 and produces a basic solution in water which increases the effectiveness of cleaners. Most commonly combined with washing soda to make handmade laundry soap formulations. Can also be used to create homemade toilet and dishwasher tabs!

Rice Bran Oil has high concentrations of tocopherol and tocotrienol, two forms of the powerful antioxidant Vitamin E! This Oil is great for face care products! When applied directly to the skin, many see the difference in skin appearance. Absorbs quickly.

Our alcohol-free Witch Hazel is a popular, natural astringent that is thought to have anti-inflammatory properties. It can be used in salves, creams, lotions, toners, and more. Flashpoint: 110°

Protein source used as an additive in skin and hair care products. Thought to provide a protective barrier and silky feel to formulations. It can be used in lotions, soaps, hair care and skincare products. It is a water based additive.

Rose Kaolin Clay is a colored cosmetic clay that is very popular in skincare products. This Rose Clay can be used to thicken products and absorb extra oil. Use this beautifully colored clay in face masks, bar soap, bath fizzies and more!

Sodium Lauryl Ether Sulfate (SLES) Liquid Surfactant is an excellent all around surfactant that is used to develop top-performing cleaning and washing formulas. SLES, also known as sodium laureth sulfate or sodium lauryl ether sulfate, provides improved mildness over sodium lauryl sulfate without sacrificing performance attributes, such as cleaning, foaming and viscosity response.

Rose Hydrosol is thought to be a superior additive in soap making and for face and skin care. Add this Rose Essential Hydrosol into handmade lotion, soap, hair care products, linen spray, facial products and more. Implement into the water phase of formulas.

Zinc Ricinoleate is an odor absorber in the form of wax-like pellets. Zinc Ricinoleate is a key ingredient in most deodorant formulations, as it traps and absorbs odor as well as easily emulsifies into oils and waxes. Melting point is 158ºF to 160ºF.

Highly Active, high quality SLS Powdered sodium lauryl sulfate. Useful in powdered or tablet or blended liquid hard surface, and carpet cleaners, powdered bubble baths, and cleansing preparations, scouring and foaming agents SLS is also commonly used in many in textile and industrial cleaners, powdered hand cleaners. Great to use in bath products, shampoos, foaming powders and more.

Shea 50 is a water dispersible emollient that adds the luxurious properties of shea to many of your cosmetic formulations. This is a light yellow liquid with a very mild odor that is enhance foam and moisturize. Use Shea 50 in bath fizzies, soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion and more!

Pure Zinc Oxide is used in a wide variety of applications including: Creams, Ointments, Lotions, Deodorants and pigment (white) for paper.

It is thought to help calm redness and inflammation associated with conditions like acne and diaper rash.
Known for its ability to block the sun's UVA rays, it is often used in sunscreens.
Zinc oxide also has antimicrobial properties, and it may control bacterial growth on the skin.

Shorea/Sal Butter is considered to have high levels of uniform triglycerides which are thought help with oxidation and stability in formulations. Most popular in lotion bars due to the high levels of stearic and oleic fatty acids. Shorea Butter can be used in silky body butters, lotion bars, lip balms and more!

Sea Clay, also known as French Green Clay, is a cosmetic grade clay that can be useful on oily skin. It is grayish green in color and is the clay used to make Sea Mud Masks! Use this amazing clay in facial bars, face masks and soap.

Safflower Oil is thought to be high in oleic acid which is considered to help skin feel moisturized and nourished! We love using Safflower Oil in Cold Process Soap, Sugar Scrubs and Lotion recipes!

Rosemary Oleoresin Extract is a natural anti-oxidant. It is 100% pure and has a dark green color and particular aroma. It helps extend the shelf life of oils by preventing them from turning brown and going rancid. This is not a preservative and will not prevent mold, yeast and/or fungal growth. ROE also helps combat DOS.

Crafter's Choice Smooth & Creamy Lotion Bar Additive is a beeswax derivative that has gained tremendous popularity in lotion bar and lip balm formulas. It prevents the grainy texture shea butter typically exhibits when cooled. When added at 5%, shea butter lotion bars are smooth and creamy. Can also be used in solid perfume, soap and soap frosting.

Xanthan Gum is specifically designed for the cosmetic (not food) industry to be used as a thickening agent. Cosmetic xanthan gum can be used in liquid soaps, hair shampoo, shower jellies, soaps and lotions. It is the same product that major retailers use to naturally thicken products!

Tapioca Starch is used as a Talc replacement in cosmetics. Imparts a smooth, soft feel on the skin. Use in Bath powders, body powder, natural shave creams and lotions!

Stearyl alcohol is a very effective stabilizer, thickening agent, and emulsifier, for making lotions, creams, shower gel, hair care products, lip balm and more. Stearyl Alcohol is a vegetable-based, refined fatty alcohol from from sustainable coconut oils. Compared to other fatty alcohols, like cetyl alcohol, in many formulations, stearyl alcohol will result in a product with a slightly softer, conditioned feel and a whiter appearance. Flashpoint: 383°

Tucuma Butter is considered to have high levels of Lauric, Myristic and Oleoic fatty acids which are all thought to moisturize the skin and hair. This butter has a natural gloss and glide that can be useful in hair care, massage and lotion formulations.

Triethanolamine 99%, also known as TEA, is often used in make-up products such as blush and foundations, as well as in hair care products, shaving products, and skin cleansing products. It is often used in the manufacturing of other chemicals - like surfactants, and emulsifiers.