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Caffeine & Escin Eye Cream DIY

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Hello there! 🙂

This new recipe for an Eye-Cream for my blue circles and puffiness. I felt it did help a little (even though cosmetics are never magic potions).
I am really satisfied!

Escin and Caffeine Eye Cream

I wrote “blue circles” and not the more generic “dark circles” because there are two different kinds of dark circles:
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Zombie Vaccine – Lifting Eye Gel ;)

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Who doesn’t look like a zombie in the morning? (ok maybe you don’t… but I do! 😀 )
So here is a simple recipe for deleting that zombie face!!! 😀

[unfortunately the name “zombie vaccine” is not my invention: I had seen it on a funny coffee cup but couldn’t resist using it for this eye gel! :D]

ZOMBIE VACCINE 2

Today I have decided to share the recipe for this lifting eye serum-gel with you!
Yes, I have called it “serum” because it is made of 100% active ingredients 😉 let me show you how…

ZOMBIE VACCINE 3

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Caffeine – formulating

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CAFFEINE is a quite common cosmetic ingredient. It can be found mostly in eye creams or anti-cellulite products but lately it has been added even to soaps or shower gels.
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Chemical Name: Caffeine
Chemical Formula: C8-H10-N4-O2
Molecular Weight: 194.2 g/mole
Color: White.
pH (1% soln/water): 6.9 [Neutral.]
Solubility: The product is equally soluble in oil and water; log(oil/water) = -0.1.
Caffeine is moderately soluble in water at room temperature (2 g/100 mL), but very soluble in boiling water (66 g/100 mL). It is also moderately soluble in ethanol (1.5 g/100 mL). It is weakly basic (pKa = ~0.6) requiring strong acid to protonate it.
Incompatibilities with Other Materials: Strong oxidizing agents.
Hazardous Decomposition Products: Nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, irritating and toxic fumes and gases, carbon dioxide.
(Source: here and here)

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Anti-puffiness Caffeine Eye cream – Recipe

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The skin of the eye area is very delicate and thin.

The “Prince Ingredient” of this cream I have formulated is CAFFEINE, which is traditionally used in eye-area formulations for its well-known de-puffing and stimulating propertie
Read the post about caffeine to know how to use it in cosmetics.

FORMULA: 

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