The Dry Oil Advantage
Formulating Lightweight Face & Body Care
Introductory price: $97 (regularly $149)
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You've done everything right, chosen beautiful oils and blended them carefully but the finished product still feels heavier than you wanted. It sits on the skin instead of sinking in.
This is less about technique and more about oil selection.
There is a category of whole plant oils and butters that naturally absorb fast, feel dry on the skin, and give your formulas that lightweight, silky finish without a single synthetic additive.
Once you understand how to work with these dry oils and plant butters, you can control the skin feel of everything you make.
When you understand dry oils and butters, you can design formulas that absorb quickly, feel light on the skin, and never feel greasy
Most formulators reach for additives like silicones, starches, or powders when they want a lighter feel, but these are workarounds that treat the symptom of oiliness rather than the cause, which has more to do with the chemistry of the oils in a formula.
Working with dry oils and butters solves the problem of greasy or heavy oily feeling face and body oils without synthetic or even natural additives.
The light absorbent skin feel of these oils and butters comes from the structure of the oil itself, the geometry of the triglycerides, distribution of fatty acids and the unsaponifiable compounds that interact with the skin's own lipid matrix.
Some oils spread in a thin, even film that integrates seamlessly with the stratum corneum and simply disappears.
Others are taken up rapidly by skin enzymes, leaving almost no surface residue. Certain plant butters melt at skin temperature, spread across the surface, and reassemble into an almost powdery protective film that feels nothing like a butter should.
This is the science behind why the skin feel of different oils varies so much, and once you have this in your formulating toolbox you can incorporate these dry oils and butters into all your skincare formulas.
This course is for you if:
You make skincare with whole plant oils and butters and want more control over how your products feel on the skin. Whether you're formulating facial oils, body oils, balms, salves, or lotion bars, understanding dry oils and butters will change the way you build every formula.
What You'll Learn
The Dry Oils Advantage is a condensed course so that you can get the information you need and get back to your formulating projects.
Lesson 1: The Mechanism of Dry
What makes an oil feel dry on skin and why it has nothing to do with tannins or astringency. A clear look at triglyceride geometry, oleic vs. linoleic acid behavior, and the unsaponifiable compounds that contribute to a non-greasy finish.
Lesson 2: The Dry Liquid Oils
A detailed survey of the dry liquid oils, camellia, hazelnut, rosehip, cranberry, pomegranate, evening primrose, kiwi seed, grape seed, and more. Their fatty acid profiles, skin benefits, and the specific mechanisms that give each one its elegant feel.
Lesson 3: The Dry Plant Butters
The butters that behave nothing like you'd expect. How crystalline lipid structure and stereospecific triglyceride geometry create a dry, protective film and which butters to reach for when you want that quality in a formula.
Lesson 4: Formulating with Dry Oils
A guided formulation walkthrough using four dry oils camellia, cranberry, evening primrose, and açaÃ. You'll see exactly how the oils complement each other, what each contributes to the finished formula, and how to apply this thinking to your own projects.
Putting theory into practice
The course includes a complete day serum formula, a four-oil combination with a full breakdown of what each oil contributes to the finished formula. It is lightweight, antioxidant-rich, and elegant on skin using only whole plant oils.
But the serum is just a starting point. Once you understand the mechanisms behind dry oils and butters, you can apply that knowledge to every formula you make, facial oils, body oils, balms, salves, lotion bars. The principles don't change, your formulas just get better.
Ready to formulate with dry oils?
Join The Dry Oils Advantage and learn to control the skin feel of your formulas using only whole plant oils and butters.
Introductory price: $97 (regularly $149)
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