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BulkActives are DIY skin care suppliers of skin actives, cosmetic ingredients, cosmeceuticals, active ingredients, and standardized botanical extracts for diy skin care products and homemade cosmetics.
New & Updates
Attention: BulkActives is a part-time
business.
Orders are processed on Saturdays and mailed on
Mondays.
Free original software: Recipe creator database and HLB calculator
New products:
We now offer a range of NON-formaldehyde releasing preservatives:
paraben and phenoxyethanol free
paraben and phenoxyethanol combo
Back in stock!!
Out of stock:
Purpose of Silymarin as an active ingredients in diy skin care: Silymarin is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. Silymarin offers UV protection and is a non-melanoma skin cancer preventative,
"The milk thistle plant contains silibinin and silymarin, two compounds that are well known for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory properties"
NEW Ultra Low Molecular Weight NaH (hyaluronic acid)
We are pleased to list the cosmeceutical 'ultra-low molecular weight hyaluronic acid' (in the 3000 to 8000 daltons range), as a new and exciting active ingredient for diy skin care and homemade cosmetics.
Ginkgo Biloba has been used in China and Japan for centuries for its healing properties. In DIY skin care the extract is often used in: anti-inflammatory recipes, as an anti-allergenic, to promote collagen production, and for sun damage protection and repair.
Featured skin active:

Featured active skin care ingredient: Silymarin
"Topical application of silymarin significantly decreased skin cancer number and size in a validated model of tumor promotion."
"silibinin protects against UV light-induced DNA damage and cancer cell growth."...more
Special offers: Large Size Combos and DIY Kits
Green Teas EGCG for topical use in skin care have both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It has also shown exceptional protective and restorative properties against the sun's damaging rays.
The Green Tea EGCG usually sold by DIY skin care suppliers has a very dark color. When used at the right percentage this means your skin care product will leave your face quite red, which is not suitable for day time use.
We are happy to finally offer Green Tea EGCG standardized at 90% ! Because it is so pure, the color is off-white to beige.
We suggest EGCG 90% for day time use, and EGCG 70% for night time.
Featured skin care ingredient:
Resveratrol 98% is used in many home made skin care recipes. It is useful as an antioxidant, an anti-inflammatory, for skin lightening & brightening, and for sun damage repair. Resveratol is a natural ingredient that can be found in many plants. The product we sell comes from Giant Knotweed.

Lamellar maker 2121 is a liquid crystals emulsifying system. This mixture of sorbitan stearate with sucrose cocoate is a new generation, European, sugar based emulsifier. As well as forming o/w emulsions it can be used to form water-free emulsions based on an oil phase with a polyol and it forms stable emulsions with high ethanol content. Lamellar maker 2121 is a hydrosome liquid crystal system
Featured functional skin care ingredient: arlatone 2121
New: ready to use skin care base 'Silicone Gel'
Silicone gel DM is unique multi-functional silicone copolymer network. Silicone gel DM helps deliver consumer-perceivable enhanced sensory benefits in skin care and color cosmetic formulations. Silicone gel DM spreads easily on the skin leaving an exquisite, long-lasting silky feel. Stable at a low PH it is extremely suitable for anhydrous l-ascorbic acid formulations.
New products:
NON-formaldehyde releasing preservatives:
paraben free or paraben and phenoxyethanol free or paraben and phenoxyethanol combo