The Formulators LAB is an online training platform with a monthly membership, a member community forum and formulation classes. You have unlimited access to lessons with cosmetic industry experts, the resource library, forum and member perks. It’s a place of support for you. It’s the next step after taking formulation classes or if you’ve been making cosmetics, to advance your cosmetic formulator skills. The Formulators LAB is here to help you make stable, safe and effective cosmetics. To empower you and provide you with a database of sustainable plant-based, cruelty-free ingredients. We’re here to save you time and money by supplying you with resources. Our goal is to empower you to become the best cosmetic formulator.

The modern formulator is passionate about formulating and making natural hair and skin care products. She wants to make stable, safe, effective and sustainable formulations. The modern formulator transforms nourishing ingredients into products that are an elixir for radiant skin and hair. 

The topics include improving formulations and formulating with surfactants, preservatives and emulsifiers. Formulating with actives and botanicals. Stability and microbial testing. Green chemistry, bio-based ingredients, sustainable ingredients and conscious beauty. Topics on the microbiome of the skin, textured hair, developing formulations and more.

Our members include hair stylists, estheticians, salon owners, those with a hair or skin care business or looking to start one. Anyone passionate about formulating and making natural hair and skin care products and want to advance to the next level. 

The Formulators LAB is a community of modern formulators; cosmetic formulators passionate about making natural, nourishing, green beauty products. If you want a place of support, access to information on sustainable ingredients with expert guests, worksheets designed for you to formulate and make nourishing body, hair and skin without complex systems and tons of ingredients. The Formulators LAB is right for you.

We do not provide consulting or custom formulating. We are not a cosmetic formulation school or a supplier. If you are interested in a school go to Joan Morais Cosmetics School. We are here to offer you support and training to advance your cosmetic formulating skills. 

Sustainability is a core value of The Formulators LAB, it guides the choices we make as a company. Raw materials are processed using the guidelines of the 12 principles of cosmetic chemistry. Sustainability meets the needs of the present without a destructive impact to people, animals and the planet. In return, it promotes the ability of future generations to meet their needs. You can find sustainable, renewable, biodegradable and fair trade ingredients in The Formulators Glossary.

Monthly Membership: We have a flexible and friendly refund policy. We have a three month minimum, cancel anytime after the three months and your membership will end at the end of that three month billing cycle. If canceled before three months, all access to member formulation classes will be denied. 

Formulation Classes: There are no refunds or credits on any online classes with immediate access. Please make sure you understand what you are purchasing. There is no possible way to return a digital product, possession is taken immediately after purchase.