Abstract: The invention is a process for producing a dairy-based cosmetic product, which comprises preparing a premix by mixing whey powder with a liquid carrier, heating the resulting mixture, then cooling the heated mixture, adding a preservative and imidazolidinyl urea to the mixture prior to or after heating to complete preparation of the premix, and formulating a cosmetic product from the premix by adding EDTA or an EDTA salt and citric acid to the premix, and completing the formulation, the cosmetic product containing at least about 3% wt. whey solids basis.

Abstract: A process for producing a whey product with extended shelf life, involving defatting the whey byproduct of cheesemaking, pasteurizing the defatted whey the first time, adding an adjuvant to the pasteurized whey, optionally adjusting the pH of the adjuvant-containing whey, pasteurizing the optionally pH-adjusted whey a second time, and recovering of the whey product.