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So here’s my first entry into the six ingredient challenge. I debated many oils while making this first one…did I want something with loads of linoleic acid for the winter time or did I want something with occlusiveness? What did I want as a humectant? Did I want to spend an ingredient on an extract...
Welcome to the six ingredient lotion challenge! The rules are simple – make a lotion using only six ingredients. Water, preservative, fragrance or essential oils do not count towards the six ingredients, but everything else does (including hydrosols or aloe vera that you might substitute for the water portion). You can make type of lotion you...
Okay, so we know all about saponins – from yesterday’s post – so let’s take a look at sapogenins and how they differ. If you’ll recall from yesterday, a saponin contains two parts – the glycone, which is the sugar part, and the aglycone, which is the non-sugar part. When a saponin undergoes hydrolysis, the...
Are you planning any major resolutions? I am! WHAT TO CHANGEContinue to work on organization. I need to find a way to get all my notebooks in a place where they’re handy and organized. Continue to set and maintain firm boundaries. I have to remember not to over-schedule myself for November and December! WHAT TO...
So this week’s Iron Chemist challenge was to make at least two products with sodium lactate. I admit this was a very hard ingredient to use because I use it in just about everything, so how am I to come up with some new ways of using it? I can’t use it in a rinse...