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Don’t underestimate the value of skin feel in your products. You can make the very bestest, seriously kicking bum kind of product filled with the very best cosmeceuticals, extracts, oils, and hydrosols, but if you hate the feel of it, you’ve wasted your time. When it comes to making lotions, whipped butters, lotion bars, and...
In this post, Anonymous asks about PEG-7 olivate: How is this in terms of non-toxic? Are there any concerns about health with this ingredient? I keep hearing some personal care products linked to a 1,4 dioxide carinogen for example. I wrote a post about 1,4-dioxane in the much maligned ingredients series, but I’ll write a little...
HIGH SHEAR AND GUAR GUM?In this post on high shear, Lucy Townsend asks: If using guar gum in shampoo making and oils, I just mix with a spoon, would this be considered to be a “low shear” method? Am I using the correct method? Are you using guar gum or cationic guar gum? They have similar...
Have a weekend wondering? Have a question for which you can’t find an answer or something that’s been bugging you for weeks? Visit this post and share your weekend wondering with us! DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT MAGACAMIANUSSOL MIGHT BE?In this post, Lise asks: Have you ever come across this ingredient: Magacamianussöl (from an ingredients list...
If I thought I was scaring you with Chemistry Thursday, I must be terrifying you with Physics Friday! Please keep reading…it’s really interesting and relevant stuff! Recently someone asked me if using a giant mixing device on a drill was a good idea for larger batches of products! (See this post…) He brought up the...