Month: October 2013

Weekend Wonderings: pH with willow bark extract, using Optiphen ND with proteins or goat’s milk, and some administrative things

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DOES WILLOW BARK EXTRACT NEED A LOWER pH?In this post on white willow bark, Heela asks: I wonder if this needs to be in a product that has a pH between 3-4 like traditional salicylic acid? Also, if it is in a higher pH formulation, does the salicylic acid become neutralized or can you drop the...

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Natural products: A look at a few ingredient lists

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In this post on Ritathix DOE, Kate noted: PEG compounds are excluded from ECOcert so I’m not sure how this could be claimed as natural. (Click on the label to embiggen if you want to read the entire list properly.) I’ve said this before…I don’t know what natural means any more. There isn’t a definition...

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Ritathix DOE: Thickening a product

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I introduced you to Ritathix DOE yesterday, a new liquid thickener we can add to surfactant based products like body wash, shampoo, or other lathery and foamy things, so I thought I’d show you a little video I made about it today. I thought I’d thicken up the body wash I formulated for really oily...

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Thickeners: Ritathix DOE

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As I mentioned in this Weekend Wonderings post, I bought Ritathix DOE, a thickener for surfactant based products and I thought I’d give it a try. Let’s take a look at this thickener in this post, then look at how I use it to thicken things in tomorrow’s post. Then we’ll compare it to Crothix...

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What the heck can I do with this Wednesday: Grapeseed extract

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In an e-mail, Roberta suggested we take a look at grapeseed extract (INCI: Vitis vinifera) as our first What the heck can I do with this ingredient. I happen to be a huge fan of grapeseed extract. It’s a dark coloured extract that offers a ton of polyphenols that might help with stabilization and maintenance...

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