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Sunflower oil is a great inclusion in any lotion or cream you might be making to help with broken skin thanks to all that lovely Vitamin E and linoleic acid, so I’m including it in my zinc oxide lotion. My lotion is based on this one – a light lotion with pumpkin seed oil –...
As you know, one of my favourite products is my emulsified scrub, and one of my favourite oils in said scrubs is sunflower oil. As I just wrote quite a lot about emulsified sugar scrubs in the series on Incroquat BTMS-50, I’m going to refer you to those posts – part one and part two...
As I think I covered this topic in great detail in the Newbie Tuesday: Formulating lotion bars post last year, I’m going to refer you over there. I have links to at least ten variations for lotion bars there. If you want to use sunflower oil in a recipe where there is no sunflower oil listed,...
Sunflower oil is a great oil for a blooming or dispersing bath oil as it is light, has a decent shelf life, and is inexpensive. Oleic acid softens and moisturizes our skin while the linoleic acid helps speed up skin’s barrier repair functions. A dispersing bath oil is a liquid version of the bath melt...
In this post One ingredient, ten products: Incroquat BTMS-50 in emulsified scrubs (part one), MK asks: I made this scrub the other day, but what can we do to heat/humidity proof it? I had a thin film of oil on the top after this product got a little hot in our heat and humidity blast last...