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If you’ve never used stearic acid in a lotion before, this is the lotion formula I recommend as a great starting point. It’s a small variation on the basic lotion you’ll find in the newbie section of the blog, but it’s a great way to learn what stearic acid brings to your product. As I mentioned...
Poor stearic acid. It’s often overlooked for its glidier, silkier cousin cetyl alcohol, but this fatty acid is an inexpensive way to thicken a lotion, anhydrous body butter, lotion bar, and more. Stearic acid is a saturated, long chain fatty acid with 18 carbon molecules, which is to say it is a chain of carbons...
Happy Victoria Day, everyone! I’m off today, lying on the couch, and trying not to get upset about last night’s Game of Thrones. (And to those of you who might yell “spoilers!” at me. Every episode makes me cry. I have no idea why I keep watching it!!!) Thanks for all your positive thoughts on...
Update: I have moved to asking everyone to log in with a Google name or Open ID for the time being. As well, any comments on posts older than 14 days will be moderated as that’s how the spammer was working. I will allow anything that isn’t spam or something mean! The spammer, Aiken Barlow...
Thanks to the spammer who has been running around my blog posting his/her BS all night for the last week, I’m restricting commenting to only those who log in for at least a week or so. I’m sorry to those of you without Google log ins, but I am spending an hour at least wading...