Month: April 2019

Preservatives: Let’s talk about hurdle technology and “self-preservation”

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Thanks for joining me for this aside on the idea of a product that contains water, like a lotion, can be “self-preserving”. There’s a post on Lush’s site – A beginners’ guide to self-preserving – that we’ll get to shortly, but first, we need to take a look at the idea of hurdle technology, “a term used...

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Working with Lysofix® and Lecigel®: The lab at In Cosmetics Global, write ups, and formulas

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I’m finally getting time to process all the things we saw and learned at In Cosmetics Global in Paris (April 2nd to 4th), and wow, did we experience a lot! On Wednesday, April 3rd (day two) we took in a lab with Lucas Meyer to make a lovely, natural, cold process lotion using their brand new...

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Q&A: Where to start duplicating Lush’s American Pie body conditioner lotion? Part one: Analyzing the ingredient list

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In part one, we reviewed the ingredient list for the American Pie Naked Body Conditioner, an anhydrous bar. In part two, I tried to find one to try, but they were either sold out or discontinued, so I bought a Little Pot of Energy Naked Body Lotion. As an aside, we took a look at...

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Why I don’t create today, share tomorrow

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This is why I never make something today, share the formula tomorrow. It takes time to see how a product performs in different temperatures and humidities, to see if a lotion separates, a thickener fails, a suspender sinks. We saw that big time while working with the Garamite 7308, thickening clay, as everything fell apart...

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Where to start duplicating Lush’s American Pie solid body conditioner? Part six: Little Pot of Energy, version 4

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Welcome back to this duplication of Lush’s Little Pot of Energy solid lotion bar! We’ve been working on this for a few days now. Here are the posts so far in this series… Where to start duplicating Lush’s American Pie Solid Body Conditioner? Part one Where to start duplicating Lush’s American Pie Solid Body Conditioner?...

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