Month: January 2025

#alltheingredients: Sapogel Q (aka NatraSap Q™) – creator of oily gels!

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Because we’ll be holding our first Zoom workshop of 2025 the last weekend of February on creating oily gels with Sapogel Q, Sucragel, and (possibly) sodium surfactin, I thought I’d share a series on each of these ingredients. If you were an Innovation level subscriber in September 2021, you would have received the e-book, Creating...

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Hey Innovation subscribers – January’s e-book is here!

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Woo hoo! Welcome to the first e-book of 2025 – Formulating fun with hyaluronic acid (featuring Oleo HA)! Join me as we create a number of wonderful anhydrous products – gorgeous body & facial oils, lip scrubs, multi-purpose balms, and never-before-seen formulas for creating pressed facial serums (and modifications, if you don’t have this ingredient)....

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A short video on using SIMULGEL™️ EG by Lotioncrafter!

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A white plastic boat, shaped like a diamond, sits atop a mottled brown countertop. In it is a dollop of a creamy looking lotion.

I had to share this awesome video made by Jaimie, the awesome chemist at Lotioncrafter, demonstrating how simple and fun it is to make a lotion with SIMULGEL™️ EG (INCI: Sodium Acrylate / Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer & Isohexadecane & Polysorbate 80), an awesome, easy-to-use cold process emulsifier. Woo hoo, that takes about five minutes...

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Let’s make some oily gels in a Zoom workshop on Sunday, February 23, 2025! 

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Two jars on a black table. One has a yellow coloured gel in it. The other has a green-brown gel in it. These illustrate two oily gels that can be made with oily gellants

I’ve really missed our Zoom workshops, so let’s get them started again! Let’s make some oily gels in a Zoom workshop on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 11 am PST (Vancouver time). We’ll be making oily gels and gel-to-cream products using Sucragel, Sapogel, and sodium surfactin. It will run about two hours. We’ll meet the...

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