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Hey $10 subscribers, the e-book – Waterless beauty: Creating facial oils & serums – is here!

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Cover of the e-book, Waterless beauty: Facial oils and serums, issue 9 for 2025. Issued in December 2025. It shows a tree with a clear dropper bottle nestled in the leaves.

Woo hoo! My new e-book is here – Waterless beauty: Creating facial oils & serums (part three of the series) – where you’ll find 14 formulas along with so many charts and informational articles so you can follow along or make your own blends from scratch! Oh, and there’s a whipped butter formula in there...

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Emollients you will love: Apricot kernel oil (INCI: Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil) – full profile with all the charts!

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This profile is part of a project I’ve been working on for the last 18 months or so – my oils encyclopedia with all the information you might want to know about liquid oils, solid oils, and butters. I’m sharing this today as I’d love some feedback on what you think before I get into...

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So here it is – Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

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It’s Christmas morning here at the Barclay Nichols’s household, and I’ve been absolutely spoiled by Raymond and my friends! Sasja is wearing her new Christmas dress, and we’re eating apple turnovers while watching the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Christmas marathon. Liked couldn’t be better. We hope you’re having a wonderful day full of happiness, joy, … Read more

Chemistry of our oils: What are tocochromanols, the category in which we find tocopherols or tocotrienols? How do they work as great anti-oxidants? 

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As I’m writing up my scarily huge oils, solid oils, and butters reference e-book and working on individual emollient profiles, I’ve realized I need to define a few things, so let’s take a look at tocochromanols, the category of compounds in which we find tocopherols and tocotrienols and other lovely anti-oxidants. Before we start, here...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – creating an awesome facial moisturizer with actives (part 9)

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Welcome back to this series, which I think is the last part before we start the new series in January for Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400? If you’d like to see another post with a wrap-up or to ask questions or to share your formulas, let me know in the comments or email me at...

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