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#alltheingredients: Dimethicone – soft, silky, smooth, velvety, matte, non-draggy silicone

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Dimethicone - a thick, clear liquid - is being poured from a bottle into a plastic shot glass on a brown tabletop

It’s been a while since we enjoyed a deep dive into dimethicone, one of my favourite silicones for hair and skin care products. I’ll be starting a series on making hair conditioners without silicones shortly, and thought it was time we learned a bit more about this awesome silicone before we tried replacing it with...

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#alltheingredients: Cyclomethicone – light, volatile silicone

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It’s been a while since we enjoyed a deep dive into cyclomethicone, one of my favourite silicones for hair and skin care products. I’ll be starting a series on making hair conditioners without silicones shortly, and thought it was time we learned a bit more about this awesome silicone before we tried replacing it with...

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Creating a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer (part eleven) – Using Incroquat BTMS-50 as the emulsifier, the formula

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Welcome back to another bonus part of this series on making a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer that I’ve designed to apply before biking to protect my skin from the elements and to work well under my sunscreen. This is part eleven in which we’ll be making the formula using Incroquat BTMS-50....

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Creating a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer (part ten) – Adapting it to use Incroquat BTMS-50 as the emulsifier 

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A plastic beaker contains a white creamy lotion, it's a summer lotion with babassu oil, and it feels very nice. Not greasy at all.

Welcome back to another bonus part of this series on making a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer that I’ve designed to apply before biking to protect my skin from the elements and to work well under my sunscreen. In the first part of the series, we made a formula using Jeesperse® ICE-T...

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Creating a vanilla and cornsilk protecting facial moisturizer (part nine) – Adapting it to use Jeesperse® CPW-CG-Crosspolymer-G-02 (aka ICE Silicone) – the formula! 

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Welcome back to an additional part of this series on making a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer that I’ve designed to apply before biking to protect my skin from the elements and to work well under my sunscreen. In this addendum, we’ll modify the formula to work with Jeesperse® CPW-CG-Crosspolymer-G-02 or ICE Silicone...

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