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Creating creamy facial cleansing milks with Sensolene® or isopropyl isostearate (IPIS), part two – creating a cold process emulsion with Jeesperse® ICE-T-LB-T-NS (part one of two)

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We’ve been having some fun creating formulas with Sensolene® – so far we’ve made an anhydrous facial serum and a creamy chamomile & aloe vera facial cleansing milk with Sensolene® with a few different emulsifiers – so I thought we could modify the latter formula to use cold process emulsifiers and a few different emollients....

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Creating creamy facial cleansing milks with Sensolene® or isopropyl isostearate (IPIS), part one – creating a warm process emulsion with Simulgreen 18-2, Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165, Polawax, or Montanov 68 MB. 

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We met this awesome ingredient, Sensolene® (INCI: Ethylhexyl olivate), a Guerbet ester, a light, non-greasy emollient that also has some cleansing properties, a few weeks ago, and I thought I’d share some formulas originally published in my e-zine, Shiny Things, Volume 2, so you can start formulating with it. Creamy facial cleansing milk with Sensolene®...

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Creating a vitamin & botanical extract packed anhydrous facial serum with squalane and tropical fruit blend OS (formula)

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On October 22nd, we met this gorgeous, decadent tropical fruit blend OS, an oil soluble blend of five tropical fruits, including coconut, kakadu plum, passionfruit, blueberry, and banana used at 1% to 10% in anhydrous products – those without water, like whipped shea butter or lip balms – or in the oil phase of an...

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Discussion: Recall of seriously contaminated room spray with gemstones!

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I shared this post originally on my Facebook page for this site – which you can find as @SwiftCraftyMonkey on Facebook or Instagram – but thought it was such an important topic, I’d share it here too!  The article from Gizmodo – Walmart aromatherapy spray linked to mystery outbreak of a deadly tropical disease, recall...

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#alltheingredients: Tropical fruit blend OS – oil soluble botanical fruit extract

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Join me today as we take a look at Tropical fruit blend OS, an oil soluble combination of 4% each coconut, kakadu plum, passionfruit, blueberry, and banana in sunflower oil (80%) – INCI: Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil & Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract & Terminalia Ferdinandiana Fruit Extract & Passiflora Incarnata Fruit Extract &...

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