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Newbie Tuesday: Creating hand & body lotions with Incroquat BTMS-50!

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Welcome back to this Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series in which we’ll be making a hand & body lotion, body butter or cream, and facial moisturizer using Incroquat BTMS-50, a cationic or positively charged emulsifier that can make all kinds of emulsions, including hair conditioners, thanks to its electrical charge. Previous posts & links...

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Q&A: Why can cationic and anionic ingredients be used together in solid shampoo bars?

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In this month’s Q&A, Melinda asked, Why can cationic and anionic ingredients be used in solid (shampoo) bars? Normally, we don’t want to combine anionic (negatively charged) or cationic (positively charged) ingredients together as they’re opposite charges and don’t play well together. But we can make them work because we don’t have all that annoying water...

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Newbie Tuesday & Formulating Friday, Incroquat BTMS-50 series: Let’s meet the emulsifier!

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Welcome to week one of this part of the Newbie Tuesday series in which we’ll be creating three formulas using Incroquat BTMS-50 – a hand & body lotion, a body butter that we’ll turn into a cream, and a facial moisturizer. As with the previous section in which we formulated with Polawax, emulsifying wax NF,...

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Welcome to November 2020!

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Can you believe it’s already November? It feels like this year has both sped by and been the longest ten months in the history of humankind. Yeah, I know my picture has candy corn in it, but let’s be honest, we’re still eating it on November 1st.  If you celebrate any of the upcoming holidays, … Read more