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Q&A quickie: When do we add the “cool down phase” to conditioner bars?

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I’m getting a lot of questions about this, which makes me think you’re all making conditioner bars out there! Yay, they’re so much fun! The short answer is that you add the “cool down phase” to the heated conditioner phase after you remove it from the heat, mix, then pour it into moulds. In my...

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Hey $10 subscribers! The new e-book is here – The big book of preservatives, part two – The charts

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For March 2021, $10 subscribers only… The second part of this series we started last month on preservatives is here – The big book of preservatives, part two – The charts! I’m so excited to share this with you to help you make easier and more informed choices about the preservatives you’re using in your...

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Facial products: Anhydrous facial serum with squalane & carrot tissue oil with l-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) – formula

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This might be the most popular formula I’ve shared with friends and testers over the last year, my vitamin packed facial serum with squalane & carrot tissue oil. We first made it during the Sunday, July 19th, 2020, Zoom workshop on solubility, and I fear the formula might be lost in the links for that...

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#alltheingredients: Dodecane – super light, fast spreading hydrocarbon emollient

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Dodecane is a very lightweight, natural, plant-derived, non-polar emollient (hydrocarbon) we can use anywhere we might use oils – lotions, facial moisturizers, lip balms, colour cosmetics, facial sera, eye care products, hair care, anhydrous products. It’s a great pigment wetter and helps disperse pigments in colour cosmetics. In hair care products, both rinse-off and leave-on, it...

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Creating facial moisturizers with active ingredients: Vitamin C, 3-glyceryl ascorbate

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This post and formula is kinda an extension of last week’s Formulating Friday in which we made a facial moisturizer with the emulsifier Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 as we’re modifying those formulas, but you don’t have to be following the series to make these. If you’d like to learn more about each ingredient and why we’re using them...

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