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Newbie Tuesday: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – Body butters! (Week four)

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Welcome back to the Newbie Tuesday introduction to lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). Today, we’ll be making a thicker, more moisturizing, more occlusive body butter with this emulsifier along with the ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list (click here for more information). Click here for...

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Creating foamy, bubbly, lathery™ facial cleansing grains: Choosing surfactants (part two)

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Yesterday, we took a look at the formula for a foamy, bubbly, lathery™ cleansing grains with botanicals and powdered surfactants and vitamins and so much more. Today, let’s take a look at the ingredients and why I used what I used! Choosing your surfactants! The first thing to consider are the powdered surfactants you’ll use...

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Creating foamy, bubbly, lathery™ facial cleansing grains: The formula (part one)

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I created these formulas back in 2018 and shared them in my e-book, It’s not easy being green (part one), back in 2019, then taught it in my classes at Windy Point Soap Making Supplies later that year. I love these powdered skin cleansers, and was a bit shocked when I realized I hadn’t shared...

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Tips & techniques: Quick look at active surfactant matter (ASM)!

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What’s active surfactant matter (ASM)? This is the percentage of the surfactant as presented, the actual foamy, bubbly, lathery™ surfactant in a liquid or solid ingredient. Liquid products can range from 10% active to 60% active, but most fall in the 25% to 40% range. The rest of the ingredients will consist of water and...

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Check what you have: Dry-Flo AF (INCI: Corn Starch Modified) and Dry-Flo TS (INCI: Tapioca Starch (and) Polymethylsilsesquioxane) – updated February 13, 2021

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In this post, Heela wrote to me to say: I have been trying to look for directions on how to use Dry-Flo TS in lotion to get rid of that “greasy” feeling. I read on your blog that you add it to the water phase. My lotions were coming out a bit weird and I went...

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