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You might remember our series to figure out what a polar oil might be – part one, hydrocarbons and part two, polar oils – as we struggled to make that darned TKB Thickening clay work. This was supposed to be part three at the time, but we went on holiday and the computer died and...
Welcome back! We took a look at part one of this duplication process the other day by analyzing the ingredient list, then we took a bit of an aside to look at fruit essences. Today, let’s see if we can’t create a base formula for this product! We established that despite the name – Sisley...
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There are all kinds of botanical waters we can use in our products, and these fruit essences (aka distillate water) are a lovely way to get all the awesome goodness and fragrances of fruit without the bright or dark colours. A fruit essence is a “highly aromatic water recovered at the pre-heater stage of the...
I’m working on the ingredient list for the upcoming Newbie Tuesday naturally compliant lotion making series, and thought I’d ask you for some ideas about your favourite oils! I’ve chosen a very light oil – fractionated coconut oil – and some light oils – including rice bran, sweet almond, kukui nut – but I need … Read more