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Innovation level subscribers: The July 2025 e-book is here – Waterless beauty: Creating body oils

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Woo hoo! Welcome to this coupon page for this month’s e-book – Waterless beauty: Creating body oils! In this massive e-book, you’ll learn how to make all kinds of anhydrous moisturizers with information on how to customize them for your preferences, skin type, and oils you have in your workshop. We’re also using the gorgeous...

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Chemistry Thursday: Polyunsaturated fatty acids – alpha-linolenic, gamma-linolenic, punicic, and stearidonic acids (C18:3 – C18:4), part 27

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry series! I hope you’re enjoying it so far. I know I am! Let’s talk more about carboxylic acids, specifically the fatty acids we encounter over and over again in our liquid oils, solid oils, butters, and waxes. This week, we’re getting into polyunsaturated C18:3, and C18:4 fatty...

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Let’s make a 10 minute rinse-off conditioner with all kinds of humectants, botanicals, conditioners, proteins, and more: Part one, what’s a conditioner, which one will we use, and a base formula

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A photo of a formula in progress. A container with white conditioner - already emulsified - sits on a counter. It has an immersion mixer and thermometer in it. There's a second container, which contains the cool down phase of the conditioner, beside it in a plastic beaker.

Let’s create an awesome conditioner into which we can add all kinds of wonderful ingredients, including the awesome new-to-us humectant XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract). We’ll be choosing our conditioning emulsifier, then some awesome actives, proteins, botanical extracts, emollients, and other ingredients, customizing it for our hair...

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Chemistry Thursday: Carboxylic acids – polyunsaturated long chain fatty acid, linoleic acid (C18:2), cloud or titer points, creating charts, and sensory characteristics of fatty acids, part 26

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Chemistry: Carboxylic acids – polyunsaturated long chain fatty acid, linoleic acid (C18:2), cloud or titer points, creating charts, and sensory characteristics of fatty acids, part 26 Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry series! I hope you’re enjoying it so far. I know I am! Let’s talk more about carboxylic acids, specifically the fatty...

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#alltheingredients: XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract) – hair and scalp active

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XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract) is thick, odourless, non-sticky, non-tacky yellow liquid, a natural combination of humectants and brown algae extract that offers all kinds of awesome properties to our hair and scalp care products. It’s like AQUAXYL™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Xylitol) with the addition...

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