SwiftCraftyMonkey

When I use aloe vera in my creations, I mean the liquid not the gel. Or you could make your own liquid with the 99X concentrated aloe vera (don’t forget to preserve it once you’ve made it). But you definitely want to use the liquid. If you don’t want to use silicones, don’t. Use an oil in...

As you’ve seen over the last two days, making some small changes in the water, cool down, and oil phases can make a big difference to our products. So let’s take a look at a few other small changes we could make. Using beeswax will make your product feel a little waxier, but used in...

Yesterday, we took a look at making some small changes to the water phase to create a more humectant-y product. Today, let’s take a a look at making small changes to the oil phase! Keep in mind that if you change the oil phase by increasing the oil amount, you need to modify the emulsifier...

Yesterday we took a look at how adding 3% of a fatty alcohol or fatty acid (like cetyl alcohol or stearic acid) could change the thickness of our lotion, and I’m sometimes surprised at how adding a titch of something can change a lotion so much! So I thought we’d take a look at how...

I mentioned yesterday that increasing your thickening agents – like butters, fatty alcohols, and fatty acids – can make a lotion into a cream. Let’s take a look at a 60% water lotion without thickeners, then consider what it would be like with different thickeners. Here’s the recipe from which I will be working for...