SwiftCraftyMonkey

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Let’s analyze the process of emulsion (video plus formula, instructions, and more)! 

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When is an emulsion “emulsified”? Can we see this process happening? We can, and we’ll be doing that with the help of a few videos I’ve created! What you’ll see in this post is the video a gorgeous thickened lotion formula taken during a lotion making class at Voyageur Soap & Candle using Ritamulse SCG...

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Snowmageddon, day two: The Ensnowening!

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SNOW DAY! Day two of Snowmageddon in the Fraser Valley! It’s more than one Sasja high! Time to get into the workshop and make some super awesome winter products. What’re your favourite winter ingredients or products? I love love love allantoin at 0.5%, always in the heated phase at 50°C (122°F)! No lower or you’ll...

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#alltheingredients: AQUAXYL™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Xylitol) – an awesome, natural humectant!

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Brown bottle with label of AQUAXYL™ with a cup filled with a slightly yellow liquid in a small plastic cup

AQUAXYL™ is a thick, syrupy, non-sticky, natural humectant – an ingredient that hydrates hair and skin – derived from natural sugars found in corn and wheat. They call it a “sugar complex” because the components are or are derived from xylitol, a sugar alcohol. Let’s meet this interesting humectant! Before we start! You can learn...

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Let’s talk about temperature: How cold affects our ingredients and products!

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A collage of four photos. Upper left shows the temperature is -17°C. The upper right shows a bottle of yellow body wash. The lower left hand photo shows three bottles of lotion with different coloured cap with a thermometer. The lower right shows two bottles upside down, the contents frozen.

We talk a lot about the importance of heat in our products – Get a bloody thermometer already! Equipment review – but let’s talk a bit about the impact of the cold! It’s so cold!  It’s super cold where I live right now – -17˚C (1.4˚F), but with the wind chill, it feels like -26˚C (-14.8˚F)...

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Chemistry: The chemistry of humectants – water binding, hydrogen bonding, polarity, osmosis, and so much more!

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Before we meet a new humectant, AQUAXYL™, let’s take a look at how humectants work! Before we start… Take a look at my humungous humectants section of this site, found under the “ingredients” tab in the menu bar. What does it mean that humectants have “water binding” ability?  Humectants are hygroscopic, meaning they draw water...

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