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What do you want to make for the holiday seasons?

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Holiday season is upon us with all kinds of wonderful days during which we can exchange presents, starting with Diwali this Monday, October 24th. Okay, let’s be honest, every day is a great day to give presents, even today, which is Mole Day, celebrating Avogadro’s number, a number in chemistry designating 6.02 x 1023 of...

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Q&A: Can we use Sepigel 305™ to make a water-in-silicone cream?

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In the monthly Q&A, Tien asked, Hello Susan. I have tried to make W/Si (water-in-silicone) cream following the formula below. Texture can bring silky feeling when apply to skin, non-greasy. But the problem is that leaves many white spots on skin and cannot penetrate. Tien’s formula!  Phase A: Cyclopentasiloxane 10% Isopropyl Palmitate 2% Hydrogenated Polyisobutene...

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#alltheingredients: Sepigel 305™ (INCI: Polyacrylamide (and) C13-14 Isoparaffin (and) Laureth-7) – cold process liquid emulsifier

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Sepigel 305™ (aka Cosmagel 305, CC Sepgel 305) is a translucent to opaque, white-ish, pre-neutralized, non-ionic liquid that works as an oil-in-water emulsifier at 2% to 5% or a thickener for aqueous products at as low as 0.1%. It creates what are called cream-gels, which is one that has a gelling agent along with an...

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Let’s make a pumpkin spice themed anhydrous butter!

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Let’s make a version of a whipped anhydrous body butter you can pumpkin spice up with a variety of different ingredients! We’ll start with a basic formula with three variations with instructions, then we can look at how we might alter it to meet our theme! The formula! Weigh the oils and butter in a...

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For the love of all that is good and holy, please don’t make this: Pumpkin spice body butter!

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A friend alerted me to this absolutely atrocious recipe the other day, and I couldn’t not share it with you! This is an excellent example of a really poorly created recipe – or as I like to call it a “terrible recipe” – from a DIY page that was shared by a supplier – argh,...

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