Susan Barclay-Nichols

More fun with the HLB system – a body butter recipe.

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All right, so we did a kinda basic recipe yesterday, let’s look at something more complicated…a body butter filled with various oils and esters and silicones.OUR MODIFIED BODY BUTTER RECIPEWATER PHASE42% water10% aloe vera liquid10% lavender or rose hydrosol2% sodium lactate OIL PHASE10% oils – 5% macadamia nut and 5% safflower oil15% butter of choice...

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A demonstration of HLB (updated)

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I’m going to take a lotion recipe you’ve probably seen before (in this post) and use this as a demonstration of how to use the HLB system to create an emulsifying system. Please click on this PDF so you can have the chart handy for the HLB values for the oil phase and emulsifiers. As...

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HLB or the hydrophilic-lipophilic balance system

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When we’re working with emulsification systems like e-wax or BTMS, we don’t think of how it’s going to emulsify our product. We just add the required amount and poof! – we have lotion. But if we want to create an emulsification system of our own, we need to turn to the HLB system for guidance!...

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A slightly more in depth look at emulsification (updated)

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In anticipation of a series of posts on the HLB system and lotions, here’s a post on emulsification. I know I’ve covered emulsions in the past, but I wanted to expand it a little bit here. What exactly is an emulsion? For the purposes of this discussion, I’m going to work with the oil-in-water lotion,...

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A couple of notes about acne, break outs, and sensitive skin

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A lot of us turn to making our own products because we suffer from acne or other skin problems or our skin is so sensitive, we can’t seem to use any commercial products without some degree of suffering. Let’s check out the definitions for various words we tend to use when we’re talking about skin...

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