Lotion making: Altering the ingredients in a basic lotion (an infographic)

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I wanted to share this with you again to help you get started lotion making! With this formula and the instructions on how to make it, you can make dozens – if not hundreds – of variations to find the lotion you love the best! This is such a foolproof structure for a lotion!  Check out...

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Innovation subscribers – check out this coupon from Windy Point Soap Making Supplies!

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Are we lucky or what? Once again this month, Windy Point Soap Making Supplies in Calgary is offering you, my lovely readers, a coupon code to get all kinds of wonderful things for less! Want a few ideas on what you can buy there? If you’re interested in making the 10 minute lotions with cold emulsifiers I...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part three, using 1% emulsifier formulas)

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A white blob of lotion sits on a glass watch glass with a black background

Welcome to part three of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be making a 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG. The way I’m planning this series, we’ll start off by meeting the emulsifiers – which we did last week – then I’ll introduce a new base...

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Chemistry Thursday: Esters – the rest of ’em, part 36

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A cup of clear liquid sits on the edge of the metal plate on a digital scale. This is Cation G16S

Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s take a look at the rest of the esters we haven’t covered so far – some are emollients, some are emulsifiers, all are awesome! An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a...

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Demythifying the myths: Fancy oils are not sensitive to heat – you can put them in the heated oil phase

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A beaker of yellow oil sits on a digital scale beside two clear bottles with clear caps that contain the same oil.

I see this comment all the time – can I add my fancy oil (like rosehip, evening primrose, borage, raspberry, etc.) to the cool down phase of the emulsion so I don’t hurt it? – and I thought I’d write something about it. Here’s the quick summary of this post: Oils are not heat sensitive...

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