Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part one). 

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Woo hoo! Welcome to part one of this new Formulating Friday series/course! I’m so unbelievably excited to share these awesome ingredients with you. I know you’re going to have great fun! These emulsifiers are some of my favourite ingredients as I can make a lotion in less time than it takes me to gather my...

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Chemistry Thursday: Glycol esters and sugar (sucrose) esters, part 35

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our look at esters by investigating those that work as emulsifiers. We’ll get into some emulsion theory, information on the HLB system, then get into those esters! Today we’re taking a look at two more categories of esters – glycol esters, like glycol distearate,...

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Welcome to October 2025!

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Making dinner with one bowl of potatoes; one bowl of green beans. Both are grown in our garden!

Woo hoo! It’s slowly becoming my favourite time of year – autumn going into winter. Today is our little Sasja’s ninth birthday – she’s already sleeping off her small beef jerky treats – and Raymond’s is next weekend on the 11th (Thanksgiving long week)! We’re learning how to make mozzarella cheese this weekend with the … Read more

Innovation level subscribers: The September 2025 e-book is here – Foot care your feet will love

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Woo hoo! The new e-book is here – Foot care your feet will love: Formulas for creams, gels, lotion bars, scrub bars, and so much more! In this massive e-book, you’ll learn to make all kinds of amazing foot care formulas – from 10 minute creams and cooling gels, to lotion bars and scrub bars,...

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Let’s try a few different preservatives in a hand & body lotion formula to see how we would adapt them to not lose viscosity – Optiphen Plus formulas (part four)

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I thought I’d share some formulas to demonstrate what we covered in our short series on adding ingredients to the cool down phase of emulsions. In part one, we looked at why we added hydrolyzed proteins, mixed tocopherols, actives & cosmeceuticals, fragrance oils, and essential oils to the cool down phase along with some emulsion...

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