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Welcome to November, the first day of the Christmas season if the shops around me are any judge! Holy moly, I love Christmas and everything that it represents, but we almost missed celebrating Hallowe’en for all the fruit cakes and German cookies and candy canes lining the aisles. The leaves are turning all manner of … Read more
Welcome back to part three of this short series on creating a cold process creamy facial cleansing milk with Sensolene® or isopropyl isostearate (IPIS) in which we’ll be finishing up the formula we created using Jeesperse® ICE-T-LB-T-NS. Find part one by clicking here. Find part two by clicking here! We altered the emulsifier, emollients, and preservatives...
For October 2021 subscribers only. You can buy the e-book from the store if you weren’t a subscriber for the month of October 2021. This month it’s all about making more naturally compliant, natural, or organic palm-free oily gel formulas using Sapogel Q (also found as NatraSap Q™), a unique oil gelling ingredient composed of...
We’ve been having some fun creating formulas with Sensolene® – so far we’ve made an anhydrous facial serum and a creamy chamomile & aloe vera facial cleansing milk with Sensolene® with a few different emulsifiers – so I thought we could modify the latter formula to use cold process emulsifiers and a few different emollients....
We met this awesome ingredient, Sensolene® (INCI: Ethylhexyl olivate), a Guerbet ester, a light, non-greasy emollient that also has some cleansing properties, a few weeks ago, and I thought I’d share some formulas originally published in my e-zine, Shiny Things, Volume 2, so you can start formulating with it. Creamy facial cleansing milk with Sensolene®...