#alltheingredients:  ICE Silicone or Jeesperse® CPW-CG-Crosspolymer-G-02 (cold emulsifier) – updated August 4, 2021 with preservative chart

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Woo hoo! Another cold process emulsifier? Let’s take a look at Jeesperse® CPW-CG-Crosspolymer-G-02 (INCI: Cetyl alcohol, sodium polyacrylate, polysorbate 80, glyceryl stearate, dimethicone/divinyldimethicone/silsesquioxane crosspolymer) aka ICE Silicone at Making Cosmetics – to see what it’s all about, then make a product or two. We first met this one in my e-book from April 2018, Beyond...

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#alltheingredients: Ethylhexyl palmitate – Guerbet ester, low viscosity dimethicone substitute

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You can find the home page for the Guerbet ester series by clicking this link! I’ll update it every time we meet a new ester! I’ll be referring quite a lot to the the combining emollients series in which we learned how properties like viscosity, surface tension, saturation, molecule size, molecule weight, molecule shape, polarity, and...

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Esters: What the heck are Guerbet esters?

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If you want to start at the very beginning of the series on esters, check out the home page for esters that will be updated with every post. If you want to learn more about combining emollients, check out the home page for that series.  Now that we’re finished the combining emollients series, I thought we could take...

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Welcome to August 2021!

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Welcome to August! It’s the middle of the summer around here, and after last month’s Sunpocalypse, when temperatures reached 45˚C (113˚F) last month, I’m happy when it’s anything lower than 30˚C (86˚F), even though that’s still too high for me to play in my workshop, and I’m running out of loads of really vital things, … Read more

#alltheingredients: Natragem® S140 NP (INCI: Polyglyceryl-4 Laurate/Sebacate (and) Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Aqua) – solubilizer of oils into water, high HLB emulsifier

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I’ve been playing with this new, ECOCERT (naturally compliant) solubilizer of small amounts of fragrance oils, essential oils, oils, esters, and other emollients into water, gels, or alcohol/water based products, Natragem® S 140 NP (INCI: Polyglyceryl-4 Laurate/Sebacate (and) Polyglyceryl-6 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Aqua), Let’s take a peek at this! Natragem® S140 NP is a solubilizer of oil...

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