Check what you have: Dry-Flo AF (INCI: Corn Starch Modified) and Dry-Flo TS (INCI: Tapioca Starch (and) Polymethylsilsesquioxane) – updated February 13, 2021

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In this post, Heela wrote to me to say: I have been trying to look for directions on how to use Dry-Flo TS in lotion to get rid of that “greasy” feeling. I read on your blog that you add it to the water phase. My lotions were coming out a bit weird and I went...

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Newbie Tuesday & Formulating Friday discussion time!

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A massive, huge, giant thank you to Monica, Tiffany, and Chris for the images you’re seeing in this post and in this series! Monica created the one in the header; Tiffany, the second photo with the coloured lotions and spatulae; and Chris, the third photo with the yellowy custardy lotions with sea buckthorn oil. They’ve been...

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Surfactants: Fatty acid isethionates (like sodium cocoyl isethionate or SCI) – updated February 12, 2021

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I do love the isethionates, found in the form of sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI) or ammonium cocoyl isethionate (ACI). The sodium version comes in prills, flakes, or noodles, while the ammonium version comes in liquid form at 30% active. If you look at this picture, the M+ signifies either sodium or ammonium, both of which...

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Q&A: How can we alter the colour of bubbles?

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In the Q&A, Rysle asked, I have a question about how can I make bubbles with different colour? What I mean is when we always make bath bomb or bath powder the bubble it come white I want to make a product that change the bubbles to different colour.  The short answer is that we...

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