Creating a super-cooling hydrating glacial facial gel with Fision® Hydrate and Ceramide Complex (part one, the ingredients)

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I absolutely love using gels to create interesting new facial products that don’t contain a ton of oils that I can use on its own at the end of a very long mask-wearing day on its own or as part of a facial, eye, or “monkey line” sheet mask to soothe my very angry, rosacea-prone...

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Formulating Friday: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – facial moisturizers (week six)

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A white bottle with a label "SwiftCraftyMonkey" sits on a plate with a light blue line in the centre. A dab of yellow moisturizer shows off the colour of the final product.

Welcome back to the Formulating Friday lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). It’s the last week of this part of the series, and we’ll be making a low viscosity facial moisturizer with this emulsifier, along with the other ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list. (Click here...

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#alltheingredients: Plant Keratin (aka VegeKeratin) – hydrolyzed protein, hair active

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Plant Keratin, sometimes called VegeKeratin, (INCI:  Wheat Amino Acids, Soy Amino Acids, Arginine HCI, Serine, Threonine) is a plant-based combination amino acids for hair and skin products to increase hydration and condition. What does this do? It claims it can increase hair strength, increase hair elasticity, reduce breakage, reduce wet and dry combing forces, reduce...

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Newbie Tuesday: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – facial moisturizers (week six)

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Welcome back to the Newbie Tuesday introduction to lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). It’s the last week of this part of the series, and we’ll be making a low viscosity facial moisturizer with this emulsifier, along with the other ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list....

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#alltheingredients: NatraSmooth™ (facial & hair active, hydrating)

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A white jug with the name Natrasmooth on the label sits beside a shot glass with a clear, water white liquid. The liquid is the Natrasmooth ingredient.

I found this ingredient at Lotioncrafter, NatraSmooth™ (INCI: Water, Tremella Fuciformis Sporocarp (Snow Mushroom) Extract, Betaine, Glycerin), a nicely gelled liquid derived from snow mushroom (also called silver ear mushroom) as an anti-oxidant that works as an amazing humectant and skin and hair conditioner. It binds water to the skin and hair to work as...

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