Newbie Tuesday series: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – part one, let’s meet the emulsifier and learn how to use it!

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Welcome to week one of our beginners’ lotion making series/course, Newbie Tuesday, for 2021! This will also serve as the first post for the Formulating Friday more advanced lotion making series/course as we learn all about the emulsifier we’ll be using in this part of the series/course, Simulsol 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate),...

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Combining emollients: Part nine, let’s take a look at some emollients!

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We made it! We’re on part nine, the last part of this series (for now). Today, let’s take a look at some specific emollients to predict what they might be like when it comes to spreadability, skin feel, viscosity, and all the other factors we’ve investigated throughout this series. Click here to see the home page for...

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Combining emollients: Review sheet for the entire series (section 8, part two)

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Let’s update our review page to see what we’ve learned so far so we can start playing with our emollients! (You can find the home page for this combining emollients series by clicking here!) This one is updated with everything in the series to the end of part eight. The larger the spreading value of...

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Welcome to January 2021!

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Welcome to the world of tomorrow! It’s mostly like the world of yesterday except it has a “1” at the end, but it’s still cause for celebration when the celestial odometer rolls over, eh? Welcome to the first day of the first month of the year that we’ll best this horrible virus and be allowed … Read more