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In our Zoom workshop last Sunday, we made the formula you can see in this week’s Newbie Tuesday post for hand & body lotion with Polawax, e-wax NF, Phytomulse, or Natragem EW. This will product a lotion with a pH between 5 to 6.5-ish, which is where we want it to be for our skin....
Welcome to part three of the Formulating Friday series in which we’ll be modifying the lotions we made in the Newbie Tuesday beginners’ part of this lotion series/course. Our emulsifier for the month of September are these ones – Polawax, Natragem EW, e-wax NF, or Phytomulse (almond, amaranth, chlorella, or coconut) – and this week’s formula...
Welcome to part of the Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion series/course in which we’ll be making lotions using four different emulsifiers over the next four months. September is all about these emulsifiers – Polawax, Natragem EW, e-wax NF, or Phytomulse (almond, amaranth, chlorella, or coconut) – and we’ll be making a different type of lotion over the next...
Woo! Welcome to the part two of the ingredients we’ll be using in the advanced part of the Newbie Tuesday series, which will be called Formulating Friday after these two ingredient posts. The idea is that we’ll make the Newbie Tuesday formula on Tuesday, then alter it with all kinds of interesting ingredients later in the...
Woo hoo! It’s the first Zoom workshop of the September, and our topic is making a hand & body lotion using Polawax, part one of my Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion making series! We’ll be making this lotion and talking about the different ways we could combine emollients to create different sensory experiences. Check out the...