Newbie Tuesday: Making naturally compliant lotions – an update to the schedule

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Hi everyone! I’m wondering if there’s any interest in re-starting the Newbie Tuesday lotion making series/course for Tuesday, April 14th with hand lotion # 3? I know we’re all going through some pretty heavy collective trauma right now. Whether you’re out of work, working from home, or working on the front lines, this pandemic is...

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Viscosity: How to measure it?

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Let’s take a minute to talk about viscosity. What is viscosity? The easy way to think about viscosity is about the thickness of a fluid. Water is thin, so it’s low viscosity, while glycerin is thick and has higher viscosity. I liked this definition that “Viscosity is resistance to flow” (reference), that more viscous things require...

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10 minute lotions: Strawberry & honey yogurt parfait with Viscoptima SE

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A few weeks ago, we met one of my favourite new cold process oil-in-water emulsifiers, ViscOptima SE (INCI: Sodium polyacrylate, ethylhexyl cocoate, PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate, polysorbate 20), which you might find as GelMaker RHEO from Making Cosmetics. Next, we reviewed the ingredients we might use in a super hydrating, cold process, strawberry smoothie cream...

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Simple esters: Creating lip balms with esters (part three) – testing the jars

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So far in this series we created a formula for a lip balm in which we can try different simple, solid esters, colours, and flavours, and then we created that formula and tested the lip balm in tubes. Today, let’s see how they perform in jars! Reviewing the lip balm in jars!  These jars contain...

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