#alltheingredients: Quinoa extract (water soluble)

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Let’s meet another awesome extract I’ll be using in my classes at Windy Point Soap Making Supplies this weekend and the next, quinoa extract (water soluble), INCI: Glycerin (and) Water (and) Chenopodium Quinoa Seed Extract (and) Sodium Benzoate (and) Potassium Sorbate This ingredient has all kinds of neat properties – including working as an anti-oxidant, film...

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#alltheingredients: Manuka honey extract (humectant)

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I’ve been playing with Manuka honey extract – INCI: Honey extract (and) butylene glycol or INCI: Water (and) Glycerin (and) Honey Extract (and) Sodium Benzoate (and) Citric Acid – for the last few years, but I haven’t shared the ingredient write up anywhere but the Shiny Things, volume 2 e-zine. Let’s take a look a...

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#thievery

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Thievery is rampant in our so-called community, and it’s time for it to stop. It takes more work than I’ve ever shared here to get even one formula right. For someone to take countless hours of work and all the expenses that go with ordering supplies, experimenting, learning, studying for university, buying equipment, and so … Read more

#alltheingredients: Sodium phytate (chelating ingredient)

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Jen from Lotioncrafter was kind enough to send me some sodium phytate to play with over the summer.  Sodium phytate is a water soluble chelating ingredient we can add to our products at 0.05% to 0.5% to bind with metal ions to keep the ingredients from reacting with them. These metal ions can precipitate in...

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#alltheingredients: Euxyl K 703 (INCI:Phenoxyethanol (and) Benzoic Acid (and) Dehydroacetic Acid)

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As we meet the preservatives in the Euxyl series, this PDF might come in handy… Euxyl K 703 (INCI:Phenoxyethanol (and) Benzoic Acid (and) Dehydroacetic Acid) is considered a replacement for Optiphen ND, which has the same INCI. (Optiphen ND) It’s a broad spectrum preservative that we can add at 0.4% to 1.2% to the cool down...

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