Innovation level subscribers: The June 2025 e-book is here – Waterless beauty: Creating hair & beard oils

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Woo hoo! I’m so excited to share my new monthly e-book, Waterless beauty: Creating hair & beard oils, in which you’ll learn not only how to make these highly customizable formulas, but you’ll learn how to make your own from scratch! Waterless beauty is taking off this year, and these all-natural, anhydrous (without water) hair...

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Chemistry Thursday: Carboxylic acids – medium chain fatty acids (part 22) 

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In today’s post, part 22, we’re meeting medium chain fatty acids – caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid, and lauric acid – all of which we encounter regularly in cosmetic chemistry. An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a break or take...

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Emulsifiers you will love: Sodium stearoyl glutamate (aka Eumulgin SG) – naturally compliant emulsifier: Introduction to the ingredient (part one)

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A beaker with a white powder - an emulsifier called Eumulgin - sits on the edge of a digital scale.

As we’re working towards a few different duplicates of the Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, let’s take a look at one of the three emulsifiers*, Eumulgin SG (INCI: Sodium stearoyl glutamate), a strongly anionic (negatively charged) emulsifier that offers a light or “nude” skin sensations, creating non-greasy, non-waxy, emulsions. *The emulsifiers in the Bum Bum cream...

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Check out the new page: Emulsifiers in alphabetical order – all 53 of them!

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Hey, everyone! Hope you’re enjoying the second day of summer/winter where you live! It’s been rainy here the last few days, so our new green beans, celery, and potato plants are growing like silly after a really hot spell last week. My new page, emulsifiers in alphabetical order is now live, so you can search...

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Chemistry: Carboxylic acids – short chain acids (part 21)

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Welcome to part 21 of this series on learning chemistry! At this point of the series, we’ve met a number of molecules – alkanes (single bond), alkenes (double bond), alkynes (triple bond), and alcohols (have at least one OH group). Today, let’s meet carboxylic acids – small and medium chain ones – that have an...

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