Formulating Fundamentals Friday: How thickeners affect the properties of a lotion – fatty alcohol

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Welcome back to Formulating Fundamentals Friday! I’ve added a new section of the blog I’ve entitled Formulating Fundamentals where you’ll find these posts along with the other ones I’ve written about defining cosmetic chemistry terms. I also encourage you to have the glossary open as we work through this series as a reference. In part...

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Are you taking the free Learn Cosmetic Formulation course yet? Module 4 opens this Friday!

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How far along are you in the free Learn Cosmetic Formulation Course I’m offering with Perry Romanowski of Chemists’ Corner and Jane Barber of Making Skincare? If you haven’t signed up yet, don’t worry! You can join us at any time! And it’s completely and utterly free! Click the link to learn more!  This Friday,...

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Pro tip: Allantoin goes into the heated water phase – not the cool down phase – of emulsions

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On January 28 on this blog’s Facebook page, I shared the links to the post on allantoin from January 17th here on the blog, and an interesting discussion sprung up, which I thought I’d share here and add more of my thoughts and links because all of a sudden, people are using allantoin in the...

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Formulating a soothing botanical anti-itch spray for a very dry winter!

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I live in a pretty humid part of the world – about 100 km east of Vancouver, B.C. – but there are a few weeks every year where it gets so dry, I swear I lose 10 pounds in water weight! We have two humidifiers going around the clock right now, but my skin definitely...

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Welcome to February 2019!

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Wow, January flew by so fast, I barely noticed it was here! Thanks for joining me here on the blog for another month! I’ve been doing a lot of work for the free Learn Cosmetic Formulation Course we’re offering right now, and I realized how much fun I was having creating it and how important … Read more