Potential duplication of Saje Psoria Ease Healing Treatment Lotion (part one)

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While she was Christmas shopping, our wonderful daughter, Emrys, ventured into Saje, a “wellness shop” that carries all manner of lotions and potions that’s just opened up in a mall near us. Her boyfriend suggested they buy a lotion called Saje Psoria Ease Healing Treatment Lotion, but she wanted to make it instead! Woo! Let’s get...

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Formulating Fundamentals Friday: Altering the viscosity by altering the oil phase

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Welcome to this new series I’m calling Formulating Fundamentals Friday where I’ll be sharing all kinds of things I hope you’ll find useful in learning how to formulate your own products. If this is all completely new to you, check out the Beginners! Start here! section of the blog.  Last week, I introduced you to...

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Video from Chemists’ Corner: Fear marketing and cosmetics

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Check out this video from Perry of Chemists’ Corner about the use of fear marketing in cosmetics. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it I’m honoured to be presenting a free beginners’ formulating course with him and Jane Barber of Making Skincare. Check it out on our course site, Learn Cosmetic Formulation! ...

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Q&A: Are there oils we shouldn’t freeze? Oils and titer points, surfactants and cloud points

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Quite a few times, Marta has asked this question, and I’ve been remiss in answering it. She posed it again in the Discussion: How do you decide what to make? What about mulitifunctional products? How do you store and inventory your stuff? and shared what she heard from Lotioncrafter. I emailed Lotioncrafter to ask why the...

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Thought for the day: How not to store dangerous chemicals in your workshop!

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Thought for the day: It’s not a good idea to store your sodium hydroxide (lye) or potassium hydroxide with your humectants, which draw water from the atmosphere. Doing inventory in my workshop today, we found a plastic box with a ton of humectants like propanediol 1,3, glycerin, sodium PCA, sodium lactate, urea, and Hydrovance all...

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