Subscribers’ Exclusive: Introduction to chemistry course! 

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I’m so excited to share with you the new course I’ve created exclusively for the subscribers of this blog! Click here to learn more about the new introduction to chemistry course! Let’s start at the beginning by learning about atoms, ions, and molecules, and by the end of unit 8, you’ll have the basics down!...

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#alltheingredients: TKB Thickening clay – part four, version 2

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I’m doing my best to work with this new ingredient, TKB Trading’s Thickening Clay (INCI: Quaternium-90 Sepiolite (and) Quaternium-90 Montmorillonite). So far I tried a few suggestions and formulas from TKB Trading that didn’t work out so well, and yesterday, I tried a formula I found online, which separated over time. VERSION 2 It was...

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#alltheingredients: TKB Thickening clay – part three, version 1

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The suggestion and recipes shared by TKB Trading for this thickening clay didn’t work for me, so I thought I’d go on a quest for other formulas I could try at home to succeed with this ingredient. I found a formula that called for fractionated coconut oil and isopropyl myristate (IPM) as the oils with 3%...

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#alltheingredients: TKB Thickening clay (INCI: Quaternium-90 Sepiolite (and) Quaternium-90 Montmorillonite) – part two

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Welcome back from the aside on polar oils and isododecane! Let’s take a look at working with this ingredient! To recap the series so far… Potential duplication of Tarte Frxxxtion Exfoliating Stick (part one) Practice your process: Choose the right preservative for the job #alltheingredients: Thickening clay (part one) Chemistry: What the heck are polar oils?...

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Let’s talk pets with Melinda! Formulating Safe Pet Products: Canine Cosmetology: Part four, carrier oils & butters

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Making handmade pet products offers us the ability to create formulations based on what we have easily available to us, which for most of us, are ingredients we already use to create our own products.  But is it safe?  There are actually a surprising amount of ingredients that we use in human product formulation that...

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