Weekday Wonderings: Substituting humectants, using fresh aloe, and using stabilizers with emulsions

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As I mentioned, I’m doing my best to respond to many of your comments, so I’ve gone back three weeks to see what interests you! I’m responding to the questions you’ve posted in the Let’s formulate: Chamomile & aloe botanical summer time body butter posts at the moment. We looked at the reasons for making whipped...

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Formulating tips & techniques: Substituting oils, butters, and esters for other oils, butters, and esters

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In this post, Let’s formulate: Chamomile & aloe botanical summer time body butter (formula), Andrea asked: Can I leave isopropyl myristate (IPM) out (don’t have any) and add a different oil? Or just leave it out? The short answer is yes, you can substitute it. The longer answer is that unless I indicate otherwise in...

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Weekday Wonderings: Why make an emulsified body butter over a whipped butter?

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I used to do a thing on the old blog I called Weekend Wonderings where I’d find comments you’d made over the previous week and share them in a post. I stopped doing it as there were so few comments on the old blog and a lot of them were things that had been said...

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Q&A: Creating conditioners that add volume and retain curls? Creating rinse off conditioners with stearamidopropyl dimethylamine – a few variations

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Yesterday, we took a look at how to make another rinse off conditioner with stearamidopropyl dimethylamine. Today, let’s look at a few variations on this formula so you can modify it for your hair type. If you have dry hair, you’ll want to include humectants and emollients in your version. Glycerin can be a great...

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Here’s some news about updated links, condtioner bars, panthenol, and mixers

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So many of the links are working now as Raymond figured out a short cut to update loads of them at the same time. Some might still be broken as there’s difference between how Blogger created links and how WordPress does them, so if you find a broken link, please share that with us and...

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