Some thoughts on what you could do for a cucumber body butter – anhydrous whipped butters

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Let’s say the horrible recipe we met Saturday for a homemade cucumber body butter sounded appealing to you, but you don’t want it to separate or become contaminated in a few days, what could you do? If you wanted to make an anhydrous or non-water containing whipped butter with just oils and butters, you could use...

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New ingredients in my workshop: Cucumber hydrosol

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I love cucumbers – they’re one of the only vegetables I will eat as I’m super picky – and I love the smell of them in all kinds of products, so let’s take a look at a water soluble way to use cucumbers in our products in the form of a cucumber hydrosol. The version...

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Emollients you will love: Cucumber seed oil

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The horrible recipe from HGTV we saw yesterday used fresh cucumber juice as the water phase, which is a really terrible idea. If you want to incorporate all the awesome power of cucumber in a formula, consider trying cucumber seed oil. Cucumber seed oil (INCI: Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Oil) is cold pressed and smells absolutely...

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Quick aside: Converting a formula from percentages to weight

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When you see a formula in percentages, simply replace the % sign with the word “grams” and you will have a 100 gram formula. In the formula above, this means you’d have 80 grams shea butter, 19 grams fractionated coconut oil, and 1 gram fragrance oil or essential oil. If you want to have 500...

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Another installment of “for the love of God, please don’t make this!” – HGTV’s homemade cucumber body butter

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Why does Mother’s Day bring out the worst possible formulas for bath & body products from companies who have no business sharing them? Last year we had the wet tea leaf contamination extravaganza from David’s Tea: This year, HGTV put out this recipe for “homemade cucumber body butter”. You can find my post from Facebook...

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