Weekday Wonderings: How much oil will Lotionpro 165 emulsify?

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In this post, Emulsifiers: Lotionpro 165 in a lotion, Alana asks: Can LotionPro emulsify 38% shea butter and 3% stearic acid along with 3% menthol crystals? What is the max capacity of this emulsifier to emulsify oils? As Lotionpro 165 (aka Simulsol 165) is an oil-in-water emulsifier, we know the oil phase has to be...

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Subscriber exclusive: Reviewing the first attempt at Noxzema Classic Clean

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Reviewing the first attempt at Noxzema Classic Clean $1+ patrons Aug 9, 2016 at 11:32am In step five of our duplicating products posts, I came up with a prototype recipe for Noxzema Classic Clean. It was a failure. I hate this recipe. I couldn’t even give this away as people would not accept it as...

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Newbie Tuesday: Facial products series – A shopping list

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Sorry for the delay in posting the ingredients you’ll want to get for the first few projects for our Newbie Tuesday facial products series. The plan is to make these products… Facial cleanser Foaming facial cleanser Exfoliating facial cleanser Micellar water Toner And three gels – a gelled toner, serum, and an eye gel We’ll...

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Subscriber exclusive: Duplicating Tata Harper’s Concentrated Brightening Serum (part two)

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Yesterday we took a look at the ingredient list for this serum. Today we’ll take a look at how much of each ingredient we might use and substitutions for things we don’t have. (I recommend you have yesterday’s post available to you in another window so you can refer to it, but I’ll put the ingredient list...

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Subscriber exclusive: Duplicating Tata Harper’s Concentrated Brightening Serum

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Duplicating Tata Harper’s Concentrated Brightening Serum – what’s in it? $1+ patrons Aug 7, 2016 at 10:45am Zandra suggested we take a look at this serum as a possible duplication, so let’s take a look at what’s in it. (Warning: This is really really long…) The links may take you to a variety of places,...

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