Emulsifiers: Emulthix – a light, cold process lotion with white tea, pumpkin seed oil, and baobab protein

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You know I can’t leave well enough alone, so I thought I’d take yesterday’s Emulthix recipe and add some of my favourite ingredients to take it from great to fan-freakin’-tastic! Want to know more about Emulthix? Cick here!  Let’s alter my heated water phase first. I’m adding a humectant – sodium lactate – along with...

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Subscribers’ exclusive: Bumble & Bumble Surf Spray

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Thanks to Stellar Blew for this suggestion! If you have an idea, check out this month’s duplicating post and share your favourite product! I went a little nuts trying duplications for products this month, so I’m posting this, along with the Noxzema Classic Clean, Neutrogena Hydro Blast Water Gel, Laneige Sleeping Pack, and a primer that...

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Emulsifiers: Emulthix – a cold process lotion recipe

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Yesterday, we said “hello!” to Emulthix, a cold process emulsifier that can handle quite high levels of oils. I thought I’d try making a basic lotion with only one oil – pumpkin seed oil, one of my favourites – and see what I thought of the viscosity! EMULTHIX LOTION WITH PUMPKIN SEED OILOIL PHASE20% pumpkin...

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Emulsifiers: Emulthix (aka RM-2051)

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As you may or may not know, I was fortunate enough to visit Jen at Lotioncrafter in April. And it’s taken me quite some time to inventory all the amazing ingredients she gave me before I started crafting with them. One of my new favourites is Emulthix or RM-2051 (INCI: Sodium Polyacrylate (and) Dimethicone (and) Cyclopentasiloxane...

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Weekend Wonderings: Adding clay to a lotion?

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In this post, Modifying our lotions into creams, Dawn asks: I’d like to use your thick cream recipe and add bentonite and kaolin clay to make it an exfoliating foot scrub. Can I simply add the clays to the finished cream at safe usage rates? Adding clay really can be as easy as adding a certain...

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