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Yay! You made conditioner last Newbie Tuesday! Congratulations to those of you who made your first batch. Wasn’t it awesome to see emulsification happen? And wasn’t it fantastic to try it on your hair for the first time. What did you like about it? What do you want to change about it? How was the...
As I mentioned the other day, I’ve been playing with Lipidthix to make a butter out of an oil. In Thursday’s post, I combined rice bran oil with 20% Lipidthix to make a rice bran oil butter. I liked it, but it was thinner than I wanted. So I thought I’d play around with a...
As we saw yesterday, Lipidthix is a powder we can add to our oils to create butters out of them. Why would we want to do this? So we can have something like jojoba butter or soy butter or any other oil we like butter that we can use as something like a whipped butter...
Lipidthix (INCI Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) is an oil soluble vegetable oil that has been hydrogenated into a powdered form. It thickens oil soluble products and can make butters by adding it to oils. (It’s recommended at 20% Lipidthix with 80% oils to make a buttery version of the oil.) As an aside, if you get...
It’s time to stop researching and make a conditioner! You know who you are! You’re the person who spends many many waking moments reading about or thinking about making conditioners, but you’ve never ever made a conditioner! I want you to step away from the computer – after printing the instructions, of course – and...