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Unfortunately, I’m in a rush this morning with two craft groups to prepare for today, so analyzing how to make yesterday’s cream drier will have to wait until the weekend! Not all lotions with 60% water will end up as a body butter or foot cream. I make what I consider a very nice hand...
There are reasons to follow the rules in making bath & body products, the main one being that you want to make awesome products. The other one is safety. I know all these lectures on safety can get a bit boring at times – believe me, I roll my eyes at all the “you’re going...
The recipe I posted yesterday for a foot cream can be modified in so many different ways, it would take us weeks just to get through those variations we could make using soybean oil as the main oil! It’s all about your preferences and supplies – what you see here reflects what I have in...
I find one of the quickest ways to turn a lotion into a cream is to substitute stearic acid for cetyl alcohol. Fatty acids tend to increase the thickness of our products better than the fatty alcohols, although you will experience a decrease in the slip and glide of the product and might even get...
What if you want to increase your oil phase further? You have two choices – you can choose another recipe that has a higher oil phase and a lower water phase or you can modify your recipe to increase the oils and emulsifier. Let’s say we take the recipe from the other day, the less...