Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – all about humectants, part 4! 

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Welcome to part four of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be modifying the water phase of the 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG we met in part three. But first, let’s learn some skin chemistry! Are you playing along? Have you made anything yet? What...

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Chemistry Thursday: Introduction to triglycerides, part 37 of the series

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A row of different oils in plastic bottles. They have different colours ranging from light yellow to dark yellow to clear white and light green.

Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s take a look at the rest of the esters we haven’t covered so far – some are emollients, some are emulsifiers, all are awesome! An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a...

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Lotion making: Altering the ingredients in a basic lotion (an infographic)

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I wanted to share this with you again to help you get started lotion making! With this formula and the instructions on how to make it, you can make dozens – if not hundreds – of variations to find the lotion you love the best! This is such a foolproof structure for a lotion!  Check out...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part three, using 1% emulsifier formulas)

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A white blob of lotion sits on a glass watch glass with a black background

Welcome to part three of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be making a 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG. The way I’m planning this series, we’ll start off by meeting the emulsifiers – which we did last week – then I’ll introduce a new base...

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Chemistry Thursday: Esters – the rest of ’em, part 36

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A cup of clear liquid sits on the edge of the metal plate on a digital scale. This is Cation G16S

Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s take a look at the rest of the esters we haven’t covered so far – some are emollients, some are emulsifiers, all are awesome! An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a...

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