Let’s make a six ingredient lotion – an easily customizable kukui nut & babassu oil lotion with Polawax or Natragem EW (part one) 

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I’d like to turn this into a weekly series in January or February, so let’s take a look at the idea of making a simple six ingredient lotion using Polawax or Natagem EW today. I’d love to hear from you what you’d like to make, so please share your thoughts in the comments or message...

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Welcome to December 2025!

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A small black and white Havanese dog named Sasja sits on a grey lounge chair wearing a grey and white sweater and a green and red scarf.

Welcome to December – the best month of the year! This month has so many of my favourite celebrations – my mum’s birthday (today), Sasja’s gotcha day (16th), my dating anniversary with Raymond (19th, 32 years), my birthday (21st), Christmas (25th), and New Year’s Eve (31st), which is also the day I was adopted, something … Read more

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Hi, everyone. Hope your November is going well. I’m so sorry, but I couldn’t get an e-book out this month. I’ve been really struggling with my health for the last five or so weeks, and I just couldn’t finish anything in time. I have a few drafts going at once, but the lack of sleep...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – increasing the viscosity by adding a butter (part 7 with formulas and new instructions)

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A white plastic weighing boat contains some cream coloured chunks of tucuma butter. The boat is sitting on a red tablecloth.

Welcome to part seven of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll look at how to increase the viscosity by adding oil-soluble solid-at-room temperature ingredients by creating a new heated oil phase for the formula. In our last post on October 31, 2025,  we looked at increasing the viscosity...

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