Formulating with shea butter – intense hair conditioner

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It’s winter and that means subjecting your hair and skin to the ravages of cold, snow, ice, and wind! Lovely oils and emollients to the rescue! Shea butter is an incredible ingredient to add to an intense conditioner. Many aspects help moisturize your scalp, and the occlusive ingredients offer a layer of moisturizing to protect...

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Evolution of a product…Petra’s attempt #3

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From Petra on her third attempt… I started on this quest because I loved the concept… have a scrub that does not need a preservative, is single use, isn’t oily so it won’t clog the drain, softens reasonably well so that it can be used, nice consistency, and does a good job of scrubbing.I think...

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Formulating with shea butter – whipped shea butter

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I do love shea butter in most of my creations, primarily because it offers great softening and moisturizing qualities and adds slip and glide to pretty much anything! I love shea butter in a whipped body butter. I have tried making whipped butters with with mango – nice, but a little dry – and cocoa...

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Evolution of a product…Swift’s attempt #3

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Okay, so attempt #2 held up well, but it didn’t moisturize enough. So my goal is to increase the moisturization of the product – but it needs to remain hard outside the shower and crumble when used under water. Here’s attempt #3…40% berry sugar (finer grain than white sugar)30% baking soda (Arm & Hammer brand)9%...

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Shea butter! (updated)

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Shea butter is composed of 3 to 7% palmitic acid (C16), 35 to 45% stearic acid (C18), 40 to 55% oleic acid (C18:1), and 3 to 8% linoleic acid (C18:2). With all these saturated fatty acids and a ton of anti-oxidants, we get a soft butter with a great shelf life! (Please note, the region...

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