Honeyquat in skin care products

Now you know everything there is to know about honeyquat…how do we incorporate it into our products? Honeyquat is best used at 5% or lower in your creations, although I do prefer 2 to 3%. You can include it in body washes and toners (see below), and lotions. Adding it to your creations offers you...

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Better crafting through chemistry: Honeyquat (updated)

So what exactly is honeyquat and how do you use it? Honeyquat is a cationic quaternary polymer – meaning it is a positively charged conditioning agent. It is different than the Incroquat BTMS that we have been using in hair care products in that it is a polymer and not a cationic compound, like the...

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Mineral make up – Part 10: Using blue iron oxide to make blue

This is the blue iron oxide on paper. Behold its mighty power to colour everything it sees, including your hands! So be sparing with it in your eye shadows! As you saw in the last post on MMU, you can use base and micas to get a nice, translucent, shiny blue. But perhaps you’re not...

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Better crafting through chemistry: Occlusion (updated)

What the heck is occlusion? This is the way we prevent transepidermal water loss (TEWL) from our skin. (From Wikipedia: TEWL is defined as the measurement of the quantity of water that passes from inside a body through the epidermal layer – skin – to the surrounding atmosphere via diffusion and evaporation processes.) We want...

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Better crafting through chemistry: Emollients

Isn’t this a beautiful molecule? It’s castor oil! This is a triglyceride – three fatty acids connected to a backbone of glycerol (glycerin) – the 3 oxygen atoms at the top. The zig zaggy lines indicate a carbon molecule and the OH are the hydroxyl groups we saw in yesterday’s post. Finally, the double lines...

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