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#alltheingredients: Fision® Instant Lift (INCI: Water, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Acacia Senegal Gum, Xanthan Gum) – active, cosmeceutical for making skin feel “lifted”

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If you’ve seen ads for products that promise to firm and lift your skin instantly when you use them, they’re probably using this ingredient or Pepha-Tight®️ CB. As it dries, it creates it creates a film that tightens to make skin appear smoother. The hydrolyzed soy protein hydrates skin by forming a film, too. Because...

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#alltheingredients: Sepigel 305™ (INCI: Polyacrylamide (and) C13-14 Isoparaffin (and) Laureth-7) – cold process liquid emulsifier – updated January 20, 2026

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Woo hoo! We’re starting our cold process emulsifier series this Friday, January 9th, 2026, so I thought I’d update this profile of Sepigel™ 305, which we’re using with or instead of Sepiplus™ 400. Let’s take a look at this one today, then the other on Friday.  Sepigel 305™ (INCI: Polyacrylamide (and) C13-14 Isoalkane (formerly Isoparaffin)...

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#alltheingredients: XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract) – hair and scalp active

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A bottle of XYLISHINE™ beside a beaker of thicker, clear, yellow liquid, which is XYLISHINE™™. They sit on a wooden shelf with a number of beakers behind them

XYLISHINE™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Maltitol (and) Xylitol (and) Pelvetia Canaliculata Extract) is thick, odourless, non-sticky, non-tacky yellow liquid, a natural combination of humectants and brown algae extract that offers all kinds of awesome properties to our hair and scalp care products. It’s like AQUAXYL™ (INCI: Xylitylglucoside (and) Anhydroxylitol (and) Xylitol) with the addition...

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Emulsifiers you will love: Sodium stearoyl glutamate (aka Eumulgin SG), part two – basic lotion formula #1

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Welcome to part two of this short series on using Eumulgin SG (INCI: Sodium stearoyl glutamate), a strongly anionic (negatively charged) emulsifier that offers a light or “nude” skin sensations, creating non-greasy, non-waxy, emulsions. Find part one here – Emulsifiers you will love: Sodium stearoyl glutamate (aka Eumulgin SG), ingredient profile post.  It’s naturally compliant...

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Emulsifiers you will love: Sodium stearoyl glutamate (aka Eumulgin SG) – naturally compliant emulsifier: Introduction to the ingredient (part one)

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A beaker with a white powder - an emulsifier called Eumulgin - sits on the edge of a digital scale.

As we’re working towards a few different duplicates of the Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, let’s take a look at one of the three emulsifiers*, Eumulgin SG (INCI: Sodium stearoyl glutamate), a strongly anionic (negatively charged) emulsifier that offers a light or “nude” skin sensations, creating non-greasy, non-waxy, emulsions. *The emulsifiers in the Bum Bum cream...

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