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#alltheingredients: Pentylene glycol – humectant, preservative booster, and reducer of water activity

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Pentylene glycol. A clear liquid in a shot glass seen from above, sitting on a silver metal plate of a scale

Woo hoo! Windy Point Soap Making Supplies (Canada) has pentylene glycol (1,2-pentanediol)*, a multifunctional, water-soluble liquid that works as a humectant, preservative for bacteria, preservative booster, solubilizer, solvent, and ingredient that’ll enhance the performance of actives, like our cosmeceuticals, vitamins, proteins, and peptides. It’s not sticky like some other humectants, and it can increase the...

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#alltheingredients: Sodium PCA – an awesome humectant!

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Sodium PCA in a cup. It's a clear liquid in a shot glass on a metal scale.

We have a great question about sodium PCA in the monthly Q&A that I want to answer in greater detail, but first we need to learn about this awesome humectant we find as part of the natural moisturizing factor (NMF) in our skin. It’s so awesome, it’s more awesome than glycerin without being sticky! It’s...

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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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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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