Anhydrous

Q&A: Adding extracts and actives to an anhydrous whipped body butter? Part two – using other active ingredients with formulas! 

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Welcome back to this short series on adding extracts and actives to an anhydrous whipped body butter! We started the discussion with part one and enjoyed some formulas. Click here to see that — Q&A: Adding extracts and actives to an anhydrous whipped body butter? Part one – salicylic acid & Octyldodecanol with formulas! In...

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Q&A: Adding extracts and actives to an anhydrous whipped body butter? Part one – salicylic acid & Octyldodecanol with formulas! 

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A photo from above of three types of whipped butters in jars. The top is a whipped shea butter with green jojoba beads. The second, below, is a whipped refined shea butter. The third, beside the second, is a whipped unrefined shea butter.

In the monthly Q&A post, Ebi asked, I have a question… If you only have time for a short answer, I am totally here for it! If you think a longer answer is necessary, as it will benefit the entire community, that’s okay too of course. I’m just starting out with formulating after a looong...

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Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™): Making an oily gel with this ingredient – the first formula!

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A hand holds a pipette over a beaker with a brown mixture in it

Welcome back to this series on making oily gels with Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™)! We’ll be making these in my upcoming Zoom workshop on Sunday, February 23, 2025! Click here to learn more!  We met this ingredient – Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™) – in our first post. In part two, we looked at how to...

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Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™): Making an oily gel with this ingredient – the process!

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A collage of four photos demonstrating how to make oily gels with Sapogel Q. The upper left shows a beaker with clear brown liquid, the Sapogel. The upper right, a hand using a pipette to add oil to a beaker under an overhead mixer. The lower left the finished thick, yellow, oily gel in a beaker with a spoon. The lower right shows 10 small glass jars with an array of different coloured oily gels, from clear to yellow and opaque.

Welcome back to this series on making oily gels with Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™)! We met this ingredient – Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™) – in our first post. In today’s post, let’s find out how to work with it! Before we start… If you’d like to see a video of this process, click here to...

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#alltheingredients: Sapogel Q (aka NatraSap Q™) – creator of oily gels!

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Because we’ll be holding our first Zoom workshop of 2025 the last weekend of February on creating oily gels with Sapogel Q, Sucragel, and (possibly) sodium surfactin, I thought I’d share a series on each of these ingredients. If you were an Innovation level subscriber in September 2021, you would have received the e-book, Creating...

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