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I’ve received quite a few emails lately from people wanting to know how to preserve or make their sugar or salt scrubs that contain things like aloe vera or coconut milk. I’m not sure where you’re finding these recipes, but you really can’t have a water based sugar or salt scrub! It’s all about solubility. Sugar...
As I mentioned the other day, I’ve been playing with Lipidthix to make a butter out of an oil. In Thursday’s post, I combined rice bran oil with 20% Lipidthix to make a rice bran oil butter. I liked it, but it was thinner than I wanted. So I thought I’d play around with a...
As we saw yesterday, Lipidthix is a powder we can add to our oils to create butters out of them. Why would we want to do this? So we can have something like jojoba butter or soy butter or any other oil we like butter that we can use as something like a whipped butter...
Lipidthix (INCI Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) is an oil soluble vegetable oil that has been hydrogenated into a powdered form. It thickens oil soluble products and can make butters by adding it to oils. (It’s recommended at 20% Lipidthix with 80% oils to make a buttery version of the oil.) As an aside, if you get...
I’m still experimenting with cera bellina, and I thought I’d try this recipe I found on the translated site of the Aroma Zone and I thought I’d try it. It goes like this…. AROMA ZONE RECIPE – SHEA BUTTER & OIL WITH CERA BELLINA10% shea butter13% cera bellina76.50% macadamia nut oil0.5% fragrance oil I decided...