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There’s a new trend in town – lotion dots! These are lotion bars made in smaller moulds to create one-time-use lotion bars that’ll melt easily on your skin. They’re super easy to make, so let’s take a look at them in this post! How do we make them? Find a great lotion bar formula. Gather...
Join me as we make a gorgeous foamy, bubbly, lathery™ super mild facial cleanser that can remove make-up, oils and sebum, or anything else you might put on your face. We start with our gorgeous foaming apple surfactant, add some humectants to hydrate your skin, a water soluble oil for moisturization, and a conditioner to...
Welcome back to section 2 of this Introduction to cosmetic chemistry series I’m sharing every Thursday. In this, the second section of the introduction to cosmetic chemistry series/source (aka second section), we’re focusing on water soluble ingredients, taking a look at solubility, salts, and polyatomic ions, then we’ll work on acids/bases, pH, and all that...
Woo hoo! We’re back! Sorry about the delay – I needed to figure out what we would be learning next, then write a goodly part of the series so I knew where we were going. We spent a lot of the first part of the series talking about fatty alcohols, fatty acids, esters, oils, solid...
Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides in part 44 by looking at the melting points of various forms of triglycerides in butters, before getting to our fun experiment about the heating and cooling of said butters to see how the way we formulate with them affects their physical properties and sensory characteristics that I’ll be...