Beginners

January 14th, 2020: Shopping lists for ingredients, supplies, and packaging as well as optional components. Tuesday, January 21st, 2020: We took a look at the general formula we’ll be using for the hand lotions. I explained the formula, the chemistry of lotions, the reason we use preservatives, and the sensory characteristics we can expect with Ritamulse...

Welcome to week two of the Newbie Tuesday series, making naturally compliant lotions with Ritamulse SCG. Today, we’ll be taking a look at the chemistry of lotions along with the first formula. Please click here for week one of this series, which includes the shopping list for supplies, equipment, and packaging. And a few resources…...

Woo! It’s back! Newbie Tuesday is back and we’re ready to make some lotions using naturally compliant emulsifiers. For the first part of this series/course, we’ll be using Ritamulse SCG (INCI: Glyceryl stearate (and) cetearyl alcohol (and) sodium stearoyl lactylate) to create hand lotions, body lotions, and body butters. For this series/course, I’m choosing ingredients I...