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Welcome back to the Newbie Tuesday introduction to lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). Today, we’ll be making a thicker, more moisturizing, more occlusive body butter with this emulsifier along with the ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list (click here for more information). Click here for...
A massive, huge, giant thank you to Monica, Tiffany, and Chris for the images you’re seeing in this post and in this series! Monica created the one in the header; Tiffany, the second photo with the coloured lotions and spatulae; and Chris, the third photo with the yellowy custardy lotions with sea buckthorn oil. They’ve been...
Welcome back to the Newbie Tuesday introduction to lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). Today, we’ll be making another hand & body lotion type emulsion using this emulsifier along with the ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list (click here for more information). Click here for part...
Welcome back to the Newbie Tuesday introduction to lotion making course/series using Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate). Today, we’ll be making a hand & body lotion type emulsion using this emulsifier along with the ingredients I suggested you buy in the shopping list (click here for more information). Click here for part...
Welcome to part two of our introduction to the Simulsol/Lotionpro™ lotion making series/course for both the beginners’ Newbie Tuesday series/course and the more advanced Formulating Friday series/course. Yesterday, we met the emulsifier and looked at how to formulate with it, so today we’re looking at the thickeners and rheology modifiers we’re using for our formulas,...