Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 5 Choosing humectants

Choosing humectants! We’re moisturizing our skin by adding all kinds of lovely emollients, so let’s so we’ll add some humectants to help with hydrating our parched skin. We can add 3% glycerin, propanediol 1,3, or propylene glycol to help draw water from the atmosphere to the skin to hydrate it, so let’s do that. We...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 4 Choosing the water soluble ingredients

4. Choosing the water soluble ingredients Let’s take a quick look at the formula so far!  5% isododecane, dodecane, light liquid ester, hydrocarbon, cyclomethicone, or fractionated coconut oil5% babassu oil (or substitute coconut oil or butter of choice)5% macadamia nut oil, evening primrose oil, fractionated coconut oil, or camellia oil10% rice bran oilup to 0.5%...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 3 Choosing the liquid emollients!

3. Choosing the liquid emollients! Let’s use one fast spreading emollient with one or two medium emollients to create something pretty special! I really love pumpkin seed oil in a lot of my hand and body lotions as it offers a lovely medium spreading, just slightly greasy, non-tacky, non-draggy, non-waxy skin feel that lasts on...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – part 2

2. Choosing a solid oil or butter For the custard, I decided to use some of my favourite emollients, including babassu oil, which will increase viscosity in the container at room temperature while melting on our skin at body temperature to give us a wonderful, silky, non-greasy, slightly occlusive layer, something we’ll feel on our...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – part 1

1. Meet the emulsifier
Everything is telling you that it’s the LAST MINUTE to get those LAST MINUTE gifts for Christmas even though you waited until what can only be described as the VERY LAST MINUTE on December 22nd, so I thought I’d share with you a formula you can make in less than 30 minutes

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