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Discussion: How are you using cocoa butter? Let’s figure out some substitutions!

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Cocoa butter prices are through the roof – it’s about three times more expensive compared to winter 2023 as the crop has been failing due to climate change and such – and people are looking for substitutions. I thought we could look at how to make these changes, but what we’d use will depend on...

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Emollients you will love? Illipe butter

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I shared a bit about this butter a few years ago, but I’ve been playing with it a lot more lately, so I thought it was time to take a closer look at this hard, brittle butter. Illipe butter (INCI: Shorea Stenoptera (Illipe) Seed Butter) aka Borneo tallow is a hard, white to cream, brittle...

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Formulating with hydrogenated butters: Lime butter

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As I mentioned back in September, I bought a lot of lime butter by accident, so I’ve been formulating with it quite a bit lately. Let’s take a look at this ingredient and other hydrogenated oils/butters before we formulate with it. Lime butter – INCI: Citrus Latifolia Oil (and) Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (and) Tocopherol, according...

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Weekday Wonderings: How can we heat proof an anhydrous butter?

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In this post, Adapting your products for summer, Taryn asked: I make body products and this will be my first summer. What can I do to better safeguard my products from turning into liquid pools while at markets and in the mail? I am just starting out and I am worrying that I may have to take...

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Back to basics: Lotion bars – tweaking the waxes!

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Yesterday we took a look at the basic recipe for lotion bars. You can change the skin feel, melting point, and hardness of a bar by playing with the wax type and amount without changing the type of butters or oils. Although the basic recipe is 1/3 beeswax, 1/3 butter, and 1/3 oil, playing with...

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