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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – adding some actives and increasing the emulsifiers (part 5 with formulas)

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Welcome to part five of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be creating a 2% emulsions with the humectants from last week with a few active ingredients, like panthenol, niacinamide, and allantoin. We’ll be adapting the formula to include a heated water phase as well. First, we’ll look...

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Chemistry Thursday: More about triglycerides, including looking at some triglyceride profiles, part 38 of the series

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s continue our investigation into triglycerides with part 38 of this series. This week, we’ll look at why knowing the triglyceride profile of an oil or butter is so important, then we’ll look at the triglyceride profiles of apricot kernel oil, rice bran oil, cocoa butter,...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – all about humectants, part 4! 

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Welcome to part four of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be modifying the water phase of the 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG we met in part three. But first, let’s learn some skin chemistry! Are you playing along? Have you made anything yet? What...

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Chemistry Thursday: Introduction to triglycerides, part 37 of the series

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Welcome back to this introduction to cosmetic chemistry course! Let’s take a look at the rest of the esters we haven’t covered so far – some are emollients, some are emulsifiers, all are awesome! An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to take a...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part three, using 1% emulsifier formulas)

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Welcome to part three of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be making a 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG. The way I’m planning this series, we’ll start off by meeting the emulsifiers – which we did last week – then I’ll introduce a new base...

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