emulsifiers

Making quick lotions with SIMULGEL EG – a video from Lotioncrafter!

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Yesterday, we met SIMULGEL™ EG (INCI: Sodium Acrylate / Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer & Isohexadecane & Polysorbate 80), a liquid, cold process emulsifier that creates light-feeling, matte, non-tacky, non-sticky, non-greasy emulsions, gels, and gel-creams in minutes that range in viscosity from lighter lotions, eye creams and gels, and facial moisturizers to hand & body lotions to...

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#alltheingredients: SIMULGEL™ EG (INCI: Sodium Acrylate / Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer & Isohexadecane & Polysorbate 80) – liquid, cold process emulsifier

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I realized as I was getting ready to share a gorgeous, super quick and easy to make hydrating eye magic gel-cream, I hadn’t shared the star of the show – SIMULGEL™️ EG, a cold process, polymeric emulsifier that can make a fabulous product in less than 5 minutes. The sensory characteristics are awesome – light...

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Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™): Making an oily gel with this ingredient – the first formula!

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A hand holds a pipette over a beaker with a brown mixture in it

Welcome back to this series on making oily gels with Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™)! We’ll be making these in my upcoming Zoom workshop on Sunday, February 23, 2025! Click here to learn more!  We met this ingredient – Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™) – in our first post. In part two, we looked at how to...

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Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™): Making an oily gel with this ingredient – the process!

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A collage of four photos demonstrating how to make oily gels with Sapogel Q. The upper left shows a beaker with clear brown liquid, the Sapogel. The upper right, a hand using a pipette to add oil to a beaker under an overhead mixer. The lower left the finished thick, yellow, oily gel in a beaker with a spoon. The lower right shows 10 small glass jars with an array of different coloured oily gels, from clear to yellow and opaque.

Welcome back to this series on making oily gels with Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™)! We met this ingredient – Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™) – in our first post. In today’s post, let’s find out how to work with it! Before we start… If you’d like to see a video of this process, click here to...

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#alltheingredients: Sapogel Q (aka NatraSap Q™) – creator of oily gels!

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Because we’ll be holding our first Zoom workshop of 2025 the last weekend of February on creating oily gels with Sapogel Q, Sucragel, and (possibly) sodium surfactin, I thought I’d share a series on each of these ingredients. If you were an Innovation level subscriber in September 2021, you would have received the e-book, Creating...

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