emulsifiers

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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Q&A: How do we use solubilizers? Do we need them in products that already have an emulsifier?

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In the monthly Q&A, Kara asked, Hi there! I am trying to learn more about the chemistry of creating body products, and I have a clarifying questions on emulsifiers vs. solubilizers. Based on my reading here, it seems like solubilizers are used in a water-based product for small amounts of oil-based things such as fragrance...

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10 minute emulsions: Creating a natural, slightly thicker, non-greasy cationic lotion with all kinds of esters (part seven – questions you may have and more!)

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Yes, I know I should come up with better names for my formulas, but this tells you what you need to know – it’s a slightly thicker, non greasy cationic lotion that you can make in about 10 minutes!  You don’t need to use a ton of oils and butters to make something thicker that...

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