emulsifiers

Weekend Wonderings: Compare and contrast Emulthix and Aristoflex AVC?

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In this post, Emulsifiers: Emulthix, Srjnm asks: How would you compare Emulthix and Aristoflex? I know you have worked with both these cold emulsifiers. When would you use one over the other or what are the pros/cons of each? Which one do you like best? Thank you for sharing your experience with these ingredients. I’ve been...

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Emulsifiers: Emulthix – a light to medium weight lotion with all kinds of botanical ingredients

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Last week, we took a look at Emulthix, a cold process emulsifier. We made a nice, basic lotion with pumpkin seed oil, water, preservative, and emulsifier, then we made it a bit more complicated by adding humectants, proteins, extracts, and more! You know me, though, there’s no way I can stop there! Let’s make a...

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Emulsifiers: Emulthix (aka RM-2051)

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As you may or may not know, I was fortunate enough to visit Jen at Lotioncrafter in April. And it’s taken me quite some time to inventory all the amazing ingredients she gave me before I started crafting with them. One of my new favourites is Emulthix or RM-2051 (INCI: Sodium Polyacrylate (and) Dimethicone (and) Cyclopentasiloxane...

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Emulsifiers: Sepiplus 400 – making an aqueous gel with active ingredients

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On Tuesday, we met Sepiplus 400, an ingredient that can be used to make aqueous gels or cold process lotions! And yesterday we made a basic aqueous gel! Let’s modify it slightly with a fun, new active ingredient. Lotioncrafter is carrying an interesting ingredient called genistein. It’s a phytoestrogen that behaves as an anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory,...

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Emulsifiers: Sepiplus 400 – making an aqueous gel

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As I mentioned yesterday, I introduced you to Sepiplus 400, an emulsifier that can make cold lotions and aqueous or alcoholic gels. Let’s take a look at how we can make aqueous gels with it! It’s a super simple process! BASIC AQUEOUS GEL WITH SEPIPLUS 40096.5% distilled water3% Sepiplus 4000.5% liquid Germall plus Weigh the...

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