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What have we learned from making loads of different products with Incroquat BTMS-50? It’s a versatile ingredient. We can use it as a conditioning agent as it has a positive charge. We can use it as an emulsifier as it will bring oils and water together. We can use it as a thickener and stiffener...
Way back when I asked if you wanted to share what interested you, AMJ suggested that I write a few posts detailing ten different ways to use an ingredient in our products. I think this is a super idea, so let’s take a look at ten different ways we can use Incroquat BTMS-50 in our...
Let’s take a look a today at a recipe using Montanov 68 as the emulsifier. As we learned last week, this emulsifier creates a liquid crystal emulsion, which can be a good thing for delivering actives to our skin and reducing transepidermal water loss. I decided to use this emulsifier with a lotion recipe I’ve...
I recently tried some experimenting with a few new emulsifiers, Olivem 1000 and Montanov 68 (aka Sugarmulse at one supplier), and thought I’d share those experiences with you. These are new and interesting emulsifiers that create liquid crystal emulsions, which are quite different than the oil-and-water emulsions we’re accustomed to making with something like Polawax,...
Lotionpro 165 (INCI Glyceryl Stearate (and) PEG 100 Stearate) an all-in-one non-ionic emulsifier based on the HLB system used in our heated oil phase to emulsify water and oil together to creation lotions and other emulsified products. It has an HLB value of about 11.2. (You don’t need to know this in order to use it, but...