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We took a look at a body butter yesterday that contained quite a few ingredients. If I surveyed every recipe on this site – which would number over a thousand! – there would probably be a question on each of them from you, my wonderful readers, on how to make them simpler, how to leave...
One of the things Jen from Lotioncrafter advertises on her blog about this emulsifier is its ability to create a light, fluffy body butter (Body Butter Bliss recipe), so it was only natural to try using it in a body butter that contained quite a lot of shea butter to see how it would work....
We met Lotionpro 165 in yesterday’s post, so it only seems fitting to try it in a lotion recipe today! When I find a new emulsifier, I like to try it out in a product I’ve made many times before so I can compare it directly with my regular emulsifiers like Polawax or Ritamulse SCG....
I bought Lotionpro 165 (INCI Glyceryl Stearate (and) PEG 100 Stearate) from Lotioncrafter a while ago, but I’m finally getting around to playing with it, and it seemed like a great inclusion in the Why the heck did I buy this? series of posts! This emulsifier can be known by a number of different names. The one...
In the What do you want to know post, Katie Z asks: I’ve been wondering what would happen if I used two complete emulsifiers together in one formulation. This came up because I was looking at your emulsified scrub, and it calls for 10% emulsifier. I use Olivem 1000 [INCI: Cetearyl Olivate (and) Sorbitan Olivate], and the...