emulsifiers

We’ve met a few new emulsifiers this month – Sucragel AOF and Ritamulse SCG – but how do you convert your favourite recipe to use these new emulsifiers? Let’s take a sample recipe and see how we might use it with different emulsifiers! SAMPLE LOTION RECIPEHEATED WATER PHASE60.75% water3% glycerin0.5% allantoin HEATED OIL PHASE20% oils, butters,...

I’m going to leave you to figure out some things we can include in our all natural lotion using Ritamulse SCG for a few more days…In the meantime, could we make a nice hand lotion with Ritamulse SCG? Of course! Let’s take a look at our basic lotion recipe for using this emulsifier and make...

One of the reasons to use Ritamulse SCG is the Ecocert label attached to it. So let’s see if we can make a lotion using mostly natural/Ecocert ingredients. What is Ecocert? It’s a certification process that assures that the ingredients we use are 95% natural and 10% organic, and that they are made using sustainable...

We took a look at making a body butter with Ritamulse SCG yesterday – let’s take a look at making thicker creams with this emulsifier. As I mentioned yesterday, the big difference between body butter and a thick cream are the names. In general, they both have a 60% to 65% water phase, and they...

We can use Ritamulse SCG to make anything from light lotions with 80% water to body butters with 60% water. We took a look at the 70% water recipe yesterday, so let’s make a thick cream or body butter today. The big difference is the amount of oils in the product. Let’s use the full...