Formulas

Formula

A ton o’ links for foaming facial cleanser formulas you’ll find here on the site…

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A clear glass foamer bottle with a light yellow liquid sits atop a digital scale

I’ve had a lot of requests for facial cleansers over the last few months, and I thought I’d quickly share with you some of my favourite foamy, bubbly, lathery™ cleansers. As a note, almost every formula on this site using surfactants is sulfate-free. I have a few Lush products I duplicated that contain sodium coco...

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Having trouble with Montanov™ & Olivem 1000 emulsifiers? The soaping effect – six facial moisturizer formulas with esters, hydrocarbons, and silicones (part nine)

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Welcome to part nine of this series on troubleshooting Montanov™ emulsifiers! In today’s post, we’ll look at the facial moisturizer formulas we started to create in part eight using esters, hydrocarbons, and silicones as our emollients to create something super smooth, light, and easy to spread, which will avoid soaping! Woo hoo! This post also applies...

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Having trouble with Montanov™ & Olivem 1000 emulsifiers? Let’s look at making our formulas less soaping by using solid or simple esters, like Lauryl Laurate or cetyl esters (part five, modifying the formula)

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Today, in part five of this series, we’ll be looking at the hand & body base formula and modifying them to include esters as our structuring agents. These can have a lower melting point than the fatty alcohols and acids, plus they have lower surface tension, which we know can reduce soaping. This post also...

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Having trouble with Montanov™ & Olivem 1000 emulsifiers? Let’s look at making our formulas less soaping by altering the structuring agents (part four, includes base hand & body lotion formula and modified formula)

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Today, in part four of this series, we’ll be looking at two formulas – one that soaps quite a bit and one that doesn’t – then we’ll compare and contrast them (because I know how much we loved doing that when we were in school, eh?) This post also applies to Olivem 1000 as they...

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Having trouble with Montanov™ & Olivem 1000 emulsifiers? What we know about the soaping effect and what we can do and some information on liquid crystal emulsions (part three)

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A pile of white, waxy Montanov™ 202 pellets. This is an emulsifier.

Welcome to part three of this series on working with Montanov™ emulsifiers! This post also applies to Olivem 1000 as they use similar emulsifiers as the Montanov™ series. In part one, we looked at the proper process to make one of these emulsions with example formulas. We learned the key is to follow the formula...

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