Let’s make a naturally compliant lotion with “fragile” oils in the heated phase – Olivem 1000

A fluffy white lotion in a beaker. We used Olivem 1000 for this formula!

As there was quite a lot of interest in this post – Demythifying the myths: Fancy oils are not sensitive to heat – you can put them in the heated oil phase – and we had a great conversation over there about the topic, I thought we’d create a bunch of different awesome emulsified and anhydrous...

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Q&A: How to create a solid dish washing bar (with formulas)?

In the monthly Q&A, Jen asked, Howdy Folks. I am working on formulating a dish block–ie a syndet bar for hand-washing dishes. This would be only for my own use. I’m not looking to be an entrepreneur though it looks like this is a category that will be growing due to it being more environmentally...

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Definitely check out Lotioncrafter’s YouTube & Instagram accounts for tutorials and free formulas!

It’s no secret I love Lotioncrafter (USA)! Jen, the owner, is an amazing person and businesswoman, and Jaimie the chemist is an awesome chemist and very interesting woman who loves chemistry as much as I do! The staff there are awesome, and the ingredients are beyond compare. They very kindly offer a discount coupon to...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – all about humectants, part 4! 

Welcome to part four of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be modifying the water phase of the 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG we met in part three. But first, let’s learn some skin chemistry! Are you playing along? Have you made anything yet? What...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part three, using 1% emulsifier formulas)

A white blob of lotion sits on a glass watch glass with a black background

Welcome to part three of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be making a 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG. The way I’m planning this series, we’ll start off by meeting the emulsifiers – which we did last week – then I’ll introduce a new base...

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