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Creating creamy facial cleansing milks with Sensolene® or isopropyl isostearate (IPIS), part three – creating a cold process emulsion with Jeesperse® ICE-T-LB-T-NS (part two of two, the formula!)

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Welcome back to part three of this short series on creating a cold process creamy facial cleansing milk with Sensolene® or isopropyl isostearate (IPIS) in which we’ll be finishing up the formula we created using Jeesperse® ICE-T-LB-T-NS. Find part one by clicking here. Find part two by clicking here!  We altered the emulsifier, emollients, and preservatives...

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Creating creamy facial cleansing milks with Sensolene® or isopropyl isostearate (IPIS), part two – creating a cold process emulsion with Jeesperse® ICE-T-LB-T-NS (part one of two)

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We’ve been having some fun creating formulas with Sensolene® – so far we’ve made an anhydrous facial serum and a creamy chamomile & aloe vera facial cleansing milk with Sensolene® with a few different emulsifiers – so I thought we could modify the latter formula to use cold process emulsifiers and a few different emollients....

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Creating creamy facial cleansing milks with Sensolene® or isopropyl isostearate (IPIS), part one – creating a warm process emulsion with Simulgreen 18-2, Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165, Polawax, or Montanov 68 MB. 

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We met this awesome ingredient, Sensolene® (INCI: Ethylhexyl olivate), a Guerbet ester, a light, non-greasy emollient that also has some cleansing properties, a few weeks ago, and I thought I’d share some formulas originally published in my e-zine, Shiny Things, Volume 2, so you can start formulating with it. Creamy facial cleansing milk with Sensolene®...

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Creating a vitamin & botanical extract packed anhydrous facial serum with squalane and tropical fruit blend OS (formula)

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On October 22nd, we met this gorgeous, decadent tropical fruit blend OS, an oil soluble blend of five tropical fruits, including coconut, kakadu plum, passionfruit, blueberry, and banana used at 1% to 10% in anhydrous products – those without water, like whipped shea butter or lip balms – or in the oil phase of an...

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Q&A: My lotion keeps separating and I’m frustrated! What can I do? (Part two)

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A jug with a separated lotion in it - the oil phase floating on the top, the water phase floating on the bottom

Welcome back to part two of this look at how we could modify a lotion formula that’s causing VeryBerry to tear their hair out as it keeps separating! Yesterday, in part one, we looked at the issues that might be causing the lotion fails. Today, we’ll create a stable formula VeryBerry can try to see...

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