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Creating a 10 minute, natural hand & body lotion with babassu & amaranth oil  – part two, formula with humectants

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A Pyrex container with white creamy lotion in it

Welcome back to this short series in which we’re making variations on my favourite 10 minute cationic 99% natural lotion with extra humectants and different oils. In today’s version, we’ll add a few things and use amaranth oil to make this a bit thicker, richer, and more lubricious! Click here for the first post in...

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Creating a 10 minute, natural hand & body lotion with babassu & amaranth oil – part one, original formula, sensory characteristics, choosing preservatives, and more!

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What the heck is going on with my skin? ARGH! It was early winter, a time when it’s generally super humid around here as it rains every day for at least a few minutes, so why am I so dry and itchy? I wracked my brain for far too long before realizing that I’d been...

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Q&A: Can we modify a body butter formula to include Jeequat® NDCS as the natural, cold process emulsifier?

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In this month’s Q&A, Jaime asked, What percentage of oils can be handled by Jeequat® NDCS (aka ICE Conditioner)? I’d like to make your body butter that you made for your husband’s itchy skin. If ICE Conditioner won’t work, will any of the other cold natural approved emulsifiers work? Thank you. This is funny as I...

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Facial products: Anhydrous facial serum with squalane & carrot tissue oil with l-ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) – formula

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This might be the most popular formula I’ve shared with friends and testers over the last year, my vitamin packed facial serum with squalane & carrot tissue oil. We first made it during the Sunday, July 19th, 2020, Zoom workshop on solubility, and I fear the formula might be lost in the links for that...

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Creating facial moisturizers with active ingredients: Ceramide Complex

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This post and formula is kinda an extension of last week’s Formulating Friday in which we made a facial moisturizer with the emulsifier Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 as we’re modifying those formulas, but you don’t have to be following the series to make these. If you’d like to learn more about each ingredient and why we’re using them...

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