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Formulating Friday: Creating facial moisturizers with Incroquat BTMS-50

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Welcome to our last entry in the Formulating Friday lotion making series/course using Incroquat BTMS-50 – making a facial moisturizer! Wow, I can’t believe we’ve made it to the end! Let’s modify our formula to include all the lovely anti-oxidants, humectants, chelating ingredients, and silicones we’ve used in this series and the previous ones to...

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What’s this in my stocking? A lip balm instructional handout? Thanks, advent calendar fairy!

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The advent calendar fairy crept into my house last night and left this PDF for you, the handout for lip balms from my Handmade Christmas class I would normally teach at Voyageur Soap & Candle this time of year. Since the apocalypse has made it impossible to teach in person, I thought I’d share this...

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Newbie Tuesday: Creating facial moisturizers with Incroquat BTMS-50

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Welcome back to our Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series, this one focusing on making lotions, body butters, creams, and moisturizers with Incroquat BTMS-50. This week, we’re making a facial moisturizer, a light, powdery, non-greasy lotion with some awesome oils, like squalane. Previous posts & links for this series!  If you don’t know much about...

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Formulating Friday: Creating creams with Incroquat BTMS-50 (part two, altering the increased oil phase)

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In yesterday’s post, we looked at how to increase the oil phase and modify the amount of emulsifier in our Incroquat BTMS-50 cream. Today, let’s look at modifying the formula to include ingredients to increase hydration, slip and glide, and reduce soaping. Please see yesterday’s post for all the links to previous formulas and the...

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Formulating Friday: Creating creams with Incroquat BTMS-50 (part one, increasing the oil phase)

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Welcome to this week’s Formulating Friday advanced lotion making series/course in which we’ll be modifying last week’s body butter to be a cream. In last week’s body butter post, I showed you how to modify the hand & body lotion to become a body butter by substituting butters for oils. In this week’s Newbie Tuesday...

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