Formulas

Formula

Here are a few of my favourite lotion formulas!

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If your hands are anything like mine, they’re parched from all the hand washing and sanitizing. I use the mildest surfactants I can find at the lowest effective percentages combined with all kinds of wonderful emollients and conditioners, but even still they feel so cracked and sore. To prevent all kinds of dry skin, here...

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10 minute lotions: Hydrating strawberry smoothie with ViscOptima SE (part two, formula)

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On Monday, we met one of my favourite new cold process oil-in-water emulsifiers, ViscOptima SE (INCI: Sodium polyacrylate, ethylhexyl cocoate, PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate, polysorbate 20), which you might find as GelMaker RHEO from Making Cosmetics, and yesterday, we reviewed the ingredients we might use in a super hydrating, cold process, strawberry smoothie cream suitable...

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Goin’ on a holiday: Super hydrating body wash with loads of humectants – reviewing the formula (part five)

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Three images of a pink bubble bath over three days. The clarity alters over the three days, becoming clearer over time.

You can see in the photo above, this product eventually becomes really clear. This can change based on the fragrance/essential oil. In this version, I used  Honey I washed the kids (Lush duplicate) fragrance oil with a few drops fuchsia LabColours.  In part one, we took a look at the surfactants for this body wash....

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Goin’ on a holiday: Super hydrating body wash with loads of humectants – the colour & scent phase, thickening, and the formula (part four)

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Before we start, the photo above is day three/four of the body wash, and you can see it’s crystal clear. All the bubbles are gone, even though it was bouncing around in the cargo of a few different planes for quite a while.  In part one, we took a look at the surfactants for this...

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Goin’ on a holiday: Super hydrating body wash with loads of humectants – the humectants (part three)

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Before we start, the photo above is of the body wash on day two. The bubbles are floating to the top, so the clarity is increasing!  In part one of this series, we took a look at the surfactants we want to use for this formula, then we looked at the rest of the ingredients...

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